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i5 760 vs i7 950 in regards to gaming.

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From specifically a gaming point of interest what kind of performance difference could I expect from these two please?

i5 760 4GHz OC with 4GB dual channel RAM or
i7 950 4GHz OC with 6GB triple channel RAM.

Aside from around £200 difference is the i7 really worth it for gaming or would the i5 be good but with the saving any advice on performance differences please?

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The performance difference would honestly go unnoticed. Save the £200, put it towards something else like a better gpu, SSD or similar. The i7 is only worth it if you do a lot of encoding etc, cpu heavy tasks that can utilize more than 4 threads.
 
Are you planning on dual GPUs?

I believe there are some limitations to using an i5 with a xfire/sli setup although I also believe the difference is minimal.
 
maximusmi2 said:
Are you planning on dual GPUs?

I believe there are some limitations to using an i5 with a xfire/sli setup although I also believe the difference is minimal.
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2-3% difference in fps is not worth the £200 for an x58 chipset and i7 over p55 and i5 though. Plus the i5 actually achieves higher fps with a single gpu, due to the pci controller being on the die.
 
One of the benefits of going i7 is triple channel RAM. With dual channel, you either have 4gb, which is moving into the 'not enough nowadays' zone, or 8gb, which is definitely in the 'far too excessive' zone. This is if you want to keep running in dual channel of course.

With triple, it's quite easy to just run 6gb and get the best of both worlds.

For gaming granted, it wont make a huge difference, but all the little improvements will add up.
 
Invertigo said:
2-3% difference in fps is not worth the £200 for an x58 chipset and i7 over p55 and i5 though. Plus the i5 actually achieves higher fps with a single gpu, due to the pci controller being on the die.
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Agreed, I would spend the difference on a better GPU or decent size SSD but some people like the best of the best so just putting it out there.

I would personally wait to see what the sandy bridge processors bring in terms of performance increase or price decrease in the current range.
 
For gaming, 4gb is still more than enough. A huge chuck of ram usage is Windows 7's pre-caching and super-caching, which scales back hugely when other programs require ram usage.
 
maximusmi2 said:
I would personally wait to see what the sandy bridge processors bring in terms of performance increase or price decrease in the current range.
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Forgot to say that, yeah. Wait for the Sandy Bridge cpu's to come out. The i5 2500k seems like it will be around £175, and I guess the p67 mobo's wont cost more than p55. Sandy bridge has a 10-15% higher performance at the same clocks as the 760, as well as some reviewers managing to clock them to 5ghz on air!
 
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