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

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Pemalite said:

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.

Yes! 

Not only that, but in a few years if i5's become obsolete (which I don't predict to happen so soon) then one can easily upgrade to a refurbished/used i7 on the same motherboard with the $100-$200 saving and a lower depreciated price. 

As somebody who is very much into emulation Ryzen still isn't there yet, and i7's don't add anything while modern games run great at 1080p 60fps with the right card, which is all the OP wanted.