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I7 3820 the one to go for?

Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 850W High Performance Powersupply
Asus P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 Socket 1155 Intel Z68 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel i5-2500K Sandybridge Socket 1155 CPU-Retail
Zalman CNPS12X Ultimate Performance Triple Fan CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Memory
Intel 520 Cherryville 180GB MLC 2.5inch SATA 6.0Gb/s Internal SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 7200rpm SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Pioneer 24x SATA Black DVDRW Drive
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

A lot of people are saying go with the i5 2500k what do you think of this
 
padmdhs said:
Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 850W High Performance Powersupply
Asus P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 Socket 1155 Intel Z68 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel i5-2500K Sandybridge Socket 1155 CPU-Retail
Zalman CNPS12X Ultimate Performance Triple Fan CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Memory
Intel 520 Cherryville 180GB MLC 2.5inch SATA 6.0Gb/s Internal SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 7200rpm SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Pioneer 24x SATA Black DVDRW Drive
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

A lot of people are saying go with the i5 2500k what do you think of this
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It's a completely different animal tbh. If you're looking at the GTX670 you'd be better off looking at the i5 3570K on a Z77 chipset board to make use of PCI-E 3.0 bandwidth.
 
padmdhs said:
ok i just keep reading so many arguments for one or the other im confused lol but i get where your coming from
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I would still keep looking at the 3820 tbh, it won't work out much more than an i5 in the grand scheme of things - assuming you're focussing on a quality motherboard. There is about 50 to 60 quid in the price between the two processors and when you look at it that way there is no competition imo.
 
well i have about 2k when i have saved it all i need to know what im going for i am not water cooling either im going on air so would that be a reason to go sandy as ivy gets higher temps
 
What is your i7-3930K like i might go that route with a r4e and pair it up with G.Skill TridentX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit for some god future proofing for a while at least
 
padmdhs said:
What is your i7-3930K like i might go that route with a r4e and pair it up with G.Skill TridentX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit for some god future proofing for a while at least
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Going the route above you are getting the best of nearly everything but you pay extra for it. The 3930k overclocks the same as sandy bridge but has 6 cores, clocks memory nearly as fast as ivy bridge but has quad channel instead of dual channel. The R4E has nearly everything any user could want including quad GPU card support and there is a upgrade path to IB-E.

The downside is you pay a bit extra for it.
 
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