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John1808

John1808

John1808

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Presently I have a celeron e3200 an xfx5750 and 2 samsung 500gb drives

My main use of the PC is Photo editing (photoshop, nikon cpature nx), Video editing (corel video studio) and coding(handbrake):) and some games in that order.

Within my price point I can get an i5 750 a core 3 i530 and an athlon 955 and suitable mobos to go with them. P55 for I5 H55 for the i3 and 890gx for the 955.

Having not used any of the above I am looking for your opinion on what would be the best system to last about 2 years ish. For example with the I3 being the cheapest would is still suffice my needs but just be a little slower?

I have read many reviews that seem to put the I5 at stock out in front in most apps but would a clocked I3 be comparable.

Your thoughts please

John :)
 
Personally i'd say i5 would be the best for you, i7 would give you the greatest gains but obviously comes at a premium. If you can afford either AM3 or i5 it's pretty safe to discount i3 or unless you're trying to save the pennies.

AM3 has it's perks in the fact it has 6 core CPUs coming etc. which may be of use to you, how much they'll cost is yet to be seen. However if this is an upgrade you'd like to last for a long time i.e >2 years i'd go with the i5, it is the better chip and will serve you better in the long run. However if you're a frequent upgrader AM3 might have some benfits.
 
John1808 said:
But the burning question is still there how close to an i5's performance is an overclocked i3.

John
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Let's ignore overclocking because obviously the i5 can be overclocked too. As for the performance gap it'll depend what you're trying to do. On properly multi threaded things like encoding yea i5 leads by a comfortable margin. gaming it becomes very dependent on the game but with games becoming more multi threaded the i5 will come up trumps here too. Infact i5 is just generally better than i3 as expected considering the price difference.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3704&p=8

Might be worth a read especially the page i have selected there.
 
Ok so I think i will be going down the i5 750 route. Can anyone advise if this board Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L is comaptible as it's quite a bit cheaper than the rest.

Can anyone advise what spec of memory would be best.

TIA

John
 
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