Are these components good for a gaming pc

AstaLaVista said:

Look at that Samsung SSD here... extremely cool pricing if you ask me

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And buying an i7 vs an i5 looking at the future is not a very good investment if you are paying a premium for something you won't use now or after.

Don't you think in the future you'll need a bit more powerful CPUs than today? At least I think so . Sorry if I'm not getting it right. Maybe I'll consider an i5. :)

Oh, I might as well ask, what are the i7's advantages? It's always better to know more :)

gambe1984 said:

vstrimaitis said:

Oh, I might as well ask, what are the i7's advantages? It's always better to know more :)

Hyper Threading, that's pretty much it - essentially in applications that use it, it creates visualization with makes it emulate to an 8 core processor (if i understand it correctly), however no games utilize it so the advantages only really like in video and audio rendering, and benchmarking.

Maybe you know what kind of programs use it? I do photoshop from time to time and sometimes - video editing. Does it improve performance of those kind of programs? Or is the i5 enough?

BTW thx for the quick replies :)

gambe1984 said:

To be fair, i do some photoshopping and i render my gameplay videos in sony vegas 12, just rendered a 63 minute Medal of Honor gameplay video at 720p 30 fps in about 90 minutes whilst playing world of warcraft as well and thats on my system specs as detailed below

OK. Thanks for the info.

vstrimaitis said:

AstaLaVista said:

Look at that Samsung SSD here... extremely cool pricing if you ask me

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And buying an i7 vs an i5 looking at the future is not a very good investment if you are paying a premium for something you won't use now or after.

Don't you think in the future you'll need a bit more powerful CPUs than today? At least I think so . Sorry if I'm not getting it right. Maybe I'll consider an i5. :)

My point was this... Apples to Apples Comparison (even though you may not need the GPU on any of these CPUs)

Intel i7-3770K @ $ 329.00

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Vs

i5 3570K @ $ 214.00

Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637i53570

You will pay about +100 dollars more right now for the i7 and you don't really need it, correct? Ok, so say in about 2 to 3 years you want to upgrade to a more powerful CPU, whatever that may be then and if games continue the way they are now, you may not even need to upgrade, but for arguments sake we will say you do .

I would then do the following... sell my i5 for whatever I can and with the 100 dollars I save opt for the i5 of the future... rinse and repeat.

Remember, unless you have money to burn or unless your photoshop uses are stopping you from making that project, buying the latest and the greates may just be a waste of money... this holds true for a very good percentage of us here!