i7's - not a fan?

sillo · 27-12-2011 10:23pm #1

Just noticed that the i7 series of processor never gets a mention in the builds that get suggested on here. Just wondering why that is - is there some kind of problem or issue with them, or are they just overpriced for the performance boost they offer?

ShadowHearth · 27-12-2011 10:29pm

sillo wrote: »

Just noticed that the i7 series of processor never gets a mention in the builds that get suggested on here. Just wondering why that is - is there some kind of problem or issue with them, or are they just overpriced for the performance boost they offer?

most builds done here are for gaming.

the best CPU you need for gaming - i5 2500k. its a golden spot.

i7 2600k is very expensive and it does not give any performance over 2500k cpu in gaming.

i7 2600k = i5 2500k + hyper threading ( hyper threading is not used for games )

i7 is great if you do a lot of video encoding etc.

p.s. 2500k is just screaming for overcloking. with most better motherboards and 2500k, you can OC it with a puxh of a button to 4.2ghz

sillo · 27-12-2011 10:30pm

Aha - I had a feeling it would be something like that - thank you for clearing it up

AlmightyCushion · 27-12-2011 10:32pm

Hyper-threading can actually negatively affect gaming performance so in some cases the i7 is worse than the i5-2500k for gaming. Anything heavily threaded will benefit from it though.

teednab-el · 27-12-2011 10:32pm

sillo wrote: »

Just noticed that the i7 series of processor never gets a mention in the builds that get suggested on here. Just wondering why that is - is there some kind of problem or issue with them, or are they just overpriced for the performance boost they offer?

I think its because they are basically the same chip and i7s aint cheap..

totobyrne · 29-12-2011 3:45am

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

PseudoFamous · 29-12-2011 4:00am

totobyrne wrote: »

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

Why do they make gold plated watercooling blocks? To compensate for other "departments" which may be lacking.

totobyrne · 30-12-2011 2:28am

i7 ownes i5 lol this tread is lol

partyatmygaff · 30-12-2011 2:32am

totobyrne wrote: »

i7 ownes i5 lol this tread is lol

Do I sense someone angry about needlessly spending an extra €150?

totobyrne · 30-12-2011 3:11am

I see poor people

FlyingIrishMan · 30-12-2011 3:21am

totobyrne wrote: »

I see poor people

I see an asshole.
My bet is you don't know what your talking about, just going on what you've heard and the fact that 7 is a higher number than 5.

PseudoFamous · 30-12-2011 3:30am

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

I see an asshole.

I see either a troll or an idiot, I'm not sure which. I'll hedge my bets and say "troll" for his postcount.

Serephucus · 30-12-2011 10:38am

He has three posts.

Do not feed the troll.

totobyrne · 31-12-2011 4:27am

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

PseudoFamous · 31-12-2011 4:30am

totobyrne wrote: »

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

Shoo troll. Back to your troll hole.

totobyrne · 02-01-2012 3:37am

No im not a troll , just people saying that i5 is better then i7 pisses me off

Eogcloud · 02-01-2012 4:00am

totobyrne wrote: »

No im not a troll , just people saying that i5 is better then i7 pisses me off

what makes you think it's superior? Give reasons please.

totobyrne · 02-01-2012 4:10am

Eogcloud wrote: »

what makes you think it's superior? Give reasons please.

so i5 is superior ? tell me more ?

Eogcloud · 02-01-2012 4:15am

totobyrne wrote: »

so i5 is superior ? tell me more ?

I never said that. I asked you why the i7 is superior.

Unregistered. · 02-01-2012 4:17am

Improbable · 02-01-2012 4:22am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kPUFxXYLs

_AVALANCHE_ · 02-01-2012 4:28am

totobyrne · 02-01-2012 4:44am

well tbh you get what you pay for, if youre on the scratch go with the i5 its not going to affect wow or bf3 , but if youre into your in to high end shizz like iracer with 3 33 screens i7 is a must have :cool:

Eogcloud · 02-01-2012 4:48am

totobyrne wrote: »

well tbh you get what you pay for if your on the scratch go with the i5 its not going to affect wow or bf3 , but if your into your in to high end shizz like iracer with 3 33 screens i7 is a must have :cool:

Charlie Haughy · 02-01-2012 4:57am

totobyrne wrote: »

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

totobyrne wrote: »

i7 ownes i5 lol this tread is lol

totobyrne wrote: »

I see poor people

totobyrne wrote: »

so why are all the top gameing rigs i7s ?

totobyrne wrote: »

No im not a troll , just people saying that i5 is better then i7 pisses me off

totobyrne wrote: »

so i5 is superior ? tell me more ?

Eogcloud wrote: »

I never said that. I asked you why the i7 is superior.

totobyrne wrote: »

well tbh you get what you pay for, if youre on the scratch go with the i5 its not going to affect wow or bf3 , but if youre into your in to high end shizz like iracer with 3 33 screens i7 is a must have :cool:

aN.Droid · 02-01-2012 5:13am

totobyrne wrote: »

well tbh you get what you pay for, if youre on the scratch go with the i5 its not going to affect wow or bf3 , but if youre into your in to high end shizz like iracer with 3 33 screens i7 is a must have :cool:

No it's not.

totobyrne · 02-01-2012 5:23am

i7 Alienware whoohoo ftw lol at i5s just lol

Trevor451 · 02-01-2012 5:33am

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=287

Have a look at the games. In some cases (starcraft 2 for example) the i5 2500k preforms better

totobyrne · 02-01-2012 5:36am

will post utube video of my i7 rig later today 3 screens

TheReverend · 02-01-2012 5:42am

totobyrne wrote: »

will post utube video of my i7 rig later today 3 screens

this aint /v/ go away

aN.Droid · 02-01-2012 5:52am

totobyrne wrote: »

will post utube video of my i7 rig later today 3 screens

You mean the rig which is basically an expensive overpriced dell? LOL. grats on paying probably 2x-3x the price on components

kowloon · 02-01-2012 6:25am

Have an i7 with liquid cooling, have it clocked @ 3.8GHz as it seems to run everything fine, but so does my housemate's machine which has an i5. We both have the same gpus and ram to spare.

What I did notice was my machine is a lot smoother with the ssd. If you're forced to choose I'd get the i5 over the i7 and put the savings into an ssd.

beno619 · 02-01-2012 11:06am

Putting all this trolling aside.. The i5 gets such a good rating because of the performance/value and "overclockability" over the i7, it's the people's champ and has one several user and editor choice awards and that's a fact .

Of course the i7 is better, but for an extra €80, 99 % of people will say the i5 is a better deal.

sillo · 02-01-2012 11:18am

:D:D:D:D

Who knew my innocuous little question would turn boards.ie into 4chan....

nesf · 02-01-2012 12:18pm

sillo wrote: »

:D:D:D:D

Who knew my innocuous little question would turn boards.ie into 4chan....

This is all your fault...

Though not as bad as the poor guy who asked whether AMD or Intel was better and asked for it not to turn into a flamewar.

ShadowHearth · 02-01-2012 2:48pm

nesf wrote: »

This is all your fault...

Though not as bad as the poor guy who asked whether AMD or Intel was better and asked for it not to turn into a flamewar.

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

Unregistered. · 02-01-2012 2:52pm

@tototroll, the situation is like this. The i7 has hyper-threading. THAT'S THE ONLY DIFFERENCE. It's great on highly multi-threaded apps because it has double the amount of registers, allowing for super-fast context switching and simultaneous process scheduling.

The €100 question: is the i7 worth the extra ~ €100? Yes. If your work depends on it. For everything else, put the €100 quid towards something else and get the i5. Be it a bigger and better SSD, better gfx card, speakers, monitor, case, water cooling, chair, mouse, keyboard, headphones, games, porn, or towards savings for future upgrades to all of the above. It's definitely not worth spending an extra five-score just to troll on boards, I feel I need to tell you that.

aN.Droid · 02-01-2012 6:06pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

Intel integrated graphics wins obviously! :pac:

PseudoFamous · 02-01-2012 6:09pm

Limericks wrote: »

Intel integrated graphics wins obviously! :pac:

NVIDIA, so.

Solitaire · 02-01-2012 6:56pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

PseudoFamous wrote: »

NVIDIA, so.

*unholsters BanHammer...*

Seriously, I'm impressed that this thread has gone on so long with no lolcats in sight... :pac:

Leaving thread open for constructive input; the next time toto trolls he's getting permabanned from this forum and other Mods warned of his existence in case he decides to inhabit their dungeons instead.

Serephucus · 02-01-2012 7:02pm

Really, for most things, the i5 is excellent. Yes, hyperthreading gives you about a 60% boost in applications that will use it (which aren't many), but it also gives you:

10°C higher temperatures under load.
0.2V higher voltage requirement for stability (roughly)

To be honest, I'd take the i5 and get a higher overclock, unless I was on water. (which I am, so I'd get an i7 :P)

nesf · 02-01-2012 7:30pm

I'll admit I kind of wish in some ways I'd gotten an i7. But I'd have to turn off hyperthreading for some games so it'd have been quite a bit of hassle so probably not worth it for the speed increases I'd see with some of the jobs I'd put the PC doing.

ShadowHearth · 02-01-2012 8:35pm

i7... pfffffffff amatures

intel pentium I like a boss!

Intel-s-15W-Pentium-350-CPU-Now-Available-Targets-Micro-Servers-2.jpg

totobyrne · 04-03-2012 3:12am

war

Solitaire wrote: »

*unholsters BanHammer...*
e ning
Seriously, I'm impressed that this thread has gone on so long with no lolcats in sight... :pac:

Leaving thread open for constructive input; the next time toto trolls he's getting permabanned from this forum and other Mods warned of his existence in case he decides to inhabit their dungeons instead.

So I get "permabanned" for speaking my mind I always thought that was the point of forums unless you live in china or syria , but thanks for the warning,

deconduo · 04-03-2012 3:16am

totobyrne wrote: »

war
So I get "permabanned" for speaking my mind I always thought that was the point of forums unless you live in china or syria , but thanks for the warning,

Why on earth would you bump a 3 month old thread to post that?

Edit: Ah, a troll.

Solitaire · 04-03-2012 5:28am

Someone's altaccount (or a very ill-mannered new poster) has just declared "war" with a Mod while simultaneously calling his bluff and effectively necroing a thread that should have been left to die in order to do it.

Darwin Awards. This thread just became a victim of them. As has the troll - come back from your "holiday" with the same attitude and you'll be given a much longer one next time. You're just being incredibly silly over this whole thing.

Goodnight.

i7's - not a fan?

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