| haxxiy said: 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. |
They are fine. The Quad-Core i7's aren't exactly 100x better.
The i5's are here to stay and still have years of life left in them.
i7 vs i5: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1828?vs=1826
Note the i7's 400mhz~ clock advantage.
So, lets compare the faster 200mhz~ clocked i5.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1828?vs=1832
As you can see, not massive differences.
If you can save $100-$200 by dropping down to an i5 which allows you to get a better GPU... Then do it. The GPU is more important to gaming than the difference between an i5 and i7's Hyperthreading, cache and clock rate.
| Bofferbrauer2 said: Viable, yes. But the question is how long will it be. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the month the i5 will start trailing behind Ryzen 5 chips in games because it's limited to 4 threads only. |
If you get a Ryzen Hex/Octo chip, then it will win in heavily threaded scenario's. No Question.
A heavily overclocked i5 however will beat Ryzen in anything that uses up to 4~ threads, which is pretty much every video game.
Ryzen should win over the long term as the future is Multi-threaded. But chances are you will probably upgrade by the time an i5 is regarded as useless for gaming for most users.
With that, the Core 2 Quads have managed to stick around for such a long time thanks to having more cores than needed. And my 3930K is enjoying a stupidly long life as well.
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