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Originally Posted by Arclight
Just grab a 760 and clock it to 3.4GHz, done. 
* and hyperthreading is more likely to cause lesser performance in games, than an increase. |
I'd settle for i7 880 or i7 875K or i7 870 but there's no stock of either. It means I have to buya new motherboard and I'd choose LGA 1155 socket than the older LGA 1366.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Check the later graphs where they tested for example Crysis. The difference is smaller than you think.
It does not matter whether or not you have this feature or that gimmick abpoard. The difference it makes - or not - for the overtall performance is what counts. And is the additional minimal gain worth 100 euros? In some tests in those graphs the two CPU scored even identical! Does the 2500 really need HT then?
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To my understanding Crysis is not actually a heavy CPU hitter. If they used Combined Operation for the test it would be another matter. A lot of graphs would mean little unless the test is done under circumstances that would make use all the i7 2600 threads. Combined Operation would make use of all 7 threads leaving the remaining one for background task and operating system. Now test with that under significant number of AI and action and I bet there will be a big difference between the four core no HT i5 2500 and the four cores 8 HT i7 2600 because in the i5 2500, 3 core would be utilized for the game while in i72600 7 thread would.
As it is I'm aware there's so few games that actually take advantage or need of i7 full power(7 thread for application).
But in the end I haven't put off the idea of getting i5 2500 than getting i7 2600. If the difference in price is huge why not. It's not like I have to decide right away. It will need some time for the B3 motherboards to be fully stocked. Wiki states by April but I doubt that it will probably take at least another month or even 2 here. And if I'm happy with Shogun 2 performance with the new GPU I will probably postpone getting a new mobo and CPU until a year in the future.