is this a jump from Q6600

It would be, but personally I wouldn't recommend going for a H81 board with a locked non-K i5 CPU.

You'd probably get similar performance with a Pentium Anniversay Edition and a Z97 board and overclock it, and better performance in games that use less than 4 cores. The benefit of Z97 board is that you'd have the upgrade option open for the future, but the H81 pretty much a deadend.
 
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It would be, but personally I wouldn't recommend going for a H81 board with a locked non-K i5 CPU.

You'd probably get similar performance with a Pentium Anniversay Edition and a Z97 board and overclock it, and better performance in games that use less than 4 cores. The benefit of Z97 board is that you'd have the upgrade option open for the future, but the H81 pretty much a deadend.
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I have to disagree.

For the price its brilliant value - I built a system for a friend using this bundle recently and its very good.

The speed of this i5 is more than enough for any <4 core game, and will have an advantage over the pentium in better threaded games.

I dont see how H81 is more of a dead end than Z97? Z97 is supposedly going to support broadwell, but who bothers to upgrade to one gen up? Waste of money usually. Im still on sandybridge and have got no need to upgrade yet.
 
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ThaReaperGuy said:
This isn't a gaming build.
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And overclocked Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition is faster than a stock clock i5/i7 at for photoshop.

The Pentium G3258 (£50)+ a decent quality and features Z97 (£100) (or just a entry level Z97 board at around £62)+ 8GB memory (£50-£60)= £200-£210 (£160), which would be cheaper than the above i5 bundle with better photoshop performance, and have better quality and features motherboard which will allow for future upgrade.

IMO there's not much reason to locked i5 on a low quality H81 board...if one was to get an i5, go all the way and spend the extra and grab the i5-K and a better Z motherboard right off the bet would make more sense- the capability to overclock alone is totally worth the extra.
 
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Paul11 said:
its just for an office pc that does photoshop layouts and printing .
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As others are saying, you don't need to overspend for this. Any Haswell Intel CPU will be fine, even the Pentiums (dual core) and i3s (dual core with hyperthreading).

The only time CPU power comes into it is in large batch processing and even then you probably should be spending your money on I/O rather than CPU power.
 
confused now...

for the price, and hassle free, it comes with mbrd, cpu, ram... and its ready to go

seems like the way to go
 
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