Quote Originally Posted by Harner View Post
Retarded pills? Yes. However, if you're building a computer called a gaming rig, why settle for a mid-level CPU? MPR is looking at a high end box to put all this shit in, and only going middle of the road on a CPU.

Fuck overclocking.

I have somewhat of a gaming rig as well, and only really skimped on the video card (which I now regret). I like to host VM's, have 100 apps open, and run Skyrim on high settings at the same time. My i7 doesn't give a shit, and it's only the 920. Both are excellent processors, and if you're just gaming, the i5 will be fine. The $100 difference probably cannot be justified with gaming.

TL;DR- I don't really give a fuck.
The 2500k is better at almost everything over the 920 and overclocking it is not only an easy on it, it makes it very future proof(considering it doesn't even need an overclock atm). While being a mid range CPU on the list of Intel processors, it's revered as one of the best for gaming(beats out everything AMD has). The only reason to get anything more expensive with Hyper-Threading is if you are interested in heavy media production.