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Ive gone bold.

skipper847

skipper847

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Ive gone bold due to ripping my hair out choosing a new PC :P.

So if i got a top of the range I5 Ivy 3770K and not brought a top of the range I7 Ivy how long will the I5 last?. The other thing whats nagging me is that if i buy a I5 and not I7 is that in 2 years time a game comes and says runs better on I7 or needs an I7 to run etc.
 
Firstly, Blackberry's are *way* past their sell by date, trust me I have one.

On your actual question … I don't see games making use of the extra threads for a long time yet. Most people still run on dual core no HT let alone the 8 threads beats we have.
Also publishers are unwilling to invest in the PC ports of games, so your often going to be limited to what the xbox CPU is capable of.

And before someone says it. This is not the consoles holding back PC games, its the publishers.
 
Games will never need an i7 to be able to run. The i5 3770k can always be over clocked if you need the extra juice. Until HT usage / Quad cores are mainstream for gaming which I can imagine won't be until a very long time, the dual core will always suffice.
 
Don't be sucked in by an i7, these only come into play in CPU intensive applications like rendering and video encoding due to their hyper-threading capabilities.
A high end i5 is still overkill for gaming and will more than likely last you long into the future.

Hell, I'm still running a Q6600 like a lot of people on here, still does the job and that was released in 2007.
 
Emphacy said:
Don't be sucked in by an i7, these only come into play in CPU intensive applications like rendering and video encoding due to their hyper-threading capabilities.
A high end i5 is still overkill for gaming and will more than likely last you long into the future.

Hell, I'm still running a Q6600 like a lot of people on here, still does the job and that was released in 2007.
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Yes an i5 will suffice, an i7 is still better.

I used to run a Q6600 too, and back them it was an off the wall quad core choice, most people ran dual core E chips then as Quads offered no benefit in gaming and generally had less overclocking headroom. The higher clocks of the E chips was better for games.

Then look what happened! The main reason the Q6600 lasted so damn long was games started to use more cores.

No HT will not have the same glory day in gaming but if you can afford it, why not? I am encoding one of my BluRays for my Tablet now on a 2600k, over 4x realtime FPS with a resize.....very useful :D
 
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