Save the extra cash your not going to really benefit that much, only real difference is higher clock speeds and the 4590 is supposedly to have slightly higher per core performance, but it won't be $20 worth so save the money.

Thanks for the info! Helps a ton! What about the 4690K? Is that worth the extra buck?

Gor wrote Thanks for the info! Helps a ton! What about the 4690K? Is that worth the extra buck?

Only if you want to overclock, and you would need to have a Z87/Z97 Chipset to support overclocking and then get an aftermarket cooler to keep things cool which turns out very expensive and is not worth it IMO.

The 4590 is a 3.3GHz chip and the 4460 is a 3.2GHz chip. They both have the same architecture. They both run almost identically, with the 4590 being ever so slightly better due to that extra 0.1GHz, which gives it better per core performance and better performance overall, but it's a very minimal improvement. The 4690k only makes sense if you're overclocking, so you'd have to spend more for a compatible motherboard, and then you'd have to spend more for a decent cooler. You should be able to OC a 4690k to 4GHz safely(this isn't a promise though, all chips are different!), which would be a fair bit faster than the 4460 but not a huge improvement in real tests, or even synthetic benchmarks for that matter, so it's not really worth the money unless you really want to OC or can spend the money without sacrificing performance elsewhere in your rig.