I just purchased this thing in black friday

[maks]

My gaming rig is still running a phenom 2 x6 and everything works just peachy, I don't understand why people buy i7's for gaming machines it's a waste of money an i5 or even the right i3 would be just as good

[juji]

My gaming rig is still running a phenom 2 x6 and everything works just peachy, I don't understand why people buy i7's for gaming machines it's a waste of money an i5 or even the right i3 would be just as good

Because of marketing, Intel tried to jew the gamers if they want complete 60 fps for all games, obviously it was a myth because it doesnt notice a lot because the games are focused on graphic rendering which is used by graphic card, CPU only calls GPU to render something.

Also a good cpu can execute the game very faster but it's not part of requirement since cpu is required to calculate or to simulate the process.

We ve seen the games are running with old cpu like celeron or qualcomm and good gpu card, it works fine after all.