New Builder, need some help.

[iEastwood]

Gaming, thats what i am building for. I need to know what processor would go best with the
ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
with an emphasis on gaming. Thanks for the help.

 

[ksham]

Intel Core i5-4670K.

 

[n1ghtr4v3n]

Intel Core i5-4670K.

+1.

easy peasy!

 

[iEastwood]

Intel Core i5-4670K.

+1.

easy peasy!

Will this allow me to run pretty much any game at high resolution? I am using this video card
SAPPHIRE 100351SR Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX

 

[menetlaus]

Best would be the i7-4770K as already paying over $200 for that motherboard.

Better bang for the buck is the i5-4670K if overclocking.

 

[n1ghtr4v3n]

i5-4670K will run any graphics card at its max performance. So yes. you will run anything on maximum resolution and details as long as the graphics card can handle.
its the best choice not just for your system but any system for these days.

have fun.

edit: gaming wise... 4670k and 4770k has no difference at all, other than the price tag. At least not something visible to human eye, other than synthetic benchmarks... so there is no point paying more for 4770k for gaming purposes.

 

[menetlaus]

See this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

or this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-6.html

Basically every ivy bridge/haswell based cpu sits on the top tier of gaming performance, aka you won't see much difference between the chips. The second link shows an i3-ivy bridge CPU gets ~80% of the performance of the top i7, haswell didn't really change this picture much.

 

[iEastwood]

i5-4670K will run any graphics card at its max performance. So yes. you will run anything on maximum resolution and details as long as the graphics card can handle.
its the best choice not just for your system but any system for these days.

have fun.

edit: gaming wise... 4670k and 4770k has no difference at all, other than the price tag. At least not something visible to human eye, other than synthetic benchmarks... so there is no point paying more for 4770k for gaming purposes.

Thanks man! Your answers were exactly what i was looking for.

 

[menetlaus]

edit: gaming wise... 4670k and 4770k has no difference at all, other than the price tag. At least not something visible to human eye, other than synthetic benchmarks... so there is no point paying more for 4770k for gaming purposes.

That is not true, there are games that make use of hyperthreading and thus the i7 is slightly faster. OP did not ask for any balance with cost, as the question was what is the best for gaming on that motherboard.

 

[ksham]

@menetlaus: How many games do you know of that support Hyper-Threading? There are only a select few.

 

[n1ghtr4v3n]

edit: gaming wise... 4670k and 4770k has no difference at all, other than the price tag. At least not something visible to human eye, other than synthetic benchmarks... so there is no point paying more for 4770k for gaming purposes.

That is not true, there are games that make use of hyperthreading and thus the i7 is slightly faster. OP did not ask for any balance with cost, as the question was what is the best for gaming on that motherboard.

Well... almost all the games in the market optimizing only 1-2 of the actual cores. Hyper threading is something that pushes single core to run two tasks simultaneously. So where would you need hyper thread ? You would need it only when you have an application which is demanding more than 4 active threads. Other than professional tasks, games are not able to utilize all those threads/cores.

I believe what you are trying to say is that single core performance of 4770k is slightly higher than 4670k this is true. But... it is not just because hyper threading, it is also because the extra 2mb secondary cache as it can hold up 2mb more info on standy by to push it on active core for processing. Which you wont even notice in real world.

Yes there difference between these two cpu's, but you wont notice it in games and/or daily tasks, you can only see the difference in synthetics and professional tasks.