Your info is a little outdated, checkout Digital Foundry's videos on i5s vs i7s in current gen games. The day of the quadcore being a great choice for gaming is

Your info is a little outdated, checkout Digital Foundry's videos on i5s vs i7s in current gen games. The day of the quadcore being a great choice for gaming is already over if you play the "wrong" games. No longer a slamdunk recommendation. At this point I'd recommend gamers step up to the i7 or R7. Anything "will work", people are using G4560s. I'm suggesting what's ideal at this point in time. The aggregate performance of an 8C/16T machine from any vendor is astonishing, of course.