Need help choosing 4770k or 3770k

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Hey people of the world

I know that MANY MANY people have asked this question..... 4770k or 3770k

Now that it has been some time since Haswell came out, and because i will be building a new machine in mid July, I am honestly stuck dead between choosing Haswell and Ivy Bridge. I have also chose all of my parts already and the cpu/mobo are the last thing and I really need help. I will be planning to overclock a decent amount (I know about luck of the draw, so not expecting any numbers untill i get my CPU), Edit and also game on this build. For my motherboard I have come down to the Asus sabertooth either Z77 for Ivy and Z87 for Haswell. 

Now onto the real question, I have been on NUMEROUS forums and I often see mixed feedback.Some people say that going with the newer generation Z87 would be better to go with, and other people say that Haswell is less overclockable but still gets the same benchmarks as an overclocked Ivy. What i mean by this is say that a 4770k is overclocked to 4.4 and a 3770k is overclocked to 4.7, They will both have the same results. Some people say that that is not true, but i honestly do not know anymore...... Thats why I came here to ask all of you great people here...... Any help will be greatly appreciated :)

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haswell is the newer chip with a newer platform, you should definitely get it over the older platform which is still a terrible overclocker

haswell has around a 10% increase in IPC in unoptimized code, and around 25% increase in recompiled code, this is worth the upgrade alone

anyway, if you're a serius overclocker you'd be delidding and lapping your chip anyway, and haswell overclocks better than ivy when you do that (when compared to a delidding and lapped ivy chip)

 

there is no reason to buy ivy over haswell unless 20$ is that much of an issue

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Thanks for the response, I really leaning more over to the Haswell side.

As for the delidding and lapping my chip, I am familiar with it but I am not NEARLY experienced enough to do it, and I also don't really want to screw around with it too much :)

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lol buy some cheap ivy bridge pentiums or something off ebay and have fun with a hammer and bit of wood to practice

 

lapping is pretty risk free just takes forever