According to many benchmarks and cpu user benchmark ,i5 7600k is little better than i5...

[Ashhar Zawar Syed]

According to many benchmarks and cpu user benchmark ,i5 7600k is little better than i5 8400 but still people suggests i5 8400 over a i5 7600k
Why??

 

[Kane Hewson]

Future proof and optimization. If you can always go newer

 

[Christ Lr]

yes.. i5 8400 has 6 cores / 6 threads while i5 7600K is still 4 cores / 4 threads

go for i5 8400 ..

 

[Erick Ingram Jr.]

Cause its new

 

[Erick Ingram Jr.]

^^

 

[Dennis Barbier]

Because with Coffee Lake intel actually made some performance improvements, as opposed to the stale mediocre performance levels we say between sandy bridge and skylake