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Half_feet

Half_feet

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Hellow everybody happy new year, i need to change my cpu but i want to buy a cpu for long term 10 years espacially for gaming, so is an i5 will be good or it must be i7,and If i5 will be excellent for high-end future games... and thanx a lot
 
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rolli59
Eventually the I7 will be better currently it is not in most but lets presume that in the future we will get games that will benefit from the 8 thread capability of the I7. The longer you keep it the more chance is that will be the case.
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HumdrumPenguin

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I'm certain you can't find any piece of hardware that's 10 years future proof, nor I'd recommend any real expensive CPU. I think 4670k is one of the best to recommend nowadays. Architecture changes, so will the hardware. Let's just suppose you'd go for one of the bests in the market:

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-4960X-Extreme-Processors-BX80633I74960X/dp/B00EMHM6JK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389020660&sr=8-1&keywords=i7+4990x

you'd end up paying 4 times the price of another good one,

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i5-4670-Quad-Core-Processor-BX80646I54670/dp/B00CO8TBR4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389020735&sr=8-2&keywords=i5+4670k

So, why not just save the extra money and upgrade every 3 years. (Motherboard would need an upgrade too due to it's socket)
 
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Half_feet

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thanx a lot ,please i need a just hint for future games demands, will it need a higher than quad core cpu ??
really thank you
 
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rolli59

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Eventually the I7 will be better currently it is not in most but lets presume that in the future we will get games that will benefit from the 8 thread capability of the I7. The longer you keep it the more chance is that will be the case.
 
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Half_feet

Half_feet

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thanx alot pro
 
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