i went with a i5 2500 (non k because i dont like overclocking) and it runs like a beast if you want to overclock get the i5 2500k (by the way these two cpus are identical to the i7 2600k apart from the fact that the i7 2600k has hyperthreading and oc where as the i5 2500k has oc but not hyper threading and the i5 2500 has no hyper threading or oc , so yea no point of hyper threading in gaming thats only good for like video editing , my i5 2500 for gmaing still runs everything like a beast no lag low temps amazing