4 cores, presently appears to become the special place with Intel CPUs and games. This is definitely mainly because nearly all current and previous games aren't enormously threaded, and DX11 really only hammers on 1 line. DX12 allows for manual and automatic multi-threading, IIRC, so future titles should start to really benefit from 4 hyper-threaded cores.The we5-4690, even without OC is definitely very good for video gaming.(I saw a evaluation comparing different Haswell CPUs: The i3 2 core watts/ HT came very close up to the i5 4 primary, and the i7 4 primary + HT in fact performing worse on somé of the video games examined. I possess not observed the article since.).

• Game Debate Gpu Compare

Game Debate Gpu Compare

Apr 24, 2015  You do not need an i7 cpu for gaming, period. The fastest cpu you need for gaming is the i5-4690k, which overclocks to around the same speed as the speed the 4790k overclocked. I7 just has slightly faster stock speeds and hyper threading. Games do not take advantage of more than 4 cores yet, and don't scale with HT too well anyways. Build your best price gaming PC system from all compatible hardware components.