Older i7 vs newer i5

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Stacy_8

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I'm stuck between which CPU would benefit me more, an i5 6500, or an i7 4770S (non k, It's the lower power, "Eco friendly" version of the 4770). I mainly game, go on the internet, and code (I'm a computer science student.) I already have both these CPUs, one I bought when I first built my pc and the other (and its motherboard) was given to me.
 
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They're so close I don't think you'd notice any difference. Mostly a sidegrade.

Here's a comparison of a 4790s (your 4770s is only 100mhz slower) compared to an i5 6600 which is 300mhz faster than the 6500. In other words this comparison shows an even wider difference (if you can call it that) than you'll see between the 4770s and 6500.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1646?vs=1369
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If that is the case, I would probably put the 6500 in your new computer. I mean the 4770 works too, but you are honestly not losing much, since most games are single threaded these days (execept BF1 and a few others).

Not sure if the 4770S can be a true beast since it's probably held back in some areas. Again, I would probably go with the i5, since it wouldn't hurt. Now if you had the regular 4770, I would say go with that hands down.
 
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Yeah, I kind of felt the same way, since this i7 is held back on power and clock speed. But I've tried both out, and really haven't noticed much of a difference. (Except when I ran the two through a Cinnebench benchmark haha). I know the i5 has a slightly higher (0.1 Ghz) base clock, but it has a slower (0.3GHz) boost speed, than the i7. But, it does have newer architecture which I assume makes it relatively better.
 
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the only way you will notice a different between the two is if you do something that can take advantage of the extra threads of the I7 like video editing

 
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They are both close enough for gaming that I would look at the OTHER costs involved. If you are already setup then just stay with what you have otherwise you need a new motherboard, and I believe they use different system memory as well (DDR3 vs DDR4).

*The i7-4770s is hands down the best CPU. I don't need to run to benchmarks I can just estimate. The i5-6500 is clocked about 300MHz lower, but it's newer so let's just call that roughly about the SAME per core.

But... the i7-4770s also has hyperthreading which can help a couple games now, future proofs you better, and for things like converting video it is probably about 30% faster at times.
 
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I'm using DDR3 for both, because the motherboard I have for my 6500 supports DDR3, so the systems for the two are the exact same, except for the CPU. and the most intensive game I play is For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege, so I'm not sure if those take advantage of the extra cores.. I don't video edit; As stated before the most intensive things that I do are gaming and coding.

 
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then the only real reason i would see for getting the I7 is you will get more life out of it down the road for gaming. but the I5 6500 should be good enough

 
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"take advantage of the extra cores..."

Technically they both have FOUR physical cores. What HYPERTHREADING does is allow another thread of code to run on the SAME physical core during the time that the core is waiting for new data.

The games you mention should be identical with both CPU's.
http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/tom-clancys-rainbow-six-siege-pc-performance-analysis/
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http://www.techspot.com/review/1333-for-honor-benchmarks/page3.html

Since it's just a choice of which CPU and not other parts, AND the i7-4770s wins in every scenario (or ties) there's no reason to look further.
 
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