>getting an i7 to play video games But an i5 gives you the

>>58210084

>playing video games

manchildren go back to >>>/v/

says the poor fellow

>>58210084
there are no quad core i5 mobile CPUs
I need to get i7 if I want it

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>>58210105
sure m8, keep on telling lies

>>58210186
Now find me an equal quad core i5 I can mount in my T430, faget

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>>58210084
>But an i5 gives you the same performance.
Certainly not in every situation

When gaming at higher resolutions, 1440p or 4k, the difference might be smaller due to the gpu being the bottleneck, but on 1080p there can be a big difference in cpu heavy titles

>>58210084
i5 doesn't give the same performance, i7 is faster, even if it's marginal.

Also if you do any kind of video editing, it will make a huge difference.

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>>58210281
>T430
Maybe its time to upgrade platform m8.
Or are you too poor?

>>58210084
>But an i5 gives you the same performance.
Literally wrong though mate.

>>58210449
Why would I?
It does everything I need.

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>>58210449
>upgrade your platform so you can have worse i5 instead of i7 because i7 is a waste of money for gayming
Makes perfect sense, senpai!
Thanks /g/!

I'm a nigga on an old i7 920 thats still kicking.

Looking into Zen because IPC is low.

I'm also planning on switching to Linux and using PCIE passthrough for games.

AMD is usually pretty good about not locking stuff like overclocking and virtualization features behind product tiers right?

My current motherboard has fucked up IOMMU support.

>>58210084
>Unless you benefit from the hyperthreading in a professional environment
You don't have to be a professional to benefit from it
>virtualization
>image/audio/video conversion
>3D rendering
>compression/decompression
and in general every task that can be parallelized benefits from hyperthreading/more cores

Seriously, it's almost 2017 and you're still sticking to quad-core

>>58210669
HT
>increases power consumption
>increases generated heat during normal work
>causes problems and performance fuckup for older programs
And unless you use your machine as a server you should disable it

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>>58210084
Why not? When the SATA controler on my mobo shit the bed I figured fuck it and got a 6950, then figured fuck it again and bought a 1080 just for the hell of it. I mean I play minecraft and TF2 mostly.

Its only money, who cares.

>>58210699
Literally never had any of these issues

>>increases power consumption
Probably. Still lower TDP than AMD CPUs and higher efficiency, so fine by me

>>increases generated heat during normal work
If you're having heat issues then just disable the turbo mode that OCs your CPU under high load

>>causes problems and performance fuckup for older programs
Multicore CPUs cause fuckups in old programs in general, it's not just an issue exclusive to HT. The solution is simple, set process affinity to 1. Wow, that was hard.

Im still using an i5 2500k which seems to work just fine for 1080p gaming