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Tyrone Friskie

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I am building a gaming rig in about a month, i had been planning on getting a 3570k/4670k (which ever is cheaper via black friday/cyber monday sales), i was wondering if it would be better performance wise (and "future proof" per say) to go with 3770k/4770k for HT since it seems more and more games coming out for the start of next gen is utilizing 8 cores.
 
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aznricepuff

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If you can afford it then go for the 3770k/4770k. It will be better for future proofing.

Otherwise the i5 is perfectly fine for gaming. You may even want to spend the money you save on it on a better GPU, since that is more likely to bottleneck your system than the CPU.
 
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Well, let me tell you this, I myself was deciding about it like a month ago. I went with I7-4770 in the end. To put it bluntly, I think Hyper-Threading is more of the psychological thing, you know the insecure "but what if" one.

I did a lot of research and the outcome is that most probably Hyper Threading won't be a major factor in the nearest 2 years at least and I very well doubt it will be significant after that either. The "more and more" games part is now realistically like 2 games, where you can actually see Hyper Threading doing something when you look at numbers, but the difference is small, to put it bluntly - you won't give a damn about getting let's say 47 min FPS vs 44 FPS in that rare game which actually benefits from HT.

I went for I7 just for a peace in my mind, but realistically it does not matter much anyway.
 
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Tyrone Friskie

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With the budget im working with the next step up in GPU cant be achieved.

I am getting a R9 280x (which is on par with a 770), the jump to a R9 290x/780 would be 300$ more.

So HT give either one of those i7's a boost in games optimized for 8 cores, such as BF4?
 
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HT probably won't be used much in games. Even if it is the performance increase won't be worth 100.00. It isn't like AMD's physical cores that would otherwise sit idle. HT tries running another thread through a core whenever there is downtime on the cpu core, it isn't always available and would be very very hard to code for.

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You can also take the money you save and get 2 GTX 760s instead of the R9 280x and have much higher performance.
 
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Tyrone Friskie

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Being i would have to up my PSU aswell no.

i7 3770k and the R9-280x build brings me to 900$ flat.

i5 3570k and 2 GTX760 Build brings me to 1130$
 
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