i5 vs i7 for a developer

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samgamer

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I am trying to decide if I should get an i7 or i5 (non-OC) for my new pc. Both of them are haswell. I am a developer and while I read all about the i5 and i7 differences being mainly cache size and HT. I cannot find any benchmarks to make up my mind. I develop applications for several platforms and I use VirtualBox to test some of them. Is an i5 CPU enough for that? The i5 CPU is at 3.2Ghz while the i7 is at 3.4. What do you think. What should one expect from an i7 over i5. I can put the extra 100-120$ in some other component.

P.S. Will an i7 benefit console emulators like PCSX2?
 
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i7-4770K takes about 83% of the time that an i5-4670K takes as seen in this compile for a Firefox build:

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If you run virtual machines you will be much better served with an i7. Virtual Machines that are assigned multiple logical processors require that all of the logical processors be coscheduled, they must all enter the virtual machine state at the same time. This is easier done with Hyper Threading than without.
 
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samgamer

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I want to know how much time the i7 is going save me when I compile a full project in comparison with an i5 for example. I am trying to make a decision. Though, I am not getting the full information to do so. Thanks for the replies.
 
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