Seeking advice on R11K self-built PC

If your budget allow you for i7 2600k rather go for that :) I wanted the i5 2500k.. but i felt i would feel dissipointed at a later stage why i did not buy the i7 rather.

Just google i7 2600k or i5 2500k for gaming then you will see what i mean.
 
Shirou said:
Just google i7 2600k or i5 2500k for gaming then you will see what i mean.
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So you mean (at resolution 1920x1080 and up) they perform EXACTLY the same in games and hence you wasted around R1000?
 
I thought the main benefit of the i7 is hyper threading (i.e. 8 virtual cores) which is beyond the core capability of any game I know...
 
Shirou said:
True.. but if you only play games then go for the i5 ofc.
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The only other thing I can think of that I'd use the i7 for is hectic Photohshop stuff, but the i5 will suffice for that too I'm pretty sure.
 
rinkjames said:
The only other thing I can think of that I'd use the i7 for is hectic Photohshop stuff, but the i5 will suffice for that too I'm pretty sure.
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Yes it will be more than enough, I just got my i7 2600k few weeks ago.. and reason i got that rather than the i5 2500k is that sometimes i will use Visual Studio and compile things.. and with this i7 2600k it's shiz fast :)
 
Shirou said:
Yes it will be more than enough, I just got my i7 2600k few weeks ago.. and reason i got that rather than the i5 2500k is that sometimes i will use Visual Studio and compile things.. and with this i7 2600k it's shiz fast :)
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Oh yeah, I'm sure the i7 is great for that. I tried to figure out how to compile stuff once, I gave up. lol
 
Archer said:
The cards are custom designed, with better/more circuitry for this exact purpose - to sustain a 24/7 OC
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I highly doubt they improved the circuitry. As I've said, I've had bad experiences with overclocked cards and I did some investigating after this thread started. Seems the same is true for other people, specifically reviewers. Perhaps that has changed over the years but I'm not going back to overclocked cards. That said I don't like overclocking at all. I don't see the point. Most of you here disagree with me so naturally our view points differ.

That said, I didn't even look at the card, if indeed it comes with a better cooler, then it may be worth the extra R500, depending on the cooler.

Shirou said:
Yes it will be more than enough, I just got my i7 2600k few weeks ago.. and reason i got that rather than the i5 2500k is that sometimes i will use Visual Studio and compile things.. and with this i7 2600k it's shiz fast :)
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I'm a developer by trade. Compile times are heavily IO bound, not CPU bound. A 2100T could outperform your 2600K CPU provided it has an SSD.

Even a 2500K is overkill for gaming, but it is well priced (I myself have one). 2600K for R1000 more, no way.
 
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Gnome said:
I highly doubt they improved the circuitry.
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Its a fact... not all OC'd cards sure, but most of them have greatly improved circuitry/components. I'll go find some pics...

For example
MSI GTX570 has 6+1 power phase delivery
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Reference GTX570 has 4+1 power phase delivery (the empty slots are what a GTX580 would have used)
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So basically, the Twin Frozr card has the full external circuitry of a GTX580
 
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Gnome said:
I highly doubt they improved the circuitry. As I've said, I've had bad experiences with overclocked cards and I did some investigating after this thread started. Seems the same is true for other people, specifically reviewers. Perhaps that has changed over the years but I'm not going back to overclocked cards. That said I don't like overclocking at all. I don't see the point. Most of you here disagree with me so naturally our view points differ.

That said, I didn't even look at the card, if indeed it comes with a better cooler, then it may be worth the extra R500, depending on the cooler.
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Ok, here's a question. I have two HDDs in my old PC but they are at least a few years old and might be slow. Would it be worth sticking with those potentially slow HDDs (longer loading times?) and then getting the cheapest gtx580 I can find, or should I stick with getting a new fast HDD and perhaps a slightly over clocked gtx 570? Tough questions...

Sorry, but I think my heart's set on Nvidia gtx 500 series now...
 
Hard-drive speed hasn't increased much in the last few years, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. But what do you mean by "old". Which drives?

I would still get the cheapest GTX580 money can buy rather than a tricked out GTX570
 
Gnome said:
Hard-drive speed hasn't increased much in the last few years, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. But what do you mean by "old". Which drives?

I would still get the cheapest GTX580 money can buy rather than a tricked out GTX570
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Tricked out - lol that's actually an interesting way of putting it.

Unfortunately, I don't have the drives with me at the moment. I just remember when I got them. The first one about 7-8 years ago, the other prob 5-6 years ago. Assuming they are quite slow (bad/worst case scenario), would my system benefit more from a gtx 580 over a 570, or more from a faster HDD?
 
For gaming a HDD makes zero difference to FPS. For load times, it makes a difference. Decide which one is more important to you
 
Archer said:
For gaming a HDD makes zero difference to FPS. For load times, it makes a difference. Decide which one is more important to you
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But then surely the game will lag cause it's constantly loading (slowly) from the old HDD? Or would I merely have to wait for the game to start up altogether and then just rely on CPU, GPU, RAM etc.?
 
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