Thread: Building a PC

Originally Posted by Harner

You're building a gaming rig and not going with an i7? I'd also recommend going to a 10000rpm drive and 12GB RAM.

If you save a couple dollars going with a cheaper but similar quality case, you may be able to squeeze the extra horsepower in.

Sorry Harner, you're usually on the ball with these things, but have you taken some retarded pills or something?
You don't need an i7 for gaming at all, its pointless. Unless you're doing graphics rendering or CAD or something, you don't need an i7.

The only benefits over an i5 that an i7 has is that it has multi-threading and some extra cache. Games don't even use multi-threading properly at the moment, and you can overclock the i5 to much higher speeds than i7, even if you overclocked the i7.

You may say well, what about those that don't want to overclocking?
I say, its easy as fuck now. Motherboard tech make it very easy now, gui bios etc. Some places even overclock it for you.

tl;dr : don't get i7 if its just for gaming, get an i5 2500k and overclock the shit out of it

@MPR: I will take a proper look sometime at the weekend (lol adjusting to new job), unless I get some free time before then. But I am more than willing to make a decent build with awesome prices for you if you want. (lol if i can get better prices than you...replied before reading whole thread...*hangs head in shame*)

@Looshius: You get the one I picked? How you like it?