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    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Better, particularly vis-a-vis non-gaming. i* is a new and superior topology over the outgoing i2 (Core2) technology. Also, i7s and up have HyperThreading, giving increases of up to 100% in massively-multithreaded applications (as they are effectively running on 8 virtual cores instead of 4 physical ones). Downside is high power consumption and HT can cause issues and slowdown with linearised apps - typically networking and gaming.

    Both those CPUs aren't worth it - they're very overpriced. The i7-920 (LGA1366) and i7-860 (LGA1156) are far better bets. The cheaper i5-750 (LGA1156) is also very good, especially if you're not running anything that really needs HT.


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    Deano12345
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Deano12345


    Khannie wrote: »
    Can someone explain the price differential between these two processors for me?

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=460927
    and
    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=365998

    Is the i7 architecture that much better?

    i7 is much better than the Q9650.i7 has multithreading and socket 1366 is more future proofed than 775


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    Khannie
    Registered Users Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Nice one. Cheers.


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