Originally Posted by
gox
In my opinion you lost out a lot, but see what the others say
The major loss is not the so called 0.4ghz difference, its the fact that the 4670K has the "K" designation which means it has an unlocked multipler, aka it is overclock friendly. The 4430 cannot overclock much/at all if I understand it correctly.
Won't make much of a difference now, but in say a year or so, if you wanted to "upgrade" your system, and you had the 4670k, you could have bought a cooling kit (say corsair H80i) and overclocked the 4670k to say 4.4-4.5ghz, for an easy 10% performance gain.
The price difference is around R600-R700 between the two CPU's, so depending on what 4gb of ram and shipping costs, although I doubt its R700.
Perhaps get the input of a few more clued up folks here? - this is just my understanding of it
