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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Why bother? Games don't use hyper-threading, so unless you are going to also be doing Photoshop, Premeire/Aftereffects, 3D modelling, music recording or any other CPU intensive application work, the i5-3570k plays games identical to the i7-3770k.
TL;DR It's a waste of an extra 100$ if you are not going to be using the machine for heavy application use.
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For 25% more on-die cache I would definitely spend the extra $100 - pretty much the single most important aspect of a modern CPU, to the point where I'd choose a CPU with more cache than a CPU with a higher clock speed every single time.
I also wouldn't categorically state that games don't use hyperthreading - if you inspect a running game in task manager for thread count, I bet many, many games utilize more than one thread. Even if a game did utilize few or no threads, the larger cache would be even more beneficial, since more of the data and instructions related to that single thread would occupy the cache.