Worth the extra money for Haswell? i5-3570k vs i5-4690k

bghum

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So I have an i3 Ivy Bridge currently and was wondering if it's even worth spending another $150 buying a new motherboard for haswell and instead just buying a i5-3570k? The motherboard I have now is ASRock Z77 extreme 4.

I mean looking at the price between the two choices I have:

i5-3570k (+heatsink) = ~$260
i5-4690k (+Mobo +heatsink) = ~$400

Worth the extra $150? I'm looking for better performance in CPU intensive games, my i3 is starting to show lack of performance.