i5 3550k or i7 3770k

wbt50

wbt50

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Almost done on choosing parts for my first ever build but I'm not quite sure which CPU to go for.

Is it worth spending the extra £100 on i7 3770k or just go with the i5 ?
Is there a real difference in the performance ?

I will mainly be using my PC to surf the web, Work (Microsoft Office), Watch films/music, basic programming stuff and some gaming (Nothing extreme)

Is it worth spending the extra £100 ?

Thanks for any help :)
 
jonnyp11 said:
not for that, only reason for an i7 is for extreme encoding, editing, and 3d designing.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/701?vs=551

and for the money a FX6300 might be worth looking at, doesn't touch the i5's but for the money they are good and overclock very well
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That is all true, but I would recommend the i5. After some research for my White Dragon project, I decided to go for the i5. It's an excellent overclocker, in fact, after overclocking it to 4.5 GHz it beats the stock, and even mildly overclocked i7, hands down. Sure, if you would do some heavy HD editing, or 3D rendering, you would see a difference for those extra 4 virtual cores, but for what you need, overclocked i5 (even slightly) will be your best choice. There is a reason why most pc magazines have it as their favorite CPU.

See benchmark results here: http://www.computerforum.com/215772-black-hole-v3-benchmark.html
 
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mr.doom said:
That is all true, but I would recommend the i5. After some research for my White Dragon project, I decided to go for the i5. It's an excellent overclocker, in fact, after overclocking it to 4.5 GHz it beats the stock, and even mildly overclocked i7, hands down. Sure, if you would do some heavy HD editing, or 3D rendering, you would see a difference for those extra 4 virtual cores, but for what you need, overclocked i5 (even slightly) will be your best choice. There is a reason why most pc magazines have it as their favorite CPU.

See benchmark results here: http://www.computerforum.com/215772-black-hole-v3-benchmark.html
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yeah, hyperthrading only adds around 30% performance and that's only in things that can take advantage of that many cores, so if you can overclock an i5 to 4.6 or so you should get very similar performance in those things along with better performance in everything else and you would save like 50 bucks over the i7
 
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