i5 4460 vs i5 6400

[tjonas005]

Hi, 

i'm going to build a new computer and don't really know wich one to buy.

should i buy the i5 4460 or the 6400 or an other cpu around this price point.

 

 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

If you can fit the 6400 in your budget,go for it

[Morgan MLGman]

6400 is better, and in some areas costs about the same along with the motherboard and memory, just check the prices, if the price difference is big then get the cheaper one

[KemoKa]

I would get the 6400 for the platform perks rather than overall performance gains on just the CPU. You get DMI 3.0 on 100 series motherboards, which is dead handy for fast storage and peripherals.

[tjonas005]

thank you a lot i will go with the 6400 

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'd go with the i5-6400 just to have an upgrade path until 2018, since Cannonlake is supposed to release on LGA 1151 in Q3 2017. You never know, AMD might hit a home run with Zen and force Intel to make Cannonlake something special whether it's price, more cache, moar corez, high clockspeeds, hyperthreading on the i5, etc. And having faster DDR4 RAM is a big selling point for Skylake too. And then the four extra PCIE lanes for adding fast SSDs later.