i7's - not a fan?

kowloon

Have an i7 with liquid cooling, have it clocked @ 3.8GHz as it seems to run everything fine, but so does my housemate's machine which has an i5. We both have the same gpus and ram to spare.

What I did notice was my machine is a lot smoother with the ssd. If you're forced to choose I'd get the i5 over the i7 and put the savings into an ssd.

beno619

Putting all this trolling aside.. The i5 gets such a good rating because of the performance/value and "overclockability" over the i7, it's the people's champ and has one several user and editor choice awards and that's a fact .

Of course the i7 is better, but for an extra €80, 99 % of people will say the i5 is a better deal.

sillo

:D:D:D:D

Who knew my innocuous little question would turn boards.ie into 4chan....

nesf

sillo wrote: »

:D:D:D:D

Who knew my innocuous little question would turn boards.ie into 4chan....

This is all your fault...


Though not as bad as the poor guy who asked whether AMD or Intel was better and asked for it not to turn into a flamewar.

ShadowHearth

nesf wrote: »

This is all your fault...


Though not as bad as the poor guy who asked whether AMD or Intel was better and asked for it not to turn into a flamewar.

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

Unregistered.

@tototroll, the situation is like this. The i7 has hyper-threading. THAT'S THE ONLY DIFFERENCE. It's great on highly multi-threaded apps because it has double the amount of registers, allowing for super-fast context switching and simultaneous process scheduling.

The €100 question: is the i7 worth the extra ~ €100? Yes. If your work depends on it. For everything else, put the €100 quid towards something else and get the i5. Be it a bigger and better SSD, better gfx card, speakers, monitor, case, water cooling, chair, mouse, keyboard, headphones, games, porn, or towards savings for future upgrades to all of the above. It's definitely not worth spending an extra five-score just to troll on boards, I feel I need to tell you that.

aN.Droid

ShadowHearth wrote: »

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

Intel integrated graphics wins obviously! :pac:

PseudoFamous

Limericks wrote: »

Intel integrated graphics wins obviously! :pac:

NVIDIA, so.

Solitaire

ShadowHearth wrote: »

now to wrap all up we need "which is better? NVIDIA or ATI GPUs?"

PseudoFamous wrote: »

NVIDIA, so.

*unholsters BanHammer...*

Seriously, I'm impressed that this thread has gone on so long with no lolcats in sight... :pac:

Leaving thread open for constructive input; the next time toto trolls he's getting permabanned from this forum and other Mods warned of his existence in case he decides to inhabit their dungeons instead.

Serephucus

Really, for most things, the i5 is excellent. Yes, hyperthreading gives you about a 60% boost in applications that will use it (which aren't many), but it also gives you:

10°C higher temperatures under load.
0.2V higher voltage requirement for stability (roughly)

To be honest, I'd take the i5 and get a higher overclock, unless I was on water. (which I am, so I'd get an i7 :P)

nesf

I'll admit I kind of wish in some ways I'd gotten an i7. But I'd have to turn off hyperthreading for some games so it'd have been quite a bit of hassle so probably not worth it for the speed increases I'd see with some of the jobs I'd put the PC doing.

ShadowHearth

i7... pfffffffff amatures

intel pentium I like a boss!

totobyrne

war

Solitaire wrote: »

*unholsters BanHammer...*
e ning
Seriously, I'm impressed that this thread has gone on so long with no lolcats in sight... :pac:

Leaving thread open for constructive input; the next time toto trolls he's getting permabanned from this forum and other Mods warned of his existence in case he decides to inhabit their dungeons instead.

So I get "permabanned" for speaking my mind I always thought that was the point of forums unless you live in china or syria , but thanks for the warning,

deconduo

totobyrne wrote: »

war
So I get "permabanned" for speaking my mind I always thought that was the point of forums unless you live in china or syria , but thanks for the warning,

Why on earth would you bump a 3 month old thread to post that?

Edit: Ah, a troll.

Solitaire

Someone's altaccount (or a very ill-mannered new poster) has just declared "war" with a Mod while simultaneously calling his bluff and effectively necroing a thread that should have been left to die in order to do it.

Darwin Awards. This thread just became a victim of them. As has the troll - come back from your "holiday" with the same attitude and you'll be given a much longer one next time. You're just being incredibly silly over this whole thing.

Goodnight.