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Originally Posted by BrianG

And don't feel bad, the HTPC if going to be faster than my main rig as well. But since it will be used for so many things, I felt the power is necessary. About the overclocking: I may or may not. At least I got the hardware so I can if I want. If I do, it won't be extreme - maybe something like a 5% O/C just for a little extra power.

Not in all cases!
In gaming, the i5-2500k is the clear winner over the 2700k.
But encoding, maybe not.

[BrianG]

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.