Originally Posted by suicidalkatt
The reason for the i7 4770k in particular is mostly for streaming capabilities, high end video encoding and heavy multitasking.
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Your graphicscard has a hardware-level encoder that you can utilize while streaming, properitary nVidia software is doing exactly that, and I expect other streaming/recording/encoding software to start doing the same.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,3161-16.html
https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
As such, having a 4770K over a 4670K if you don't intend to do heavy photo/video-editing (as they are the only ones that can really utilize a i7's hyperthreading) is overkill and a waste of money imo.
Edit: actually, streaming software already support NVENC as of last sunday
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LMp5JotVE