Best CPU/processor for gaming 2012-2013

Well i am posting this quite a bit late, but this might still be helpful for the people building a gaming rig. Most people want the best out of what they are paying for. Here we looking at a high end rig for best performance for the price. AMD are upcoming with their 8 module CPUs, but we are looking at Intel in this article. From Intel we will consider the latest Ivy-Bridge processors.

We will also limit this article for the overclock able CPUs, overclocking is important these days to make sure you CPU stands out and performs will with the GPUs out there. There is a significant gain in performance with the overclocked CPU.

Which are the three CPUs we are considering?
They are the 3570K and 3770K.
Let us have a specification comparison.

Product Name	Intel® Core™ i5-3570K Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)	Intel® Core™ i7-3770K Processor (8M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)
Code Name	Ivy Bridge	Ivy Bridge
Status	Launched	Launched
Launch Date	Q2'12	Q2'12
Processor Number	i5-3570K	i7-3770K
# of Cores	4	4
# of Threads	4	8
Clock Speed	3.4 GHz	3.5 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency	3.8 GHz	3.9 GHz
Cache	6 MB Intel® Smart Cache	8 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Bus Type	DMI	DMI
System Bus	5 GT/s	5 GT/s
Instruction Set	64-bit	64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions	SSE4.1/4.2, AVX	SSE4.1/4.2, AVX
Embedded Options Available	No	No
Lithography	22 nm	22 nm
Max TDP	77 W	77 W
Recommended Customer Price	TRAY: $225.00 BOX : $235.00	TRAY: $332.00 BOX : $342.00

As you see in the above comparison, 3570K stands out better than 3770K for the price and performance,  in gaming you are good with four cores, and a CPU that is overclock able to 4.5GHz stable. Both of them can do it, but there is a $100 difference between both of them. The difference between both are four threads which are not important in gaming. This is why the best gaming processor award goes to 3570K.