Good i5 haswell gen CPU for gaming?

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Im looking for a good but as cheap as possible i5 haswell gen CPU for gaming. I was thinking about i3 4330 first but i guess i3 dual core isnt enough anymore. Thanks!
 
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The i5-4460 will be perfect. It'll easily run games on max, if paired with a good GPU. It won't hold back your GTX 570 at all.
As for the GTX 570 and 6GB, those are still acceptable specs for games. Don't expect to put Crysis 3 on ultra at 60 fps on a GTX 570, but generally it still holds up well for 95% of games.

I'm actually getting an i3-4360 next, but I have other motives for that besides just performance.
In new and future games an i5-4460 will hold up better.
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The i5-4460 will be perfect. It'll easily run games on max, if paired with a good GPU. It won't hold back your GTX 570 at all.
As for the GTX 570 and 6GB, those are still acceptable specs for games. Don't expect to put Crysis 3 on ultra at 60 fps on a GTX 570, but generally it still holds up well for 95% of games.

I'm actually getting an i3-4360 next, but I have other motives for that besides just performance.
In new and future games an i5-4460 will hold up better.
 
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Thank you, but theres no i5 4460 in stores I was gonna purchase, so can i5 4440 do the job? I was planning an i3 4330 but I see Watch Dogs wont support dual core CPUs and its old. I wasn't planning to put Crysis 3 on ultra anyways. :) I got used playing on medium to low with my old phenom II X4 940/HD4730 PC :D
 
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The GTX 570 is significantly above the GTX 650 TI. The GTX 570 is just a bit weaker than a GTX 660, which itself is a bit weaker than a GTX 580.

But anyway, an i5-4590 or i5-4440 would either work. The i5-4590 would be faster, ofc, but even the i5-4440 will beat most of AMD's gaming CPUs.
 
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That was the answer I was waiting for. Thanks :)
 
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