Only for Gaming i7 3770 is better or i5 3570?

[minitron]

You can clock the i7 just as high as the i5. In no way is the i5 superior to the i7 except power consumption.

guys turbo boost 2.0 gives more clock speed for all cores or just for one ? form what i read ... turbo boost 1.0 gives more clock only to single core but turbo boost 2.0 to all cores ... is that correct ?

They work the same for the most part. The maximum boost in each case is only for a single core.

If you're looking into unlocked Intel chips TB shouldn't be relevant. If you're looking at locked CPUs just leave it as is.

 

[AsusGuy]

i5 is the way to go. HT will be of little to no benefit for games and is not worth the cost increase. By the time games need/use more than 4 cores both CPUs will be out of date and HT will not be making a difference for you on the i7. For Ivy your best benefit will be in memory bandwidth and clock speed. OC the chip and get the highest clocked RAM you can afford.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

For gaming, i5-3570K @ 4.3GHz is better and less expensive than i7-3770 at 3.5-3.9GHz, even with the additional cost of a capable aftermarket cooler. If money is not much of an object though, as the plans for 670 SLI would suggest, get i7-3770K and OC that.

There are going to be folks who are happy as pigs in s*** about their i5-3570K. Me . . . I'd fry my own tostadas, make my own taco-meat, and save the money from ten Mexican dinner carry-outs to pay for the i7-3770K . . . My tostadas are better, anyway . . .

 

[cmdrdredd]

There are going to be folks who are happy as pigs in s*** about their i5-3570K. Me . . . I'd fry my own tostadas, make my own taco-meat, and save the money from ten Mexican dinner carry-outs to pay for the i7-3770K . . . My tostadas are better, anyway . . .

I could have gotten the 3930k and X79 I could have gotten the 3770k. I didn't because I really didn't need it and saw no point for myself.

 

[oceanside]

I'd go with the i7... more and more games will be written as multithreaded apps. You'll be better equipped to handle the newer titles with an i7 a couple years down the road. Think of it as mild futureproofing.

 

[Hatisherrif]

Never think about futureproofing. Nothing is futureproof. Get what you want and need now. In this case, the i5 seems like a good choice because getting something like the i7 for gaming is just for bragging rights.

 

[Ventanni]

I don't upgrade often anymore, so I went with the 3770k for bragging rights. I mean, might as well be honest.

 

[boxleitnerb]

In most CPU-bottlenecked gaming scenarios, HT on is slower than HT off. And threads != threads. In some games, additional real cores will net a benefit while additional threads through HT will not.

So get the 3570K. For the saved money, get a SSD.

 

[brandon888]

SSD ? i don't are about loading times

 

[boxleitnerb]

Then buy a pair of pants, go dining with your gf etc.

 

[Puppies04]

SSD ? i don't are about loading times

SSD can just be for your OS/programs. Games don't really benefit from SSDs very much at all but it makes your surfing/general computing experience a lot "snappier"

I know you say you don't upgrade very often but there will be a window of about 6 months (or 3 or 4 games if you prefer to look at it that way) where the 3570K isn't enough and the 3770K still is, games developers don't tend to waste time coding for things like HT because only a fraction of their customers have it.

Also from what I have seen the I5's tend to overclock slightly higher than the I7's because they are thermally limited and HT produces more heat.

You can argue this either way but the simple fact of the matter is by the time you have spent $150 more on a top of the range mobo to allow you to get a slightly faster overclock, $100 more on the I7 over the I5 and probably $50 more on a top of the range air or closed water cpu cooler you would have been able to spend that money on a haswell upgrade in a couple of years time and end up with a system that will make your IB setup look obsolete (which it will be).

 

[aayjaay]

Funny how the i7's $100 more expensive than the i5 in the US but £100 more expensive in the UK :'(

 

[ShintaiDK]

Funny how the i7's $100 more expensive than the i5 in the US but £100 more expensive in the UK :'(

And without salestax?

 

[Puppies04]

Funny how the i7's $100 more expensive than the i5 in the US but £100 more expensive in the UK :'(

I find it funnier that the prices work on close to a 1:1 basis when we get 1.55ish $ to the £.

No use moaning about it though it isn't likely to change any time soon.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Prices are roughly the same when you remove any taxes. Danish price fits perfectly fine with MSRP prices+25% VAT for example. Same on Geizhals.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I could have gotten the 3930k and X79 I could have gotten the 3770k. I didn't because I really didn't need it and saw no point for myself.

. . . and given my subject remark of your post, that's duly noted. After what I've seen with this Sandy Bridge and long "discussion-retreats" on the memory, I'm looking at what I actually do with my machine, and what I want yet to do with it. I don't even think I shall ever build another SLI rig with even two graphics adapters.

On that other thread . . . whassisname? . . . Kastor Krieg . . .

If I can get to DDR3-1866 and an AIDA64 "latency" value of 41ns on this Sandy, and if the most one can do for an IB is get DDR3-2400 and OC it for a lot of bucks while waiting for DDR3-3200, by the time I build one, I may just opt for the i5. And by that time, a 670 dGPU will be last-year's/