money is a concern.
I'm replacing my e2180 with a haswell. I chose haswell because of the lower power usage than other options (if I keep this system as long as the last one the energy savings over that time will amount to something)
at this point I play mostly starcraft 2, shogun 2 total war, and supcom (well I play more but those are the most taxing)
I have a microcenter nearby. so I could grab an entry level i3-4130 for 110bucks (5 dollar bridge toll )
I could probably stick with that for a while and upgrade to a quad core when it looked more like the games needed it. in the benchmarks I have seen It looks like the clock speed advantage of the i3's is more of an asset than having two more REAL cores.
currently to grab an i5, the lowest they have is a 4570 total cost a hair under 175bucks... 65 bucks extra is a lot... but I'm having issues finding any benchmarks that specifically target dual core 4 thread vs 4 core 4 thread. Help here would be appreciated. From what I have seen, the gain in performance isn't worth it.
buy the i3 and pickup a quad in a couple years when its cheaper and probably in an obsolete socket or bite the bullet and get the i5 now?
I don't know how low intel tends to go before just discontinuing processors but I know I could sell my i3 on ebay when it was time to trade up.
other specs:
motherboard is an asrock pro4
8gb 2133mhz ram
Radeon 7790 1gb
currently running the e2180 and 3gb of ram.... which appears to be the bottleneck for pretty much everything.
furthermore, I grabbed an m500 SSD but aside from windows loading in half the time, I don't really notice load times of games being changed much, maybe down 20%...
HD Tune shows the first 20% of the ssd at 150mbps transfer rate, After that, I am guessing it gets to the free space on the drive and pops up to about 215 and sits there until the end of the drive. Reports burst rate at 150 too... wondering if my old sata controller is a bottleneck... trying iometer now.
I'm replacing my e2180 with a haswell. I chose haswell because of the lower power usage than other options (if I keep this system as long as the last one the energy savings over that time will amount to something)
at this point I play mostly starcraft 2, shogun 2 total war, and supcom (well I play more but those are the most taxing)
I have a microcenter nearby. so I could grab an entry level i3-4130 for 110bucks (5 dollar bridge toll )
I could probably stick with that for a while and upgrade to a quad core when it looked more like the games needed it. in the benchmarks I have seen It looks like the clock speed advantage of the i3's is more of an asset than having two more REAL cores.
currently to grab an i5, the lowest they have is a 4570 total cost a hair under 175bucks... 65 bucks extra is a lot... but I'm having issues finding any benchmarks that specifically target dual core 4 thread vs 4 core 4 thread. Help here would be appreciated. From what I have seen, the gain in performance isn't worth it.
buy the i3 and pickup a quad in a couple years when its cheaper and probably in an obsolete socket or bite the bullet and get the i5 now?
I don't know how low intel tends to go before just discontinuing processors but I know I could sell my i3 on ebay when it was time to trade up.
other specs:
motherboard is an asrock pro4
8gb 2133mhz ram
Radeon 7790 1gb
currently running the e2180 and 3gb of ram.... which appears to be the bottleneck for pretty much everything.
furthermore, I grabbed an m500 SSD but aside from windows loading in half the time, I don't really notice load times of games being changed much, maybe down 20%...
HD Tune shows the first 20% of the ssd at 150mbps transfer rate, After that, I am guessing it gets to the free space on the drive and pops up to about 215 and sits there until the end of the drive. Reports burst rate at 150 too... wondering if my old sata controller is a bottleneck... trying iometer now.