A few sandybridge questions.

[DooMeR]

I am looking to upgrade to a sandy bridge very soon i jsut want to ask a few questions before i take the plunge.

Its my understanding that the i5 cores overclock better then the i7 ones. With that in mind is there any reason to spend the extra on getting a i7 when it will be only used for gaming.

My second question is do the integrated graphics have any effect on in game preformance when you have a graphics card installed or is it jsut for systems without a graphics card.

 

[DragonQ]

Actually I think the i7s clock higher on average. However, performance boost in games is minimal clock-for-clock unless the game can take advantage of more than 4 cores. As far as I know, there are very few that can do this.

i5-2500K is considered the better gaming chip unless you have extra money to spare.

 

[VoG]

if all you do is game then there's no reason to go i7, as for the integrated graphics, they have zero effect on performance when there's a dedicated graphics card in the system as they are disabled in bios, just the same way they would be if you build a rig using a mobo with onboard gfx, then add a gfx card at a later date.

 

[DooMeR]

Thanks for the responces and clearing things up for me will be going for the i5-2500k then.

 

[mukhs11]

i was looking for same answer. as i hav an ancient q9450 quad. so when i have cash i will be going for i5 2500k i think