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System Name | Daedalus |
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Processor | AMD FX 6300 |
Motherboard | ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0 |
Cooling | Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO |
Memory | 8GB Kingston HyperX Genesis (2x4GB) |
Video Card(s) | MSI R9 270X Gaming 2GB |
Storage | 1TB Seagate Barracuda |
Display(s) | LG Flatron E2442 (main - 24in 1080p) |
Case | NZXT Phantom 410 (Gunmetal Edition) |
Power Supply | XFX Pro 650W |
Mouse | Steelseries Siberia [RAW] |
The I7 in the Ops original build plan fitted into his budget and you haven't changed my mind
Its not an 8-core processor though. The only real benefit of using an i7 would be mostly seen in video editing programs, where the extra threads can help with rendering, and perhaps in intense FPS games. Both i5 and i7 processors have the same number of physical cores, therefore there is little benefit of using the i7 in a gaming setting, unless you are playing intense FPS games. This applies for future games as well - four cores is four cores.
EDIT: In this review, they tested both Haswell i5 and i7 K processors in Crysis 3 and Metro: Last Light, which IMO is the closest we have to what future gaming performance will be like, and there was only a few frames in it in terms of their 1080p performance. And that could just be down to the fact you can't create perfect benchmarking conditions.
Layton
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