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i7 2600k or i5 2500k?

FiXiT

FiXiT

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Thinking of doing a new build but undecided what CPU to go for, is the extra few quid for the i7 2600k worth it over the i5 2500k. Use my pc for multiple things from gaming – lots of Adobe Photoshop editing of photos from DSlr – MS office applications – web browsing and thinking of getting Adobe after effects for some video editing, so would I benefit much from getting the i7?

Thanks
 
What people seem to get told on here is get the 2500k if its just a gaming rig and get the 2600k for editing rigs, I think hyperthreading is the main difference between the 2 which would obviously help with the work u will be doing
 
If you use any software that makes use of hyperthreading then pay the extra and go for the i7. For games and general desktop usage the 2500K is just as fast and quite a bit cheaper.
 
The 2500k is perfectly capable of editing though. Sped up my renders no end. In real world im not sure how much faster the 2600k is. I doubt £60+ though
 
bfar said:
Unless your software doesnt use hyper threading.
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I don't think it's the software that decides to use hyperthreading. If it uses multiple threads then it'll utilize hyper threading.

It's the OS that must support HT for it to be worth having switched on.
 
bfar said:
Unless your software doesnt use hyper threading.
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Hyperthreading is a CPU feature which allows more than one thread to execute on a single physical core, by interleaving instructions from different threads in a pipeline (as opposed to interleaving from the same thread only).

moogle said:
I don't think it's the software that decides to use hyperthreading. If it uses multiple threads then it'll utilize hyper threading.

It's the OS that must support HT for it to be worth having switched on.
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And yes, multi-threaded applications use more than 1 thread. The OS will load-balance across the available processors/cores anyway. But multi-threaded apps will make use of more than one core to improve their execution performance.
 
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Wait for Ivybridge.

If impatient then a 2500K & money saved for some extra memory.

Some will say it's overkill, but I'm running 16gb of HyperX Grey memory on my photoshop/gaming rig.
 
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I'd bet Ivies will clock beyond 5Ghz on air. I might sell my 2500k and get an i7 3770k later next year. Gen 3.0 mainboard f.t.w.
 
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