SB I5 or BF I7 for NON-Gamer

[boeing114]

So I was looking at the i5-2500k or the i7 950. I don't do a lot of games. Is the i7 still worth it? (I would probably upgrade to a 970 or 980 next year)

 

[boeing114]

It's an lga 1366

 

[mdd1963]

Think of it this way: save for a small handful of highly threaded and/or extremely memory bandwidth sensitive applications, both the 2500k and 2600k are already faster (in 98% of assorted benchmarks) than the i7-950, i7-980x, and the 990x.

Unless your profitablilty is riding on the perhaps two applications that Bloomfield/X58 excels at with a 2% lead, there is little reason for considering it over the better performing Sandybridge rigs..