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I've seen a few people trying to push the i7 recently, and I'll restate this again.
The i7 DOES NOT help you get better performance in any game. NO GAMES USE HYPERTHREADING in a manner that garners any sort of visible FPS increase. Most gamers actually suggest that you disable hyperthreading in the BIOS so it doesn't slow down your gaming. Oh, it's $100 more than the i5 as well. Here are some questions you should ask yourself: Do I run a Fortune 500 database on my Gaming Rig? Am I currently running simulations for medical research? Am I currently farming my PC out for generic number crunching research? Do I spend hours a day encoding/decoding audio or video? Am I spending hours a day using the newest version of Photoshop to edit Gigapixel photos? Notice how I said "hours" for those last two? That's because you would have to spend hours, multiple hours using those programs before you even saved a minute by using hyperthreading. Before you drop an additional $100 on an i7 processor, you need to know that it will make ZERO difference in your Cliffs of Dover gaming. That money would be better put towards a $100 more expensive video card, or maybe a $50 more expensive video card and 2-4GB more RAM so you can create a RAM drive to help combat stuttering. |
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