Help me choose a Geforce Card (and things to go with it)

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farlaff said:

sc94597 said:

Don't get an i7. Get an overclockable i5, because an i7's hyper-threading really isn't going to help much with the overwhelming majority of games, but a higher clock-rate will, especially if you become interested in emulation. 

The newest overclockable i5 is about $220-240, while the cheapest i7 (non-overclockable) is $290. 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117728&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Processors+-+Desktops-_-N82E16819117728&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyZjKBRDuARIsAKWQRbiRxt6r-X_qb3-i-4sHIb66S6aRM5hx-a3hI-KKvhXVjuiCgZfOeRwaAvpbEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

vs. 

https://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=24219&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyZjKBRDuARIsAKWQRbhgDj9nm8z_JuHEh9XvqzeoDNwD7dYogv3TUJbwHBD5uO4x4yFx0WsaAoMQEALw_wcB

Thanks for that. I'll take a look at it

Don't do it. The i5 CPUs are a dead end. No room for multitasking and a trend of worsening frame times and 1% / 0.1% lows on newer titles.

The 4 cores / 4 threads design is likely to become the i3 CPUs next year on 10 nm, by the way.