i5 or i7?

[deeplfo]

No matter what you use it for, the i7, for sure.

Mohsen

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
> 
> Suppose I were to upgrade my PC (which I'm not, for the foreseeable future at least), would it make sense to get an i7 for music software, as opposed to an i5? What little "information" (for want of a better word) I've read on the internet, they merely assume that more threads = more performance, without actually backing up that claim. For playing games, for example, there isn't much added value in an i7, and sometimes it actually performs worse.
> 
> - Peter
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