Help with spec ~£1000, converting a friend to PC gaming

[Doomedspeed]

as for the cpu
say in the sandy bridge era you'd recommend an i7 2600k over i5 2500k for gaming? Is it worth it? Barely. The guy's friend is on a budget, might as well plow the cost into the GPU and think about the cpu later. Personally rather be a bit lacking on the cpu over gpu. CPU chosen will be fine and there won't be any issues. Could probably go lower.

I won't rant at you like the rest. )) but ill explain my point of veiw.

Yes, the sandy i5 would have been suggested over the sandy i7 for gaming, 100%..

The reason was because games didn't benift from hyperthreading (or multiple threads) at that period, so picking the i7 was just thorwing money at a wall.

No-one could predict when games would benifit from hyperthreading, luckily the time is nigh. Games like BF4 lead the way in using hyperthreading for gaming...

Basically times change, so does hardware and software, you just have to keep up with the times.

Bottlenecking is another issue, but that should occur until SLI/Xfire.. Im not going to deleve into that mindfield.

 

[SiDeards73]

+1 for ExRayTed's basket tbh, good solid choice, quality components.