Intel i5 & i7

Double Helix

Double Helix

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I sold my HP6000 and I'm trying to buy a new laptop, I've been reading allot on the web about the i5 and i7 but not 100% sure, there both fast but any thoughts ?
 
I prefer the i5-750 over the i7-9x0 any day but it is a long story. It depends what you want to do with it. If you want games and 1 card the i5-750 all day every day, 2 cards i7-9x0 all day every day.

I just saw laptop, I can't help you there.
 
You'll want an i7. It's MUCH faster than the i5 at that sort of thing. Asus usually has the best deals on them.

If you can spare the extra over that HP, this thing is an absolute monster for the price:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+...lack/9741729.p?id=1218165344675&skuId=9741729
Best Buy only, sadly, but it's still awesome.

It's very difficult to find a laptop that's faster than that, much less under $2000. The CPU and the GPU are both the very fastest models currently available in consumer-grade laptops. It will play any game you want, and will blow through editing software like it's nothing. The i7 is already a monster at encoding/rendering, but if you enable the ATI Stream plug-ins in your editing software(all Adobe products have it), that GPU will chew through anything you throw at it with ease. The GPGPU-only features in Photoshop CS4 are pretty cool, too.
 
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Drenlin said:
You'll want an i7. It's MUCH faster than the i5 at that sort of thing. Asus usually has the best deals on them.

If you can spare the extra over that HP, this thing is an absolute monster for the price:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+...lack/9741729.p?id=1218165344675&skuId=9741729
Best Buy only, sadly, but it's still awesome.

It's very difficult to find a laptop that's faster than that, much less under $2000. The CPU and the GPU are both the very fastest models currently available in consumer-grade laptops. It will play any game you want, and will blow through editing software like it's nothing. The i7 is already a monster at encoding/rendering, but if you enable the ATI Stream plug-ins in your editing software(all Adobe products have it), that GPU will chew through anything you throw at it with ease. The GPGPU-only features in Photoshop CS4 are pretty cool, too.
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Thanks for the link, the only reviews ive read about i7 is that it runs hot, fan kicks in allot, batt life sucks etc, but i7 with Turbo featere is nice.
 
Double Helix said:
Thanks for the link, the only reviews ive read about i7 is that it runs hot, fan kicks in allot, batt life sucks etc, but i7 with Turbo featere is nice.
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Oh there's no question that it's power hungry, haha. It gets hot because of Turbo...the whole concept behind it is that if the processor is cool enough, then it can handle more power...so it overclocks itself until it heats up, then backs off a bit. It will also OC when there's unused cores(and thus unused heat capacity) From a thermal standpoint, the i7 is actually really well designed. (It will also underclock itself to conserve power...this is an older feature called SpeedStep)

I think the key to this is using Windows 7's power options. You have fairly thorough control over the system's power usage, which helps to keep it cool.
 
Drenlin said:
Oh there's no question that it's power hungry, haha. It gets hot because of Turbo...the whole concept behind it is that if the processor is cool enough, then it can handle more power...so it overclocks itself until it heats up, then backs off a bit. It will also OC when there's unused cores(and thus unused heat capacity) From a thermal standpoint, the i7 is actually really well designed. (It will also underclock itself to conserve power...this is an older feature called SpeedStep)

I think the key to this is using Windows 7's power options. You have fairly thorough control over the system's power usage, which helps to keep it cool.
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now that makes sense...allot of people were making it sound like it does the fan kick in every 24 hrs of operation use.

i7 seems to be good but if you look at the forums it seems that the i5 is bang for the buck, do you guys think there is a big difference in what I'm doing that will benefit from 7 to 5 ?
 
The i7 has eight threads, compared to the i5's four. That will give it a big advantage. More threads in editing software is always a good thing. Now that's not to say that you couldn't do this kind of thing with an i5, because you can...the i7 just does it better.
 
i7 has 8 and i5 has 4 ?...why the hell is Intel making things harder not sure why they just don't call out the cores like they did before..CORE 2 = 2 core..ahh simple

But I'm sold on i7..and ill get the i7 for the PC, but since the 775 chip set i have doesn't work that would mean a new board...and...ram.. :)
 
Double Helix said:
i7 has 8 and i5 has 4 ?...why the hell is Intel making things harder not sure why they just don't call out the cores like they did before..CORE 2 = 2 core..ahh simple

But I'm sold on i7..and ill get the i7 for the PC, but since the 775 chip set i have doesn't work that would mean a new board...and...ram.. :)
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the i5-750 has hyperthreading so u can get 8 cores. drenlin is wrong on that one. I would go for that dell laptop. EPIC!!!!!
 
jarlmaster47 said:
the i5-750 has hyperthreading so u can get 8 cores. drenlin is wrong on that one. I would go for that dell laptop. EPIC!!!!!
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No, it does not.

Also, hyper-threading does not equal 8 cores, it equals 2 threads using the same pipeline on one core.

Double Helix said:
i7 has 8 and i5 has 4 ?...why the hell is Intel making things harder not sure why they just don't call out the cores like they did before..CORE 2 = 2 core..ahh simple

But I'm sold on i7..and ill get the i7 for the PC, but since the 775 chip set i have doesn't work that would mean a new board...and...ram.. :)
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Actually, there are Core 2 Solo(1 core), Core 2 Duo(2), and Core 2 Quad(4) models. :P Core 2 is the name of the architecture...like Pentium 2. The Core Solo and Core Duo models came before them.

You'll be happy with the i7...it's an absolute monster for multimedia use.
 
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jarlmaster47 said:
yes it does. look on newegg.
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Intel, Newegg, and common knowledge all say that it doesn't.

Also, Asus > Dell.

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jarlmaster47 said:
yes it does. look on newegg.
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your completely wrong. i have the i5 750, had it for quite a while, it has four cores, and each core runs one thread.

its wrong that the extra threads make the i7's a completely different league, too. fact is, with the extra four threads, the performance increase is only about 20-25% total. its definitely not twice as fast, as some would have you believe.
 
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