I'm looking to buy a new processor, just for games. I have just bought a gtx570soc and am looking to get the most out my rig, is it worth while buying an i7 or go for an i5?
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I'm looking to buy a new processor, just for games. I have just bought a gtx570soc and am looking to get the most out my rig, is it worth while buying an i7 or go for an i5?
Cheers
just for games, the i5 2500k
Definitely the i5 if it's only for games. The only real advantage of the i7 is hyper threading which will have no benefit while gaming. Spend the extra money on a graphics card upgrade. That's the bottleneck.
Sorry, just seen you're getting a 570. That'll be fine for pretty much anything one a single monitor setup. Save the money, or buy a better motherboard or cooler for more stable overclocks.
So you think this set up with a 570SOC would be a good games machine?
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Id be going for a corsair H60 for cooling
Should be great. What wattage PSU are you going for? I'd recommend you don't need any more than 750w. Unless you have plans to add a second 570 in the future.
What apps would you notice the benefit of i7 in?
Multi-threaded apps, which can take advantage of the i7s hyperthreading. HTT gives a 30% performance boost in multi-threaded apps. That would be programs like media converters, archiving programs, or anything like prime95 which uses more than 4 threads. Also, the 2MB extra L3 cache would improve things a bit for everything.
Sorry to hijack this thread slightly, but I'm looking at the same i5 /i7 choice...
I wouldnt primarily be doing many games, but running VM's - I would have thought that this would be the sort of thing that the extra power of the i7 would help.
I know that I shouldnt get the k versions because it doesnt include the virtualisation stuff intel does - vPro Technology
thoughts?
I have a 2500k and I have hardware virtualization support. Not sure where you got that info from but I am pretty much sure there are no cut down features in K chips versus other sandy bridge chips.
...with the possible exception of integrated GPU
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You have VTx but not vPro
http://ark.intel.com/products/52210/...he-3_30-GHz%29
vPro is more for remote operation though.
Wow first I've heard. Very interesting! I hope I don't need vPro in a hurry.
edit: stupid Intel... wonder if there is any reason for this at all.
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In the end, it all depends on your budget.
Personally, I'd stump up for the extra and get an i7 2600 purely because there are games out there (namely Battlefield 3 for now!) that make use of more than 4 cores.
Although not truly more than for cores, the 2600K can run 8 threads.
As far as I've ever been able to tell, there's no logic at all to Intel's enabling and disabling of chip features on their processor range. The Core 2 range were the worst, all over the shop in terms of what they would and wouldn't support. I assume they have some kind of strategy, but it almost seems to be a case of them writing the microcode then testing the processors to find out what does and doesn't work and sticking with that! Compare that to AMD, who basically enable all the available features on the silicon (hence my £28 Sempron 140 having hardware virtualisation and ECC memory support) as standard, and it leaves you scratching your head...
so from what im reading a 17 2700k would be a pointless upgrade for a gaming rig over a i5?
Not pointless, some games will definitely make use of the additional cores.
As said before, Battlefield uses upto 7 cores I believe.
This trend will only grow once programmers start getting to grips with programming in this way.
I'd save some cash and try to find a 2600K than stump up extra for the 2700K though.
Either way, I'd go for the i7 to better futureproof my purchase.
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