I5 or I7

[Piemanfood]

Which is better suited for mainly gaming. The I5-4690K or the I7-4790K.

[hypnodog]

I would get the i5.

[MilkJugg24]

i5 for purely gaming unless you plan on playing Fallout 4 ultra.

[slightlyjaded]

i7, because it isn't manly unless you're going balls to the wall.

 

EDIT: Ooops, I so read that wrong....I will stand by my point however, with a caveat. if you're playing mainly indie games and older titles, the i5 is probably the better chip as the price increase of buying the i7 isn't justified by the increase in performance. If however you're playing modern AAA titles more often, they're becoming multi-core optimised...After that it's your choice.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Really any modern i5 is perfect for gaming and unless you're streaming / doing multi media production you don't really need an i7.

[Josephdalepi]

i5 for purely gaming unless you plan on playing Fallout 4 ultra.

this was a lot funnier than i expected for this thread

[Piemanfood]

i5 for purely gaming unless you plan on playing Fallout 4 ultra.

lol don't think I plan on doing that 

[xgn]

I7 is better but they are so powerful these days hyperthreading wont make much of a difference gaming is more about the gpu you have.

[Piemanfood]

I7 is better but they are so powerful these days hyperthreading wont make much of a difference gaming is more about the gpu you have.

I'm going for the EVGA Geforce 970

[Sportiva]

Which is better suited for mainly gaming. The I5-4690K or the I7-4790K.

You should add a "it depends option" as most games don't benefit from hyper threading so i5 in that case,

But if you game and sometimes edit and render content you most certainly will benefit from hyper threading so i7 in that case,

But since you said mainly gaming i would go for a i5. 

[Piemanfood]

Thanks guys for the help, really appreciated.