MorningWood

I have a 780. gibe nao, no plz!

Mouse. Cause I have a crappy $3 noname chinese one at home.

Whatever. I want a Kiro cause it's a funny name in my country and I never won anything in my life.

Fellas, you spammed the thread pretty well with no useful information whatsoever. Whats up with that? However, SkilledRebuilds, thank you for your input. We are not talking about gaming or if this cpu is enough. When it "fires up" with continuous load it performs the way it should, respectably close to the i7. Based on single threaded benchmarks around the net, the cores of 3220 and 2500k are pretty much equally strong. This is why I was wondering why do I feel worse performance, the lack of HT or something I'm missing. Or maybe if an issue with the cpu is possible. According to CPU-Z with the energy saving (c1 c3 c6) and speedstepping, the lowest freq. is 1600mhz. I tried disabling everything and I THINK it is better, but I am not sure, might be another factor in there. But either way, if the energy saving protocols are hitting my performance during browsing (which is basically idle), that's not cool. I've got an SSD and 8gb of ram. We are not looking at an issue there. I'm swapping 3 cpu's from all classes, the system is the same.

Alright. I've been using i3 3220, thought it was weak sometimes for browsing, and definitely for video editing. I got an i5 2500k and an i7 2600k for testing. The 2600k is doing fine, significantly smoother browsing experience than the i3, but the i5 is feeling weird. I think it is executing simple protocols slower than the i3?! But at video editing it is doing pretty well, close to the i7 and way better than the i3. Now, is it because of the lack of HT? Is it performing this way normally or is there something wrong with it? Or do I need to tweak something in the bios? I am using a stock cooler for testing, so no overclock. To clarify, an example would be, when I open a photo in facebook and click on blank space to close it, it takes a longer moment to close it, than even the i3?! Same for other simple things, like closing all the tabs to the right etc.

Thank you. Any other recommendations guys? Or is it really constricted at this budget?

Hi, guys. I'm not much of a sound quality guy (I hardly ever find a difference), so is it possible to buy comfortable sound isolating headset for under 50 euro? Also does headsets with rectangular ear pieces feel comfortable? Like the ones on CM Headset Storm Pulse-R? A store that is convinient for me only has CM Ceres 400, CM Ceres 500, Logitech G430 and the above mentioned Storm Pulse-R Are they worth spending time talking about them? If not eligible I can use ebay.de. Educate me on what should I be looking for, please.