I5 750 or i7 920 or 930?? is it worth an extra $89 for the i7?

[k1ngkev1n1]

Going to be using it for gaming, just curious if it was worth the extra $90 bucks to jump up to the i7? thanks for your input.

 

[Lmeow]

No, the only main advantage the Core i7 900 has is the Hyper-Threading, triple channel memory and dual PCI-e 16x lanes, none really help gaming apart from not bottlenecking CrossFireX/SLI setups. Clock for clock they perform similarly, with the i7 860 though it has a much higher Turbo Boost than either the i5 750 or i7 930, which means it will beat the two processors in games which do not use many cores.

 

[k1ngkev1n1]

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