I5 4460 vs 2600K?

[Hemanse]

Buying some used hardware to upgrade my ancient Q6600 so i can use it as a more competent secondary pc for games and so on. I have gotten 2 offers so far:

 

#1

CPU - I7 2600K

Board - Asrock Z77 Pro4

Memory - Kingston Value 1333Mhz DDR3 1x 4GB + 1x 2GB

No price negotiated yet

 

#2

CPU - I5 4460

Board - Z97 something (waiting for answer to which brand the motherboard and memory are).

Memory - 2400Mhz DDR3 16GB.

300$ or so.

 

Which sounds the best to you guys? I have pretty minimal knowledge when it comes to the 4460 or the 2600K, all i pretty much know is the 2600K is suppose to be a killer overclocker.

 

[xnoobftw]

Highly depends on price for #1

[Samppa221]

The i7 would get you more performance but the i5 version is more upgradeable.

[comicsansms]

The i7 is better!

[Imakuni]

Probably the i5, due to the magical 8gbs of ram and a newer CPU. Although you could save some money if it was a an h81 mobo, seeing as the z97 is completely useless here.

[Hemanse]

Highly depends on price for #1

 

Hm yeah, im not sure on what i should offer for the 2600K kit, i live in Europe, so prices compared to the States are quite different, but i was thinking something along the lines of 180-200$.

[Hemanse]

Probably the i5, due to the magical 8gbs of ram and a newer CPU. Although you could save some money if it was a an h81 mobo, seeing as the z97 is completely useless here.

 

16GB* but true Not sure why the z97 is useless tho?

[Imakuni]

16GB* but true Not sure why the z97 is useless tho?

What's the big advantage of getting a z97 vs an H81 mobo? The overclocking capabilties.

 

Oh, but wait, the 4460 is a locked CPU that can't be OCed. Huh. So what are you gaining from a z97? SLI support (which I doubt you'll need either, unless you've got the money for some 980ti)?

[Hemanse]

What's the big advantage of getting a z97 vs an H81 mobo? The overclocking capabilties.

 

Oh, but wait, the 4460 is a locked CPU that can't be OCed. Huh. So what are you gaining from a z97? SLI support (which I doubt you'll need either, unless you've got the money for some 980ti)?

 

Im not really going for overkill hardware, this is just what i got offered really Im pretty sure the 4460 is locked yes, i guess the z97 board is just a bonus, who knows, maybe i wanna sli some smaller cards in it, but right now this secondary pc is gonna house my "old" GTX770.

[FIXXX]

16 GB is useless though. I have tons of software in the background, a big game and browsers - and barely exceed 8GB. You might not need that much and might save a bit of dough!

[Hemanse]

16 GB is useless though. I have tons of software in the background, a big game and browsers - and barely exceed 8GB. You might not need that much and might save a bit of dough!

 

Also true, but that was the bundle offer he wants to sell, 8 or 16GB used memory isnt really gonna break the bank Might even throw that in my daily driver as the memory he wants to sell me is actually faster then what i am currently running with   Tho it still depends on what brand etc it is, might just be some a value kit, just waiting for him to write back right now.

[FellTheSky]

if you are overclocking.. 2600k

if not, depends on the pricing

[fringie]

In terms of raw performance the i7 is better sure but the i5 has better IPC and under certain instruction sets should perform much better (assuming extra threads aren't required). For most games I'd expect the i5 to perform better unless the i7 is overclocked.

 

The newer motherboards have improved features (and hopefully durability like they market), better bios's etc.

 

I'd go i5 personally despite it overall being less powerful. I find myself hitting the 90% utilization of RAM at times, since you can get 16gb it's a (very) slight plus.

[Hemanse]

In terms of raw performance the i7 is better sure but the i5 has better IPC and under certain instruction sets should perform much better (assuming extra threads aren't required). For most games I'd expect the i5 to perform better unless the i7 is overclocked.

 

The newer motherboards have improved features (and hopefully durability like they market), better bios's etc.

 

I'd go i5 personally despite it overall being less powerful. I find myself hitting the 90% utilization of RAM at times, since you can get 16gb it's a (very) slight plus.

 

Just got a meesage back from the guy with the i5, the motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97-d3h and the memory is Kingston HyperX Predator 2400Mhz, also included in his bundle is windows 8.1/10, which isnt bad either since i wanna try out windows 10 on that machine before i start running it on my main pc.

 

So yeah i think im gonna go with the I5.

 

Also the guy with the I5 bundle lives within driving distance so i can just pick it up instead of having it shipped.