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Offline takemehomegrandma

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Quote from: persia;764933
an i3 with a reasonable amount of ram (say 16 to 24 GB) and a GB or two graphics memory on a good card will perform better than an i5 starved on 4 or 8 GB of RAM and a cheap 512 Mb graphics card.


16 to 24 GB of RAM, "reasonable", OMG!? And I thought I was stretching it when I put in 8GB instead of my originally planned 4GB in my latest Core i7 system! :lol:

If you are running Windows 7 like I do (I have actively been avoiding Win 8 this far), then I'd say that 4GB is really enough for most ("regular") people who will likely be utilizing some 50%-70% of this tops in their general usage patterns. Instead, I would say that a good way to *really* increase the general user experience with Windows, is to abandon HDD's for Windows and applications partitions (maybe have a big HDD (or a couble, perhaps RAID mirrored) for data and bulk storage), and go for a *fast* SSD instead.

I'd boldly claim that for most people in their line of general office work (as well as many peoples general computer usage patterns at home, *gamers excluded* of course), a desktop Win7 system based on a Haswell Core i3 with h87 chipset, a SSD like Samsung 840 pro, 4GB of fast RAM, and *NO* GFX card will be just fine! And the price tag for such a system will be very attractive, which will make sense for people/corporations in this ("regular"/office/"low-end") customer segment who doesn't like paying premium money for premium system resources they will likely never use anyway...

My experience says that gamer's usually aims for fast (and/or OC'd) Core i5/z87 systems which makes sense from a money/performance point of view, and focus their money spending on top notch GFX cards instead.

Core i7 mostly makes sense for workstation usage IMHO.

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No self respecting hardcore gamer would use an i5 machine :)


I see your point! ;)

Well, I suppose it all comes down to your budget, and how to get most bang for the buck out of your gaming rig. Many gamer's focus their spending's towards graphic card(s) instead of over-the-top CPU power, and settle with a more or less overclocked Core i5, which is quite economic and still very powerful for gaming purposes. Many games of today will still leave *quite a few* of the available cores in the i7 unused, which can make a Core i5 with aggressive clocking a preferable option. ;)
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