Which System is better?

[rirawin]

Cpu: i5 2500k 

Ram: 8GB DDR3 1600 Mhz 

Cooling: Antec AIO water cooler with Gentle Typhoon fan 

Mobo: Asrock 1155 overclocking motherboard 

Psu: Mushkin Power supply modded with Noctua silent fan 

Case: Black Bitfenix Prodigy 

Ssd: 60GB OCZ SSD 

 

 

vs 

 

GEFORCE GTX 660 GAMING PC  it has a 1 TB hard drive, Kingston 8 GB Ram, cooler master 700 watt power pack,cooler master heat sink Intel ®CORE I5-3350p cpu @ 3.10GHZ 3.30GHZ processor,Motherboard is ultra durable Z77-D-S3H,red LED fan the tower is cool master CMstorm scout

 

Which is better?

[flibberdipper]

2500K computer, even though it doesn't have a GPU (those can be bought cheap) and only have a 60GB SSD and no hard drive.

[rirawin]

How come?, thought a third gen i5 would be better?

 

How much better is it though?.

[dmanschramm]

@rirawin

 

Well that depends... If you're looking at CPU performance, the first one will beat out the second one by a little bit. The first one has limited storage space whereas the second one has 1TB to work with (mind you it's HDD but you can still use a 1TB HDD for mass storage whereas a 60GB SSD will get you the OS plus a couple things - I would replace it). Also, the second computer shows 2 different clock speeds for the processor... anyways I would personally go for the second one unless you want CPU performance out of the first. The first one has no GPU rendering it useless for gaming at all, and an overall degraded user experience.

 

Hope this helps

[rirawin]

Cool, I shall indeed pick the 2nd one, plus it has a nice case:)

[dnkgaming]

Id go with the second one unless you plan on upgrading your hard drive and gpu later.

[rirawin]

Apologies I do have a GTX 480 my friend has given me to put in the 2500k version, however, the first one is slightly cheaper.

 

The 2500k is £200

 

the i5 3350p is £270

 

I want to do photoshopping, after effects and zbrush. Casual gaming on the side, but its not important now.

[rirawin]

So before I decide, majority feel the 2nd is better yes?.

[rirawin]

Anyone?

[adman29]

Do the second one. It's a bit better for upgrading, plus with only an 80gb ssd, you'll be strapped for space. Though a gpu is cheap, it's nice to have one already with it

[rirawin]

Do the second one. It's a bit better for upgrading, plus with only an 80gb ssd, you'll be strapped for space. Though a gpu is cheap, it's nice to have one already with it

Thanks is just the 2500k has the better benchmarks which had me confused And undecided