I was planning to upgrade to a ryzen 5 1500x, but i realized it would be cheaper to buy a i7-4790 due to it having the same cpu socket as my current mobo. I saw that the i7 doesnt have any cores, but the ryzen does. Is it worth making a future investment with cores, or does it not make that much of a difference? any advice is wanted
Are CPU Cores Worth it?
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HardwareExtreme
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The Core i7 has 4 cores, 8 threads (which is called hyperthreading, the extra threads sorta act like cores, but not exactly) and so does the Ryzen 5. The Ryzen 5 1500x is a better idea if you can afford it because it supports DDR4 and newer technologies like usb 3.1 and you can likely upgrade it in the future. Getting more cores is a good idea if you do heavy photo editing or rendering or CAD, and most people can get by on a quad for most tasks.
However, if you have the motherboard and parts to support it, and it would be cheaper, you might as well go with the i7 because although there is a difference in performance; the Ryzen is faster, but maybe not enough to justify doing a completely new build.
What are your specs right now?
However, if you have the motherboard and parts to support it, and it would be cheaper, you might as well go with the i7 because although there is a difference in performance; the Ryzen is faster, but maybe not enough to justify doing a completely new build.
What are your specs right now?
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The upgrade you are proposing only makes sense if you plan on taking advantage of the extra threads that the i7 has. What are you mainly doing with the PC? If it's mostly gaming, you won't see a huge improvement moving from an i5 to an i7 of the same generation, although newer games are able to take advantage of a higher number of threads.
Why do you want to upgrade? Are you unhappy with the current performance of your PC?
Why do you want to upgrade? Are you unhappy with the current performance of your PC?
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Ubisoft are well known for making poorly coded games that run like crap even on good hardware. Remember the absolute joke that was assassins creed unity? http://cdn3-i.hitc-s.com/215/qa1y6zvrsxs3veen1hku_99971.jpg
That's what I mean by 'ubisoft good'. It's not your specs, it's their shoddy game
You should be able to run wildlands with an i5 no problem, but because ubisoft made it you need an i7
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Wildland's is horribly optimised, the 4790k won't make that much of a difference, it still suffered massive frame drops on my rig.
Plus threads are nothing like cores as mentioned earlier on in the question. Cores are what do the processing, Threads are the lanes that carry the data to and from the Cores.
This would be the case if you did not have the 1060, and were running only from the built-in graphics system that comes with the i5. It's irrelevant for you because you are using the 1060 video card. The 1060 can have 3GB or 6GB. If you have the 3GB version, in some games, this can be a limiting factor.
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