i5 + ssd and hdd or i7 + hdd

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Nik Golob

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Hi
What to pair with evga gtx 980 sc acx 2.0?
I will be playing arma 3 ,bf4,skyrim heavy modded ,dayz standalone,ac unity,far cry 4.......
I will be recording with shadowplay and edit them with sony vegas ....
I'm not sure what to pick .
The ssd would be 120 gb and I want to put on Os and a game like bf4.
Will I have more stutters with i5 then i7 ?


Tnx...
 
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With gaming, recording, encoding, and editing, you have plenty to take advantage of an i7's hyperthreading. A SSD will certainly make loading faster but that's really it.
 
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i5 + ssd sounds like the better option, but you might want to also consider expandability:
If you get i7 + HDD, you can always add an SSD later without much hassle.
If you get the i5, you could still upgrade to i7 later, but you'll end up with a spare CPU.
 
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Gallarian

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If its primarily for gaming, with a secondary interest in recording footage, then i5-SSD-HD combo is the best choice.

In games, an i7 processor will only give slight FPS increases. However, an SSD will dramatically decrease loading times which on some games like BF4 having ridiculously long loading screens on an average HDD, will be so much more welcome that 1 or 2 fps.

As for stutters, you should not see that problem with either CPU choice. Stuttering usually stems from Graphics issues and can usually be fixed by using different advanced buffering techniques and V-Sync.
 
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You won't have stutters with either but if you pick i7 it'll help you a lil more in rendering not in games you won't see any bottlenecks at all games have to be acu to run like shit other than that it'll be good :)
 
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The 970 has no VRAM issues. It had incorrect specs when it launched, but all have been corrected so now you get what you paid for. It is still the best GPU on the market for the price.
 
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