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that would work fine. i suggest to switch the mobo to latest intel mobo and switch processor to i7

I would think so, of course it will depend on what games come out and you play

haha true but an i7 is an 8 core and i think you would last more years up to date with an 8 core cpu

lol dog no need to get pissed. some young bucks are still new to pc hardware and have no time to look up new stuff constantly. i saw a few things say it was 8 core so i thought it was 8 core. thanks for the info though.

Agreed the "only" again i will say "only" processors with 8 cores are the FX-8xxx Series, i7's have 4 cores in hyper-threading (8 fake cores, or 4 real cores and 4 fake cores). The reason that i7's are a lot better then the FX-8xxx series is because of the fact that they are hyper threaded i5's basically (or hyper-threaded quad cores), that is the reason also that the i7 can not truly be compared to the FX-8xxx series. Also the FX-8xxx series outweighs the i7 in any program that can fully utilize 5+ cores. This is simply because the i7 (after 4 cores) has to have a "double load" on anything for cores 5-8 (hyper-threaded split cores is what i call them), where as the AMD FX-8xxx series has a real core for everything that can use cores 5-8, therefore because it doesn't need to "double load" everything on the first 4 cores, it's performance outweighs the i7. I know this since i work with both (the i7 is my work computer & my AMD FX-8350 is my home computer). So the use of the processor comes down to what you want to use it for. If multi-cored performance (5+ cores) is what you want the the FX-8xxx series is a great choice, if your after programs that only use 1-4 cores then i7 is better. Hope this helps clear things up a little bit. Reason I run an AMD FX-8350 is because my home computer runs Media-monkey which can utilize as many cores as it gets thrown at it (also Winamp is the same way) (which is awesome), and I can encode about 600 songs from 96 kbps to 320 kbps in about 10 minutes flat, since it does about 60 songs a minute or about 7.5 songs in each core a minute. Sure beats that old P4 Hyper-threaded & over-clocked to 3.5 GHz I was running for the longest time. The i5's are the pick for gaming for a number of reasons. I will explain them, so everyone understands why they outweigh the i7 and the AMD FX 8xxx series. The i5's are quad core (4-core) cpu processors, that do not have the hyper threading feature as the i7's do. This is better for games since most games (even the new games) don't utilize more then 4 cores, and can't not use the extra cores that the FX-8xxx series has or the hyper-threaded (split) cores that the i7 has. Also since it is a quad-core and there isn't everything extra to push around (4 more cores in the FX series or the hyper-threading of an i7) they are generally (not always) a little bit faster. Now the difference is that most programs on a computer can't even utilize more then 4 cores which is also why the quad core is still the standard for computers bought in big box stores. Also the FX 8xxx series has a different agriculture then the i7, and utilizes it's extra cores to smooth out any applications or games that only utilize the first 4 cores (acts like a buffer), that said the i5 or the i7 will still heavily outweigh the FX-8xxx series in speed, and anything that doesn't require 5+ cores. Hope this helps.

If you mean me I was not "pissed" if I came of that I am sorry that was not my intention.

While the i7 does indeed only have 4 physical cores with 8 threads, it does perform faster than the i5, but only a small percentage in games and some games that takes advantage of HT you will see noticable difference.

Having said that if you are a gamer, you would rather go with an i5 and spend the 80-100 bucks extra on an improved GPU. Where the i7 really shine is in video and picture processing. If you plan to edit video (encoding, etc) then the i7 will be a no brainer. If you are mostly gaming, the i5 is the best option. If you don't plan to OC, you can stick to the non-K version and a H87 mobo (instead of the Z87).

Another thing about the i7 and 4 cores w/ Hyperthreading, it out performs the 'true' 8 core AMD CPUs quite handily - of course at a bit of a price premium, the the true 4 core i5s like the 4670K also outperform the higher AMD FX CPUs in everything except rendering clock for clock