processor questions

>>55827296
Yes if you can afford the i7, get the i7.
Don't listen to these dickheads who bought something not as good because they just had to use half their budget to replace their already nice case and everything for some reason and feel driven to defend their gimped down CPU purchase.
It makes a big fucking difference in real world performance.

>>55827296
The core clock speed or Ghz don't really impact raw performance. The I3-6100 has 2 cores opposed to the four on the i7, less transistors, and lower cache. Better to get something xeon e5 2670 v3 for $193 on eBay.

>They are engineering samples that's why they're cheap and they have lower clock speeds but it's a 12 core CPU based on the LGA 2011-v3 socket

> and you can take advantage of the x99 platform

>>55827296
most reasonable cpu is i5 6600k, esp if you play games. If you video edit or have highly multithreaded workloads then you want a hyperthreaded cpu like an i7

>>55827357
yeah but single core on xeons is next to unbearable, so rip playing games.

Do you do any rendering or heavy processing loads that can be parallelized?
No? Don't know what the word "parallelized" means? Then you should not get an i7.

Play videogames from the current year? Get an i5.

Use your computer solely for "work," school, and (social) media consumption? Get an i3.

>>55827296
It's over 2 times faster

depends what youre doing to be honest, casual editing and gaming you'd be best off getting a 6600k and oc'ing it,if you're going to be editing a lot then go for i7

>>55827374
Actually in some cases the e5 2670 does better than 5690X. Gaming isn't really affected at all and actually with the case of Crysis 3 it does better than a 6700K or 5960X because it taking advantage of more cores

I've got an i7 2600, what is the best motherboard to go for? I want to replace this shit tier Intel DH61WW and get a new graphics card too (Radon HD 5400). I need my computer for trading, plug 4 screens into it. I'm currently using 2 screens.