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Gaming on an i7? you're doing it wrong

This should be "lets boost the poor sales of the i5" thread.

I have an Intel 4790, plays all the games, settings mostly maxed out. Very happy with the CPU, running single GPU as well. ;)
 
One of the reasons I went i7 - sure an i5 might be good enough to power the game itself, but throw in additional stuff like video capture, voice comms, etc. as well and the extra threading helps to keep things smooth - which raw FPS figures often don't show.

I generally find the difference a bit more noticeable in 120+Hz gaming especially multi-GPU to power that, for 60fps vsync gaming there is a lot less worth in an i7 over i5.
 
mysticsniper said:
This should be "lets boost the poor sales of the i5" thread.

I have an Intel 4790, plays all the games, settings mostly maxed out. Very happy with the CPU, running single GPU as well. ;)
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I can assure you that the i5 does not have poor sales.

Nothing wrong with the i7 but with most budgets the £90 difference is much better invested in a better graphics card. My choice was 2550k + 660 or 2600k + 650. I chose the former and still haven't seen any game where the price to performance of the i7 beats the i5. I still use that same CPU with a titan and don't regret my decision 3 years ago.
 
Yes, because most gamers just game on their PC?
It's not as if they use Photoshop, edit videos or even stream?!

Perhaps the i7 is just a scam. What is hyperthreading anyway?!
 
Must trade my 5960X in for an i5

Wait

I can just turn off H/T and 4 of the cores, problem sorted and upgrade done !!!
 
Kaapstad said:
Must trade my 5960X in for an i5

Wait

I can just turn off H/T and 4 of the cores, problem sorted and upgrade done !!!
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Yay, you over paid for your perfect for gaming i5.....
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Oh wait, you're going to wait for DX12 and reap the rewards of your 8 cores and 18 threads...
Along with the other people who purchased i7 chips.
Or you could just test performance on a game which better utilities multi-core processors.

Mind you Kaapstad's got like 1000 GPU's anyway, so he clearly requires the i7.
 
I've only ever seen gains from going i5 to i7, and the i7 is clocked slower than my i5 was.

I trust what I see with my own eyes!
 
Will you lot listen to yourselves.

Most gamers out there are quite happy to be playing on some i3 with a 750 (or similar), but of course this is an enthusiast forum so of course we all want i7's.

I had to use my sons machine for a few days a week or so ago which is a humble i3 3220 and a NV 750ti, on an 1080p monitor and low and behold not one game I tried was unplayable and all of them looked perfectly respectable detail wise. Yes none of them were running the highest settings, but they all ran fine. Was it the best few days of gaming I've had, no of course not, as it was on an unfamiliar machine, but the specs of the machine certainly didn't hamper the experience.
 
bru said:
Will you lot listen to yourselves.

Most gamers out there are quite happy to be playing on some i3 with a 750 (or similar), but of course this is an enthusiast forum so of course we all want i7's.

I had to use my sons machine for a few days a week or so ago which is a humble i3 3220 and a NV 750ti, on an 1080p monitor and low and behold not one game I tried was unplayable and all of them looked perfectly respectable detail wise. Yes none of them were running the highest settings, but they all ran fine. Was it the best few days of gaming I've had, no of course not, as it was on an unfamiliar machine, but the specs of the machine certainly didn't hamper the experience.
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Alright bru(h) calm down!
 
bru said:
Will you lot listen to yourselves.

Most gamers out there are quite happy to be playing on some i3 with a 750 (or similar), but of course this is an enthusiast forum so of course we all want i7's.

I had to use my sons machine for a few days a week or so ago which is a humble i3 3220 and a NV 750ti, on an 1080p monitor and low and behold not one game I tried was unplayable and all of them looked perfectly respectable detail wise. Yes none of them were running the highest settings, but they all ran fine. Was it the best few days of gaming I've had, no of course not, as it was on an unfamiliar machine, but the specs of the machine certainly didn't hamper the experience.
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This is true; I recently built an mITX system around the G3528 for fun and gaming performance I get out of it is great especially considering I spent less than half what my main rig's graphics card cost.

Having said that, I can obviously tell the difference between it and my main rig, and telling people they are doing it "wrong" or saying they're stupid for spending more on their computers is ridiculous in itself.

I get that the thread title is most likely in jest, but when people take it too far it seems an awful lot like sour grapes.
 
For most things an i3 is fine, and a 750 Ti will give you similar performance to a PS4 (which isn't anything amazing, but a perfectly functional gaming machine).

The thing is, I LIKE being on the enthusiast fringe (...he typed on his mechanical keyboard) but it's also healthy to remember that I'll survive if Skylake is rubbish or whatever :)

My girlfriend is a wonderful barometer for 'is this actually important, or just important to my tech-fetishism?' i.e. my SSD = brilliant, but me mentioning super-sampling in a value proposition = I'm mental :)
 
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