i5 750 vs i7 930

[easyrider]

Air cool, was thinking of getting the Venomous X. Any thoughts on installing 8gb in an x58?

why do you need 8GB?

 

[IAmATeaf]

why do you need 8GB?

Cause my son does a lot of media encoding type work and I run VMs plus my current rig has 8Gb

After doing a lot of reading I've decided to go for an i7 950 with a Gigabyte X58A UD5 mobo instead of an i7 875k and an Asus P55-E Deluxe mobo.

 

[hedgey]

so in conclusion, i5 is better. case closed.

 

[easyrider]

so in conclusion, i5 is better. case closed.

eh?

 

[bells]

~it looks like the quad core i7 870K is going to be the fastest CPU compatible with the platform~

The 880 already exists

 

[nataku17]

=/ i am currently trying to make this exact decision this thread is the main reason i can't decide >< my worry is that i will buy the i5 and then this time next year games will be using more than 4 cores at which point i will regret getting the i5 =/

though i guess you could argue that by then the i7s will be cheap and will only cost maybe £200 to upgrade too

edit: forgot i wanted to ask if an i5 would cause a bottleneck with SLI with higher end graphics cards

 

[Liampope]

=/ i am currently trying to make this exact decision this thread is the main reason i can't decide >< my worry is that i will buy the i5 and then this time next year games will be using more than 4 cores at which point i will regret getting the i5 =/

though i guess you could argue that by then the i7s will be cheap and will only cost maybe £200 to upgrade too

Just get an i5. If games ever start making use of all four cores + hyperthreading you could just switch the CPU to an i7 8xx on the same mobo.

 

[Xelene]

A friend has asked me to build a pc for her. Basically its only going to be used for gaming, WoW (literally thats it).

I was actually pretty much sold on the i7 930 option till I saw this about the 750. For a machine that is going to be used for a die hard WoW player which would be better???

i7 is super massive overkill for WoW. An i5 Quad or AMD Quad is far more sensible, couple that with a 460 1GB and she'll be able to handle Dalaran or any raid with everything turned up to max and not break a sweat.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

=/ i am currently trying to make this exact decision this thread is the main reason i can't decide >< my worry is that i will buy the i5 and then this time next year games will be using more than 4 cores at which point i will regret getting the i5 =/

though i guess you could argue that by then the i7s will be cheap and will only cost maybe £200 to upgrade too

edit: forgot i wanted to ask if an i5 would cause a bottleneck with SLI with higher end graphics cards

There's never going to be an affordable skt1366 6-core. £800 cpu's don't drop down to £200. They stay expensive until they're replaced by another £800 chip.

 

[nataku17]

There's never going to be an affordable skt1366 6-core. £800 cpu's don't drop down to £200. They stay expensive until they're replaced by another £800 chip.

i was talking about the quad core i7 950 which has hyperthreading which as far as i am aware allows a core to act as 2 sorry if that is not the case

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

i was talking about the quad core i7 950 which has hyperthreading which as far as i am aware allows a core to act as 2 sorry if that is not the case

Yes, you're correct, however In the really unlikely event of there being a game next year that needs more than 4 threads, 1156 owners will still have the option of doing what liampope said, and getting i7 8xx chips. They're quad cores with hyperthreading, exactly the same as the 950.

 

[jaket]

I say go with i5....been using it for the past year clocked at 3.8ghz with no issues! eats everything i throw at it