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i5 or i7?
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Now I have sprog on the way I've been pricing up a new pc. The missus will be on maternity leave for 9months pretty much at quarter pay so I'll have zero spare cash for
toys. So I have to buy soon and It's going to have to last about 2 years without a major upgrade.
I don't know to go with i7 or i5 although the i7 920 looks good, would i be leaving myself with an expensive upgrade path in the future. The i5 seems to have got some mixed reviews, but should be cheaper to upgrade in a couple of years.
The pc will be totally new and I plan on overclocking it.
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current budget?
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Probably about a £1000 if I can get £150-200 for my current pc. I'll need everything though. So thinking £400-500 for CPU, MB and ram, so I can get a decent gfx card, psu, case & hdd.
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Quote from: Guilt is a rope... etc on October 22, 2009, 03:52:52 PM
Probably about a £1000 if I can get £150-200 for my current pc. I'll need everything though. So thinking £400-500 for CPU, MB and ram, so I can get a decent gfx card, psu, case & hdd.
Squeeze it up to 2k
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You can see my buy list for the i5 PC
I got
(although prices do change), and I prefer the lower cost of the i5 (£50 cheaper it seems) which pushed me to get more RAM
(I wanted 8GB, and other components would be the same regardless of the processor/RAM).
It's all offsetting costs. For games, no doubt the i5 will do for the future, and seems to overclock well if you like to do that.
If you go for price/performance, the i5 is good right? In any case, depends what you're doing and if you think the bottleneck might be elsewhere (slow RAM, slow graphics card, etc.).
Plan out a PC and see if you need the extra Ghz. Don't get it for Hyperthreading - it's great for servers and multiple tiny, tiny tasks (as servers do) but games won't make great use of it, and video encoding etc. doesn't get a massive gain.
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screw the i5, if you get the right socket i7 the upgrade path leads to the i9
. I forget the socket but i9s will only be on that socket altho i guess they may eventually make a successor to the i5 sharings its socket but thats not been announced yet.
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i7 920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB)
5870
Hard drives (take your pick for your needs)
Optical drive (cheapest SATA DVD-RW drive you can find)
nice looking case
700w PSU (make sure its modular)
you should be able to fit all that into your budget if you shop around
Also, you should make sure a 5870 can fit in the case you have as they're massive
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you pretty much described this
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appart from the fact that it'll cost a lot more pre-built
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of course just though it was funny how it was almost described to a T
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its also a different mobo.. same brand though.. thats cuz its a good mobo maker
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ASRock is fine too
Gigabyte is a bit more nuanced for overclocking though.
I still think the i5 is best bang for buck, but if you've the budget and are NOT buying SSD drives, like I did, go for the i7 then I guess, heh.
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well i thought about the i5 but with no successor to the slot currently announced i thought why risk it i can spend the extra on an i7 knowing the socket will be reusable with i9
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This means nothing to me realy, but this link goes to a pritty picture. I think it means a i7 with a socket LGA 1366 in a X58 chipset motherboard absolutly rocks.
http://www.scan.co.uk/shops/intel/nehalem?_s_icmp=8248eyFy
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ah thats it socket 1366 is the high end socket.
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