Gaming Rig. 2 Or 4 Cores?

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JackST

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It's probably been asked before but...
i'm building a gaming PC (Most likely hackintosh, With dual boot) should i get the Core i3-3225 which is dual core (£100), or the core i5-3570K which is quad core (£180)?
I don't think i'll ever be doing any editing, and the most demanding games i will be playing will be GTA V, battlefield 4, Dirt etc (in the future of course).
Am I better getting the dual core and buying a better graphics card & SSD?

BUT.. Will games in the future use more than 2 cores (I know that battlefield 3 can use up to 6 cores but apparently it doesn't really make a difference)? Or will i just have to upgrade my graphics card in the future?

Thanks!
 
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Andreas414
First off, just to clarify, the 3570K does not have hyperthreading. It's just the i7s (3770K, in the case of Ivy Bridge) that are hyperthreaded.
Personally, I'd go with the 3570K. Games are starting to use more cores already, and if you ever plan on any multitasking while gaming (such as screen recording, running a VOIP client, etc.,) having those extra cores are even more helpful. Although an SSD can make a system run faster overall, the only effect it has in games is reducing loading times, and even that's hit-and-miss. (SWTOR, to name an example, loads just as slowly on an SSD.) Anyway, an SSD is easier to add into your system later if you have the money than upgrading your CPU would be.
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the 3570k is one of the best CPUs out there when it comes to gaming if you ask me, especially for it's price,
+ It's got Hyperthreading, so it's basically gives the CPU 4 virtual cores, so in total you get four actual cores and four virtual cores, the virtual cores mainly help with processing multiple threads at once.

and for SSD, the only thing SSD really does is give you faster response time, quicker boot-up for Windows and for gaming, however it comes at the expense of not as much actual Data.
 
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First off, just to clarify, the 3570K does not have hyperthreading. It's just the i7s (3770K, in the case of Ivy Bridge) that are hyperthreaded.
Personally, I'd go with the 3570K. Games are starting to use more cores already, and if you ever plan on any multitasking while gaming (such as screen recording, running a VOIP client, etc.,) having those extra cores are even more helpful. Although an SSD can make a system run faster overall, the only effect it has in games is reducing loading times, and even that's hit-and-miss. (SWTOR, to name an example, loads just as slowly on an SSD.) Anyway, an SSD is easier to add into your system later if you have the money than upgrading your CPU would be.
 
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Hmm. Appears I was told wrong on this one, thanks for setting that straight!
 
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