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Originally Posted by Mazrim
I've never been big on i7 over i5 personally. I don't feel like enough games take advantage of the extra cores anyways. I suppose if you're someone who min/maxes your build (maxes out overclock voltage on K processors, disables E cores, maybe more?) then of course you go as high as you can, but the clock speeds on the i5 are the real important part IMO.
That being said, from all the listening to Digital Foundry's weekly show I've done recently it sounds like many games on ultra settings at high resolution and framerate tend to be CPU limited? So perhaps it's not a bad idea to put extra money there.
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Its very dependent on the game. If that specific game has a lot of CPU calculations then yet but honestly most games are written for cross-platform and thus optimized for consoles that would be slower or equivalent to the core count on an i5 to begin with.
Maybe it would help to know the intended use cases are for the new PC? Video editing? Gaming? (which specifically?)