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it's my understanding that nothing out there can even take advantage of the i7's full capabilities, and what is out there right now is better tuned for the i5... But the i7 is most likely going to be a better investment; but who knows? It could be crap in the future

its always going to be a gamble, no one can tell you what the "best" is, because it all depends

[steveyos]

"I don't think there are many games currently available on the market that can really make use of the i7's full capabilities."


second life

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"I don't think there are many games currently available on the market that can really make use of the i7's full capabilities."


second life

does second life use hyperthreading?

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Cool your jets: Overclockers must pay toll to play on Haswell highway
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...swell-highway/

Intel has taken back the gift of "free” overclocking that it gave hardware tweakers when introducing its Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processor lines. Geoff Gasior at The Tech Report writes that has Intel confirmed it will lock down the ability on the company's new Haswell generation of CPUs. Users will lose much of the ability to run all but the more-expensive K-series of Haswell CPUs faster than their rated clock frequency in the hope of squeezing more performance out of the processor.

Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors allowed for overclocking across their whole lines—not by a huge amount, but by enough to squeeze an extra 400 MHz of compute cycle out of them on the “standard” CPUs. Overclocking could achieve even more on the K-series versions.

An Intel representative told Gasior that since the standard Haswell processors are targeted for business and consumer applications “where overclocking is generally not performed,” access to the additional base clock straps of the Haswell processor are disabled in all but the K-series processors. Those run $20 to $30 more than the standard processors. (There is still a “turbo” multiplier mode available to boost performance of the CPU itself, however.)

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basically, with haswell, they threw out the hard-core computer user's ability to overclock their processor so that the processor will be more powerful by default for your average casual ninny.

[steveyos]

I'm also going to be doing video editing and all sorts of things so the extra whatevers in the i7 work for that, I mean if the i5 is better htan the i7 why is it cheaper

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I'm also going to be doing video editing and all sorts of things so the extra whatevers in the i7 work for that, I mean if the i5 is better htan the i7 why is it cheaper

research whatever programs you plan on using to see if they use hyper-threading
i.e., google "does ________________ use hyperthreading?"

[steveyos]

plus like I"ve been saying I want the best stuff available that's what I'm trying to get at here I want to spend $3600 on this not a penny less I want the best, the newest, the best and the newest and the best

[steveyos]

plus I mean look at those reviews http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

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plus I mean look at those reviews http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that haswell is crap for overclocking, and sandy bridge or ivy bridge will outperform haswell when overclocked and cooled correctly

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i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that haswell is crap for overclocking, and sandy bridge or ivy bridge will outperform haswell when overclocked and cooled correctly

I would prefer something that doesn't need overclocking since it's super new and already super fast and already runs everything you throw at it for the next five years so it wouldn't really matter since if by then I'm still poor it'll only be because I"m dead

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I would prefer something that doesn't need overclocking since it's super new and already super fast and already runs everything you throw at it for the next five years so it wouldn't really matter since if by then I'm still poor it'll only be because I"m dead

that's your choice then; i personally would get a cheap i5 sandy bridge and use the money saved to cool it and overclock the fuck out of it

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I'm also going to be doing video editing and all sorts of things so the extra whatevers in the i7 work for that, I mean if the i5 is better htan the i7 why is it cheaper

the i7 is technically superior, if the software being used can take advantage of it; if it can't however, there is a small dent in performance