better cpu?

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Damascus said:

The game benchmarks support me as well.  The i7 is consistent neck and neck with i5 in games but does better in some situations where the extra cores are really useful.  The artificial benches are really bad for 3770 but the games speak for themselves

 

 

Addressing it now

 

Now count how many games did it beat versus how many games an i5 beats. Hope you do the math well. And who said he must play CPU demanding game? 

And i5 6500 offers upgradability too. Let's get a cpu that barely beating an modern i5 6600 so a poor user who is on budget can spend few years later on new ddr4 ram, mobo too. 

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, Damascus said:

@deXxterlab97 and @ARikozuM

Note  GTA5, that heavy core use on CPU is  what I'm talking about.  More and more games will use those cores

They're actually neck and neck on GTA5 with the i7 dropping below 60Hz 28.88% of the time vs 22%.

[Damascus]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

They're actually neck and neck on GTA5 with the i7 dropping below 60Hz 28.88% of the time.

Look at the bottlenecks for the GTX 980 GTA 5, I doubt OP is getting a 290X on a budget but an RX 480/GTX 1060 (comp 980) are rather likely options.

 

Eh thats very true, RN however the i7 will be better for triple A (biggest supporters of multi threading) **often** 

6 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

And i5 6500 offers upgradability too. Let's get a cpu that barely beating an modern i5 6600 so a poor user who is on budget can spend few years later on new ddr4 ram, mobo too. 

 

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Look at the bottlenecks for the GTX 980 GTA 5, I doubt OP is getting a 290X on a budget but an RX 480/GTX 1060 (comp 980) are rather likely options.

What? I'm citing the 980 numbers/scores.

[Damascus]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

What? I'm citing the 980 numbers/scores.

Erg, sorry.  I'm rather tired ATM.  I guess the i5 could  be worthwhile if just for upgrade-ability @Ronnie46 

I hadn't thought of it and I think I'm with you guys now on the i5 @deXxterlab97

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Damascus said:

Erg, sorry.  I'm rather tired ATM.  I guess the i5 could  be worthwhile if just for upgrade-ability @Ronnie46 

I hadn't thought of it and I think I'm with you guys now on the i5 @deXxterlab97

I'm glad we came to an understanding...

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