sadly I think I got a bad egg with my CPU (or MoBo I guess) last time I overclocked it I couldn't push it past 3.3Ghz without getting constant crashes.

Captain_Tom said: Euphoria14 said: Can I handle it? On low, yes.  But I am sure low will look great!

As long as I can run it then that's good. I can always mess with settings to make things look better.

It isn't quite yet.  Not until the i7's have 6 cores standard will they be worth the 40%+ premium.  Even in encoding an i7 doesn't beat an i5 by as much as it costs more than it.

For gaming 

yea paying over 40% more for a CPU that performs just over 10% better is not really worth it. Especially as at a reasonable resolution you will be GPU bound in most games before you will be CPU bound with an i5-3570. And that is with a game that actually scales well past 4 cores (which means that hyperthreading actually becomes an advantage) which is still rare tho with PS4 having an 8 core CPU should become more common in ports. And once you get into the 6 core X CPUs you are speding crazy money.

Most games look more like this anyway

or this

Or this (note that the 3570 isn't featured but should be just above the 3470)

And Haswell won't change much

I think a i5-4670/4570 will will probably be my next upgrade.

As I said, whatever performance differences there are between the 3570K and 3770K, is nothing that overclocking can't fix. :)
The main difference between the two is Cache and Hyper-Threading and even Hyper-Threading can *reduce* performance in some instances.

Save your money by going with the 3570K, overclock it a little, use the saved money and spend it on a better graphics card.
You will get better gaming performance than someone who went with a 3770K and a lesser GPU.

If you're doing lots of heavy encoding, I still wouldn't go for the 3770K, I would look into GPU Encoding, Intel QuickSync or go for the Core i7 3930K and be done with. (No point wasting the extra $400 on a Core i7 3960X/3970X for a couple megabytes of cache and a little clockspeed over the 3930K.)

Well, a few games have already stated GTS 250/similar card and 2GB RAM as minimum and I can still play them on high settings. Of course, my GPU(GTS 450) is a little better than a GTS 250, but still, it's puzzling.

The first screen looks very similar to The Last of Us.

well, it looks like a world where nobody lives anymore except of some "safe" places.

but the world outside the metro looks much better this time, that's what i didn't like that much in metro 2033.

I'm sorry me and my brother saw your signature and just laughed... That's inane man!

Amen to that. I just picked up a FX-8350 and have started playing around with it. As a former AMD user that went intel with the 3570k, its so refreshing to tinker with AMd stuff again. More variables that if you get right give you a bigger performance boost...