Core i5 or Core i7

[deeplfo]

You definitely want to go with i7, just has that much more horse power.

Also, are you locked into the PC platform?  If not, do what I did, when
time came for an upgrade I went all out on the MacPro, and I have to say
it's the *best* computing buys that I have ever made.  So glad I made the
jump.  (My PCs now are just for work and to run things like Visual Studio,
etc.).

Mohsen

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>
wrote:

>  So, I've decided to upgrade my PC, once I win the lottery. :)
>
> This will be done in three steps:
>
>    1. Buy an additional 500 GB or 1 TB SSD, so that I can install a
>    couple of games. They easily set you back 65 GB these days, and that's just
>    very hard on a 256 GB SSD.
>    2. Buy a new video card, probably something along the lines of a
>    GeForce GTX 980. That's about twice as fast as my GTX 580.
>    3. Buy a new motherboard and CPU, and some 16 GB of memory.
>
>
> When I read about what CPU to get for gaming, most people say that a Core
> i5 is sufficient, and that the graphics card is much more important. On the
> other hand, my ageing Core i7-960 still has half of the performance of some
> of the fastest 4-core Core i7 chips. In fact, the fastest Core i5 is only
> 30% faster. On the other hand, the memory may not be that fast.
>
> However, I'm not sure about the Core i5. One thing that is mentioned is
> that games may start to use those extra logical cores you get on an i7, and
> that the extra performance may come in handy when you're streaming games -
> something that I can see myself doing within the foreseeable future.
>
> Also, what makes sense: an LGA1150 socket or an LGA2011 socket? The latter
> you need if you want six cores (12 logical) on a Core i7. I foresee a great
> expense, though.
>
> Or would it make more sense to just stick with the Supermicro motherboard
> that I have? I just found out, though, that it's impossible to overclock.
> Buying a new Socket 1366 motherboard doesn't seem particularly useful.
>
> - Peter
>
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