I am trying to decide should i buy (for gaming pc) the cheaper i5-4670K - and save money for the new generation of Intel CPUs (Broadwell & Haswell-Refresh) coming in early 2015 - OR - fork out some extra money and purchase the mighty (yet barely affordable) i7-4820K, which is then to be used for 2/3 years? For reference, i would like to play games like Battlefield 4, Planetside 2 and Starcraft 2. Here is some data: http://ark.intel.com/products/75048/...up-to-3_80-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/77781/...up-to-3_90-GHz In my country's market, the i5-4670K costs 26.290 Dinars while the i7-4820K costs 36.290 Dinars - so the i7 is about 40% more expensive, and that is not counting the higher-quality Motherboard (with a more advanced cpu socket) that the i7 would require. Now, what i am hoping here for is that some very smart and well informed hardware geniuses can share their technical knowledge - and advise me on these tough subjects: Aside from not being sure is the i7's over 40% bigger price actually worth the performance gain (both can be overclocked) i would get when comparing it to the i5 - i am also uncertain on which of the "plans for the future" is better. Do i go with the cheaper i5 and a cheaper motherboard, while saving money for the new 2015 Intel CPUs - or do i now go for the mighty i7 and then delay getting the new generation Intel CPUs till ~2016/2017? Thank you for reading and helping out - i should mention that, while i welcome any advice, i am not a fan of AMD CPUs and that on my country's market (for some reason) the other weaker i7 models are actually more expensive than the i7-4820k, so there is no logic in going for a different i7 model.
AMD and Intel basically stopped processor development, because todays processors are fast enough. It's just that software needs to improve. In games you probably won't notice any worthy difference (considering pricing) between i5 and i7 even after many years.
