i3-4150 vs. i5-4440 for gaming?

[the public]

I plan on building a budget gaming pc for about $800-$900 and im sitting at about $890 with the i5-4440 cpu, asrock fatal1ty h97 performance gaming mobo, msi r9 280 and the nzxt phantom 240 black. The i3-4150 is clocked at 3.5ghz with 2 physical cores, but the i5-4440 is clocked at 3.1ghz with 4 physical cores. I plan on playing BF4, BF Hardline and other triple A, first person shooters. Now my question is, is the i5-4440 worth the $60 more than the i3-4150 for gaming and casual use or should i spend the money elsewhere and go with the i3-4150?

[Rodneyg87]

I plan on building a budget gaming pc for about $800-$900 and im sitting at about $890 with the i5-4440 cpu, asrock fatal1ty h97 performance gaming mobo, msi r9 280 and the nzxt phantom 240 black. The i3-4150 is clocked at 3.5ghz with 2 physical cores, but the i5-4440 is clocked at 3.1ghz with 4 physical cores. I plan on playing BF4, BF Hardline and other triple A, first person shooters. Now my question is, is the i5-4440 worth the $60 more than the i3-4150 for gaming and casual use or should i spend the money elsewhere and go with the i3-4150?

The performance gained from the i5 vs the i3 wont be to much since most games barely use two cores anyways. Yes there would be a few fps difference in favor of the i5 but if i were you id just go with the i3 and sink the rest of the cash into a higher end GPU since the difference would be minimal. It would be way different if you was asking about a K series i5 vs the i3 but both are locked chips and technically the i3 is a quad core anyways since it has hyper-threading. The only other difference is that the i5 has turbo boost but that would just make it the same speed as the i3 temporarily and the i5 has integrated graphics but obviously that doesnt matter since you have a GPU in your build.

 

Can you post your PC part picker link maybe we can tweak it for you to get you some better performance?

[the jolly roger]

I plan on building a budget gaming pc for about $800-$900 and im sitting at about $890 with the i5-4440 cpu, asrock fatal1ty h97 performance gaming mobo, msi r9 280 and the nzxt phantom 240 black. The i3-4150 is clocked at 3.5ghz with 2 physical cores, but the i5-4440 is clocked at 3.1ghz with 4 physical cores. I plan on playing BF4, BF Hardline and other triple A, first person shooters. Now my question is, is the i5-4440 worth the $60 more than the i3-4150 for gaming and casual use or should i spend the money elsewhere and go with the i3-4150?

the i5 will be better, on some of the more CPU demanding games

[ZetZet]

get the i5, it will be good enough even for next generation of gpu's. i3 is borderline now.

[Sushicat89]

Get the I5, it's just better overall for more CPU demanding games