i5 4670k VS i7 4770k

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trance4life

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Hello Guys , So i'm planing to upgrade from my 6 years old PC and i have a choise between the i5 4670k and the i7 4770k but the price between them is like 100$ i want to save this money trying to get an MSI 780GTX. :love:

My usage gonna be Games running on Ultra at 1080P , music Production like Ableton FL Studio , CueBase , Kontakt .. ,maybe some editing but not that much.

So is the i5 is great for me or i'll wait till i get the money to but the i7 . Thanks i'm waiting for the help.
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The i5 isn't ever better than the i7, performance wise. Only when taking price into account.

As for the 290, you can manually overclock it to be on 290x niveau, but even non overclocked it's stronger than a 780 gtx. I myself prefer Nvidia, but at this point when being on a budget I don't see spending 130€ more for a nvidia card with essentially the same performance.

DubbleClick

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Huh, I'm mistaken then.

German wiki says: "PhysX bezeichnet eine proprietäre Physik-Engine der Firma Nvidia. PhysX verlagert die Berechnung physikalischer Effekte in Computerspielen und Simulationssoftware auf Grafikkarten der Nvidia GeForce-Serie des Herstellers"

which basically means the calculation of physical effects is put on gpu to save up cpu recources.
 


which is true, thats why Nvidia puts Physx capabilities on their GPUs, but its not necessary or its intended creation. It was created to display various extra physics based effects in games, like rays or light, or clothes that blow in the wind.
 

JoshuaPinto

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Get an EVGA nVidia 780. And get the Core i5. The Core i7 is overkill for gaming.