i5 4440 or i7 2600k

[bigo8888]

I cuurently own a sandy bridge motberboard and there an i7 2600k I can buy should I get or get an i5 440 with a new haswell board my usage is mostly gaming note I can afford a higher i5 I currently have an hd 770 but will upgrade later to a somthing like a gtx 760 later so dont want any bottleneck

 

[MeteorsRaining]

You already have the MoBo, so feel free to move to i7 2600k, even on stock, 3.8GHz turbo will not bottleneck any given GPU, and i5 4440 will literally be a downgrade both clock speed wise and threading wise.

 

[bigo8888]

So the i7 should give better gaming performances

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... here is a passmark between the two... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-4440+%40+3.10GHz&id=2017
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K+%40+3.40GHz

 

[MeteorsRaining]

So the i7 should give better gaming performances

Yep, w/o doubts, it has better core clock even on stock, and HTs would enhance the lead. Ironsounds produced a good benchmark there

 

[sincreator]

I'd like to add that the 2600k is an unlocked chip, so you can even overclock it further. 4.5ghz should be more than possible with an aftermarket cooler and good enough power supply. I agree with the guys, the 2600k is the best option.

 

[bigo8888]

I wont overclock

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Even w/o OCing, the i7 has much more juice than i5, which's locked at 3.3Ghz.

 

[nikoli707]

the 2600k is a legendary processor. since they overclock farther with less cooling, it would have no problem keeping up with todays 4790k. if your not going to overclock, its still a better choice than any i5. you could just try to find an i5-2400 or 2500k since if this is for gaming there is no benefit from the i7 hyper threading cores, or even an i7-2600 non k version, save a little money. otherwise, any sandy bride i5/i7 or newer does not bottleneck any gpu configuration known today. but dont uproot an entire motherboard if you can just drop a relevant cpu right in.