i5 vs i7

[charles197]

can get the i5-6500 for 189 or the i7-6700 for 228 would the i7 be worth it or the i5 i dont o/c

 

[CTurbo]

$228 is a great price for a 6700. Go with that.

 

[photonboy]

That i7 is faster in two ways:

1) almost 12% faster under load (Turbo), and

2) has over 30% more processing available with hyperthreading (mostly future proofing for gaming when games are better threaded but a few games now can benefit)

(hyperthreading is when another thread of code runs during the "wait" times that the same CPU core isn't doing anything as it's waiting for new data.)

So...
best case scenario you might have 50% more processing available on that i7 vs that i5. So again, it's not something you'd notice much now but it will extend the life of the computer (though HANDBRAKE or other well threaded applications will run faster now)

 

[charles197]

thanks , I dont use handbrake . My old rig is amd 6300 im upgrading to 1151 . I have mis b150 mortar arctic ,m2 ssd 270gb 8 g 2400 m .

 

[Ecky]

Sounds like a solid system.

 

[InvalidError]

(hyperthreading is when another thread of code runs during the "wait" times that the same CPU core isn't doing anything as it's waiting for new data.)

Unless you are running code that has been explicitly tuned for HT, HT does not wait for "wait times", it simply provides an alternate instruction pool with few/no dependencies for the scheduler to keep issue ports busy with. If both threads have a similar amount of instructions eligible for execution, processing resources get split roughly 50-50 between the two. The two threads end up running at ~65% of the speed they would run at on a dedicated core but since the core is running both concurrently, the core's total throughput is ~130% of what it would be without HT.

 

[theonerm2]

I saw that Core i7 6700 on ebay for that price did you buy it? Somebody did. It's a really good deal. I wouldn't even think about a Core i5 with an i7 priced that low. It's definitely worth it.

 

[charles197]

thanks to you all i will get the i7