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Originally Posted by rawfuls
Not in all cases!
In gaming, the i5-2500k is the clear winner over the 2700k.
But encoding, maybe not.  |
Yeah, that's why my gaming rig uses the i5-2500k. Most games don't even use all 4 cores fully, so anything more is overkill. I was reading about someone who got one of the extreme 6 core (12 with HT) i7's to play Minecraft! My son plays that game on a Core 2 quad CPU and it barely hits the CPU. Talk about a waste of over $1000 for a CPU!
But, in video encoding, even those logical hyperthreading "cores" make a substantial difference, hence the choice.