Soldato
What - am I speaking Hebrew or something?
Oh well over to you stulid 
Oh well over to you stulid 
Oh well over to you stulid 

DONT go AMD! or i5
if you plan to keep your GPUs well in the highend sector and eventually
crossfire or SLI then the AMD cpus will be the bottleneck.
this could be said for i5 shortly down the line but im trying to get info.
I read a review that an AMD 1055T (yes 6core cpu) Overclocked @ 4.0Ghz with SLI 480s
COULD NOT keep up with an i7 930 and 470s (not massive but lesser GPU)
the 1055T even @ 4ghz was Holding the 480s back.
If you spending this much on a new gaming Rig (which i understand, because i am to) then why would you want to save £100 and go i5.
its stoopid. if your spending 1k or over on a new rig then saving £100 makes no difference at all.
been hunting out info and reviews for the last month to help me build
a Beast to destroy games for the next few years at least.
i7 is defo the way to go its NOT overkill, because the 1055T proved it.
wots going to happen in 18months wen ppl can afford SLI 480s like they can now with 460s
there not going to get the full shabang!! out of them because of ther lesser cpu bottlenecking.
its your choice. ive made mine (sig)
You get wot you pay for.
gl m8![]()

@Liam
well its nice to see your responce is all about i5, clearly because you own 1.
. I'm not defending the i5 just because i own one. Having said that it's no coincidence i own an i5 either - it is afterall arguably the best gaming CPU available.i didnt say anything about i5 performance.
your on the last cpu in the i5 sector, your facing a brick wall m8.
another PLUS for the OP would be that he would have a chance
of a HEXCORE in the future which he has no chance of with i5.
i think any1 with an i5 rig would trade it in with £100
to get an i7 rig. but i xpect you u say OH NO I WOULDNT!
Addition: every single 1 of ur responces suggests that i was slagging i5 performance. which i didnt once lol.
so that makes ur counters completly VOID m8 unlucky

and why did u quote the last 2 words of a completly different
sentence infront of a brand new shiny sentence.????
your quote beginning with "its stoopid"
if your going to quote then u have to quote the full sentence.
was it because i said dropping to i5 to save £100 is STOOPID?
u tryed to make the last sentence look bad or sumthing? wots ur angle?
I'm really not sure it's worth going i7 for gaming. i5 7xx is every bit as fast in gaming - in fact slightly faster due to the on-chip pcie controller. Check out some benches. This build is a similar price to the i7 build but trades i7 for xfired 5850s instead, keeps your bluray drive and adds a conventional HDD for storage (that little SSD could be full very quick!).
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £232.64
2x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card ***Supplied with Stalker & Assasins Creed Games*** £399.48
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £158.99
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £124.98
Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £89.99
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £62.99
Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £45.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
Sub Total : £1,135.67
Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £201.32
Total : £1,351.74



and he might be silly enuff to sell u it for £100 for a bottle of buckfast and 20cigs and a good night out.
Your opinion makes sense in relation to the AMD 6-core which is clearly outperformed in gaming by the i7, however your comments re the i5 make no sense at all - the i7 offers no performance gain over an i5 7xx in gaming, and likely never will. If you want one though, go ahead. You'll enjoy it.

Would it be worth going to the 950 over the 930??
Your opinion makes sense in relation to the AMD 6-core which is clearly outperformed in gaming by the i7, however your comments re the i5 make no sense at all - the i7 offers no performance gain over an i5 7xx in gaming, and likely never will.

liampope could well be correct by that time i might be changing a lot more.

The current benchmark for systems is a game from a few years ago now (crysis - metro is a contender but all that brown....). Games have barely had a chance to take hold of dx10 possibilities before dx11 was shoved out and is still in its infant stage
the current benchmark for systems now is a 
im a bit confusedthe current benchmark for systems now is a
game from "a few years ago"
to me that sounds like that game was ahead of its time? which clearly
states the potential of a even more hungry game to get released at any time?
(Battlefield 3 with hyperthreading?)
the dx10 and 11 comment is just the same as windows vista and win7
a lot of flaws removed and even more potential added.
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get i7 if your happy with the money. If you do have a budget and its gaming you want then a better gpu will serve you better than a more expensive cpu.

Nope the point is that graphics havnt come along way in a long time. We havnt had any major improvements that have tested systems since that game. there are no games just around the corner that will change things.
if you could help on this. If GPUs havent came along,