Are haswell cpus obsolete?

[2BTech]

I was thinking of getting the i5 4460 because of its higher clock speed but it runs ddr3 memory and im pretty sure they can bottleneck sometimes. Is it worth it?

 

[AppleGwava]

Haswell is only about 10-20 % slower per clock cycle.It will still do the job quite well as it is a i5 quad core.Not like a i3 with hyperthreaded duals.

 

[The Paladin]

I Runs a 4570 with a GTX 970 and I can play any games or do anything right now with this 4 year old pc.
the new systems are only slightly faster, if your choice though is about keeping an 1150 board and upgrade the cpu then go for as fast cpu you can have on it, but if your upgrading a pc, then go for new CPu/MOBO

 

[synphul]

The 4460 has fairly low clock speeds among the 4th gen i5's. If possible I'd try to get at least a 4590. Technically they're outdated but it doesn't mean they're not capable. Usually the price difference between a 4460 and 4590 isn't much, the 4590 is 300mhz faster though. Hard to say without knowing what cpu you're upgrading from.

Keep in mind if comparing to an i3 that there are slight differences, the i3's don't have turbo boost. When they say 3.7ghz that's the speed, when an i5 like the 4460 says 'up to' 3.4ghz that means using turbo boost. You'd see 3.4ghz with only a single core fully under load, once 2, 3 or all 4 cores are at 100% that turbo speed drops a bit, usually to around 3.2ghz. Yes 4 cores are better than 2 with hyper threading but you also have to consider the speed loss with lower end i5's. That's a 500mhz core speed loss from the i3 to i5 so double the cores but the cores are around 14% slower.

 

[madmatt30]

If you're building from scratch go with skylake from the off.
CPU's last forever near enough , motherboards don't.
2 years down the line you will struggle to replace a haswell socket board if it becomes faulty.
At the moment , 'old not obsolete' as Arnie said would be the general concensus.
2 years down the line they'll be both old & obsolete though.
Look how many sandy/ivy CPU's are for sale second hand on eBay ( & those k series chips still perform well today).
Now try & find a decent board to run one on & you'll realise why people aren't keeping those older cpu's