Heres my findings. I recently got a lenovo 510p. It has an i7 4700mq and 2 GTX 750ms in SLI . Before i unparked my cores and downloaded EVGA Precision I was getting about 20 fps at the Warpgate on the lowest settings possible settings. I logged back in after unlocking my core and slightly overclocking the cards. I was getting 120+ fps at the warpgate GPU bound. So I maxed the settings and I get a steady 50-80 fps on ultra in large fights. But in the majority of the fights I am GPU bound. In the computer I am building it will be a GTX 780 sc + i5 4670k. But the massive boost I got after unparking the cores has made me reevaluate getting an i7. Ive always been told the only difference between an i5 and i7 is that an i7 has hyper threading. But there are some i5s made with HT as well. The i7 has more cores right? So if I plan on playing a lot of ps2 wouldnt I benefit more from the i7? Should I go with a 770 + i7 4770k vs a 780 + i5 4670k. My budgt wont allow or me yo get an i7 AND a 780. At least a 4th gen k edition
i5 4670k vs i7 4770k for Planetside 2
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There are no desktop i5's with hyperthreading. A common misconception about hyperthreading is that it adds 4 virtual threads to the core count. In reality, it only takes information and more efficiently spreads it out among the 4 physical cores. Think of it as having one mouth that can chew food quickly, but only one hand to feed it. When you add hyperthreading to the picture, it adds another hand, and the two hands can put food in the mouth much faster. Having more threads would essentially be adding an extra mouth, instead of an extra hand, making it no more efficient, as the hand cannot move quick enough. In the case of gaming, it really won't help you, as games only provide the processor with enough food to only need one mouth, and one hand. The extra hand (hyperthreading), only comes into play when dealing with heavily multithreaded tasks, such as video editing, and encoding. In either the i7 or i5 build, you will still be limited by CPU in heavy battles. That is a game engine issue, not a CPU power issue. I suggest going with the i5 + 780, because it will benefit you more in pretty much any other game.
Laptops and Desktops have different designs for their processors, so yes mobile i5's are dual core with hyper-threading. Desktop i5's are not, they are actually quad cores.
Planetside 2, like many games, runs mostly on one core with some sub processes that use other cores so in general it won't scale well with more cores past a couple and you really want to have the fastest single core you can possibly get. This means you would want to go with an i5-4670k and overclock as much as you can. The much better gaming rig in general will be the i5 + 780 over the i7 + 770, and only if you are doing something that really scales well with hyperthreading (ie, some non-gaming purpose) would you ever choose the i7 over the i5.
Planetside 2, like many games, runs mostly on one core with some sub processes that use other cores so in general it won't scale well with more cores past a couple and you really want to have the fastest single core you can possibly get. This means you would want to go with an i5-4670k and overclock as much as you can. The much better gaming rig in general will be the i5 + 780 over the i7 + 770, and only if you are doing something that really scales well with hyperthreading (ie, some non-gaming purpose) would you ever choose the i7 over the i5.
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