Which is better for gaming? i5-4670K or i7 2700K

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AlexBournemouth2013
Jesus, point is: Get the i5-3570K or i5-4670K. Both are good CPUs. The 4670K runs hotter, but has better c-state capabilities (i.e. power consumption). Both are about the same price.
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Definitely i5 4670K, as the successor of the famous i5 3570K, the 4670K is really made as an alternative to the 4770K for those who can't afford it, first, the 2700K is an older processor while the 4670K is more recent being last gen. (4th generation), it runs on a different chipset, has more advanced technology, and will offer much better performance. If you can afford a 4770K though, go for it, if not then 4670K would be the better option.
 
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Don't forget the 4670K is two generations ahead, so the 2700K would have to overclock around 15% just to catch up. So a 4670K at 4.2GHz is as fast as a 2700K at 4.8GHz. At that speed, even if it could be achieved, would draw about twice the power of the 4670K. And not to mention, the Z87 motherboards have a lot of extra bells and whistles.

4670K for sure.
 
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Here we go, someone finally understands what I'm saying. Thanks for clarifying babernet.
 
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'Don't forget the 4670K is two generations ahead, so the 2700K would have to overclock around 15% just to catch up. So a 4670K at 4.2GHz is as fast as a 2700K at 4.8GHz. At that speed, even if it could be achieved, would draw about twice the power of the 4670K. And not to mention, the Z87 motherboards have a lot of extra bells and whistles.

4670K for sure.'

100% agreed.
 
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I can overclock my i5-4670K to 4.8 on 1.3V. That is equivalent to 5/5.1 on an i5-3570K. And, that is with air cooling. Temps never go over 85 degrees on maximum setting in Intel Burn Test (5 rounds). But, I have de-lidded.
 
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To be honest, if you had a 2 builds with the same components and just interchanged the (CPU/motherboard) you would never notice a difference.Glad to see you intel fanboys will argue with each other.

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It's been a good read. You all have a good day.

arrpee
 
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LOL! This guy deserves best answer. IMO go for the i5. At least you'll get PCIe 3.0. Which again, doesn't make a difference. Just opens compatibility.
 
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As you can see, it's not unheard of to overclock a 4670K to 4.5GHz. I was being very conservative when I gave the example of 4.2GHz. So, for an average 4670K and a good cooler, you can reach 4.5GHz. That's the same performance of a 2700K at 5.2GHZ. Let me know about you overclocking your 2700K to 5.2GHz without Nitrogen.
 
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Mate, I used to own a 2700K, I know the OC possibilities, I OC'd to 4.8 easily. The user will use it for gaming not world record OCing, you don't need 5 Ghz to play games you know.
 
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Thanks for the input. That's my whole point, a 2700K at 4.8GHZ is a 4670K at 4.2GHz. And you are right. Either is more than fast enough for anything other than the most demanding multi-player games like BF3 with 64 players.
 
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They will both give you the same performance in games. Get the one that's cheaper. Invest any left over money in a better video card instead. Your graphics card(s) solution is where a difference in performance will be noticed.
 
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I think you are just seriously underestimating the 4670K. The 2700K is slightly faster at stock, and benefits from hyper-threading, but the 4670K is much faster per-core, and has lower power consumption. Now, the 4670K one billion % performs better than the 2700K when overclocked. I can get a 4670K to 4.8 and a 2700K (I've had both) to 5.1. If both CPUs were at 4.8, only an idiot would argue the 2700K is faster. The 4670K performs almost as well (much better when pushed to it limits) and identically in games. Aside from hyper-threading (which I turn off, anyway), it is much cheaper with lower power consumption. It, also, has AVX 2.0 which is good.

Why would you buy a product if the price far outweighs the performance? Honestly, only a complete bonehead (re-complete school kinda stupid) would buy a 2700K over a 4670K now. Why would you spend £100 more for about £25 worth of extra performance (that's £75 you could put into a GPU). And, that's not even factoring in the 4670K's lower power consumption and great c-state capabilities.

IDK why so many people here hold onto old hardware, when there are better, cheaper options available. It's the same with nVidia vs AMD. Buy the best card you can afford; it doesn't matter which company. Temps, speed, power consumption, features/games and price all weigh in together. It really used to make me LOL, when people on here were STILL suggesting the 7970 after the 770 came out. I mean, come ooooon!

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-2700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4670K
 
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I know this is super old, but what kind of Z87 would you recommend? Is the MSI G45 good?
 
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I've also been scouring the benchmarks and forums to decided between the i72600k and the i5-4670k. Just looking at the benchmarks that were provided in this thread (http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/577/Intel_Core_i5_i5-4670K_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-2700K.html), it would seem to me that you should go for a 2600k ONLY if you intend to do alot of video editing and very specifically rendering which takes days on end and you'd want to make sure to get the right ship for that.

For gaming, from what I saw in these other benchmarks:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2013/06/12/intel-core-i5-4670k-haswell-cpu-review/5
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?page=0&itemid=1164
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1158

In 1080p ultra, the CPU does not make a big dent on gaming performance, it's only when you're trying to go for the high frame rates 150-300 (which you get with low graphical settings that are less reliant on your GPU that the more powerful CPUs actually start make a difference - where a i7-4770k might have a big advantage over a i5-4670k but honestly, at these frame rates, who gives a damn as you won't be able to notice the extra 50 frames and isn't the entire point of getting a beefy rig is to play games at visually pleasing settings with the highest fps we can manage?

You should also consider this, a GPU running on PCI Express 3 will have double the bandwidth that is available to it on PCIE2. PCI-e 3 is not compatible with Sandy Bridge (2600k). It's only compatible with 3rd gen intel (i5/7 3xxx) and over. Right now running current gen high end GPUs on PCIe2 instead of PCIe3 doesn't seem to affect performance more then 2-3% but as cards get more powerfull, they are going to need more bandwidth. Even if your current mobo doesn't support PCIe3, it may be nice to line yourself up with a CPU that does.
 
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