Personally I would stick with a 2600k if it's still in your budget. People seem to underestimate the value of hyper threading and the extra cache. Especially while encoding, and multitasking at the same time.
Personally I would stick with a 2600k if it's still in your budget. People seem to underestimate the value of hyper threading and the extra cache. Especially while encoding, and multitasking at the same time.
Lolwat?
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ce-Spreadsheet
SLI 560 vs 580 is very minimal, ~10-15%, and leaves you VERY little room to upgrade. Xuvial covered why that PSU is awesome. Doesn't Sandy Bridge prefer 1333 mhz RAM, or was that 1600Mhz? *googles*
- http://techreport.com/articles.x/20377Standard Sandy Bridge processors may default to a 1333MHz memory
I don't get why people are telling you to downgrade to an i5. The difference is minimal for gaming, but for modern applications such as video processing, audio processing, or Folding@Home, the i7 2600k takes the cake and there's no reason why you shouldn't take the i5 2500k over it.
cheers for the replies all, ill have a closer look at em over the weekend and see how and where to spend my money.