| sc94597 said: Your CPU is not going to bottleneck gaming platforms for years. I mean, if you want some more performance from it just overclock it (I assume that is why you would buy a k series i7.) The only game that seems to even benefit from 8 threads is Dragon Age Inquisition and that is because it is so disgustingly unoptimized that it maxes four-threaded/core CPU's for no reason. Not only that, but your cores are clocked at 4.0ghz (4.4 ghz with turbo boost) and even more if you overclock it. That is fantastic IPC performance. I personally would only get an i7 if I'm doing a lot of video-processing (or similar CPU intensive activities.) Otherwise, i5's are plenty fine for gaming, and it probably won't be until the end of this generation that games will benefit greatly from more than four threads. You'd save a lot of money ($100) by just getting an i5-4690k and likely won't see any performance difference (5 fps at most in games that benefit from hyperthreading.) The same holds true for the GPU. There is no way this computer would be construed as mid-ranged. Mid-ranged would be an i3/AMD CPU + GTX 750 Ti (or r9 270.) This computer will be a high-ranged PC for at least three-four years I'm thinking. |
While it is all true what you said, a 970 will already be mid-range in maximum 2 years. By then it should be in the range of a x50ti. Don't forget we have a big shrink incoming. And games will not get more PC friendly over the next years.
In 4 years 4k will be prevalent and a 970 on 4k with a modern game engine would probably break^^
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