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Tenadisic
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If you're gaming, keep your i5. It's the newest of the three and has the best IPC, and you aren't going to beat it with an i7 920.

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10 minutes ago, Tenadisic said:

So I have a system with an i5 4570 with 16gb of ram and a system with an i7 920 with 12gb of ram. should I overclock the 920 and use that. buy a 6 core xeon and overclock that. or should I just stick with my i5. my gpu is a gtx 980 if that makes any difference.

Your i5 is perfectly fine for 60hz gaming

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5 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

If you're gaming, keep your i5. It's the newest of the three and has the best IPC, and you aren't going to beat it with an i7 920.

are you sure? the i5 only runs at like 3.2 ghz and I could probaby overclock the i7 to around 4

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1 minute ago, Tenadisic said:

are you sure? the i5 only runs at like 3.2 ghz and I could probaby overclock the i7 to around 4

The i7 is also three generations older than the i5 and 4GHz wouldn't be enough to make up the gap in single core performance.

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