• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Which CPU should I get?

Topitoff

Topitoff

Topitoff

Associate
Joined
28 Apr 2004
Posts
1,911
Location
19th Hole
I want to have a "play" with the new i3/5 platform; I want to get "best bang for buck" and a good overclock. The PC will be used after the playing for flight sim, pics and general office tasks.

Which of the 2 suggestions below should I get and why?

System 1
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM £88.99

Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel + 3D Vantage (PVV34G1600LLKB) £82.76

Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99

Total £246.74

System 2
Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM £139.99

Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel + 3D Mark Vantage (PVV34G1600LLKB) £82.76

Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £80.99

Total £303.74

I have a Coolermaster TX3 to cool them and the 4850 as gfx.

Thanks
 
personally the I5 as its a pure quad core i would imagine it would play better in flight sims too over the I3
 
If you plan on getting a discrete graphics card at all, then get the i5 750.

The i3 seems to be a very good clocker - but it is still just a dual core. For a CPU heavy "game" like FSX (i'm assuming that's the flight sim you are talking about) the extra cpu power of the i5 750 will be utilised and it is also a good overclocker - 3.8-4GHz should not be a problem with a good air cooler.
 
Think of sys one as your current E8400, just newer fabrication process, newer tech. Will overclock like a beast with decent cooling, especially if u don't use the IGP, and use a dedicated gfx, look at the overclocking results on the forum of the I3. Its also multi threaded 2 cores 4 threads, so if the flight sim can make use of multi threading then

Now system 2 is still 45nm tech, not bad but will run abit hotter, it is a true qaud core (no multi threading on that cpu though, only on the more expensive one).

Either will overclock well, personally for me system 1 is better bang for buck, but thats only my opinion, others may say different
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom