01-08-2016, 05:38 AM
(01-07-2016, 07:18 PM)gstanford Wrote: Do your own research. I'm not your assistant to be bossed around!
As I said mainstream i7's can be had cheaper than Phenom II quad cores sold for. Why would you settle for less?! I never mentioned core count or the nature of the cores. I will note however that hyper-threading has come a long way since Nehalem and Sandy Bridge and I'd rather have it than not.
No, the reason I like i7 is the clock speed. 4.0 ghz out of the box, 4.4 ghz solid simply by putting an aftermarket heatsink on and using the all core turbo tweak in the bios. No overclock needed.
Speaking of overclocking, 2600K was pretty legendary too, just pop an aftermarket heatsink on and get an entire extra ghz of speed simply by changing the multiplier from 34 to 44, that's it nothing else to change. The only way it could have been easier is to have a "press me for 1 ghz extra speed" button on the motherboard.
I have a 4790K as well, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference in that and the 4690 I have in the other desktop.