I've come to pick the brains of your very knowledgeable selves.
I'm considering a new rig since the one I've got, whilst it has served me very well is starting to break under the strains of starcraft two and other rather intensive games.
I've been looking at the i7's but came across an interesting article about how with the right motherboard and with a decent motherboard and a hefty fan it's possible to overclock the i5 2500k to 4.5 ghz quite safely.
Being more of a gamer and less of a multi-tasker I was wondering if this would be a better choice for game performance?
I'm not new to gaming and the gear will be inside an antec 900 and with the money i'd save on the cpu i'd be prepared to get a pretty strong cpu fan to keep the overclock happy.
So, with that explained, I was considering going for:
i5 2500k OC'd to 4.5ghz
Radeon HD 6950
Asus P8P67 Deluxe
and i've got a 750watt Tagan powersupply, though i dont remember the specifics.
I'm unsure on what ram, but I'm not sure that that's such a critical component as long as I find something with high speed and low latency. (any recommendations that are'nt obscenely expensive?)
What's the verdict, would that be more gaming bang for the buck than an i7?
And any recommendations for the other gear?
Many thanks guys.