It's Overcloking, really necessary?

Hoyzon

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Well, as the title says. That question intrigues me.

I'm willing to finish the "touchs" on my new Build. I'll be playing some MMO/MOBA Games. I personally think that i don't need a great GPU because, some people says, that these MMO/MOBA are mainly CPU based. Well, i was thinking in get, an i5 4460, or maybe the 4690k. With the i5 4460, i'll be able to fit that in some budget, that will greatly helps me getting a Bigger Monitor, which i wouldn't if i use the i5 4690k, cause i'll be having to look at some Z97 Board to pair with it and uses it's potential. Well, my question is, is the overclock in these newer CPU's really matter ? is the difference that much ? will it make my system last longer ? Thanks guys.
 
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My opinion is that if you have enough cash to get the i5-4690K, then you can afford and should get the Xeon instead, which is essentially an i7 without the igpu. The i3-4160 is close enough to the i5 4460 performance in most games. That pretty much throws the i5s out of the equation. Stick with the H97 unless you are certainly going SLI/CFX. Overclocking on Haswell isn't really necessary nor does Haswell have much headroom on average to make it worthwhile compared to older stuff like Sandy Bridge.
My opinion is that if you have enough cash to get the i5-4690K, then you can afford and should get the Xeon instead, which is essentially an i7 without the igpu. The i3-4160 is close enough to the i5 4460 performance in most games. That pretty much throws the i5s out of the equation. Stick with the H97 unless you are certainly going SLI/CFX. Overclocking on Haswell isn't really necessary nor does Haswell have much headroom on average to make it worthwhile compared to older stuff like Sandy Bridge.
 
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