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how nice is the i7

adz4u28 said:
id also be very interested in an answer to this.

i currently multibox 4 copies of warcraft on one pc. (q8200/4gb ram/gtx275) and am looking at either an i5 or an i7, the price of the i5 is very attractive! but would the i7 be more suited?
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Wow is quite CPU intensive, but it only makes good use of 2 cores per game, going from a dual to a quad definalty makes a good difference, and considering that really its 1 busy thread and 1 quiet one, I would be willing to bet that 4 copies would run very smoothly on an I7 on a 1336 platform (to get the extra memory bandwidth)

Of course the GPU(s) will have quite a bit of work to do with so many copys running. You'll need a good amount of ram too, I find that with 2-3 copies of WOW running on my Q6700 with 6GB of ram, that most of the ram is gone once the 3rd copy is running.
 
decided on a i5-750 after all price per performance is just too great and the differences in real world everyday computing from what i have read the i5 is far more suited to my needs,
i`m hoping on a noticable performance increase over my current q8200.
 
Nope. More like unlocked multiplier like this.

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http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=707679 :D
 
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