Help me to get a proper rated PSU

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Castout

In my knowledge i5 2500 doesn't come with hyper threading. Yes you do get 4 physical cores but no HT.

But the graphs is astounding those i5 2500s are really fast huh.

I've taken a look at the price of i7 2600. Imo it's worth having the extra threads. It's about 300 bucks here. Arma 2 and Shogun 2 and Empire or Napoleon could make use of those. Better still it looks like I'll be postponing buying the CPU an motherboard altogether for a few months until B3 motherboards are fully stocked. All more time to save.

I know buying 4 cores 8 thread CPU is not much useful if it's just running daily chores but the games which I play however few could make use of those threads

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?