Originally Posted by Leingod

That's a lot of monnies Jobe. For gaming, get an i5. Barely any games use hyperthreading still. An i5 will outperform an i7 in most cases for gaming simply because of the "simplicity" behind it. unless you're doing AutoCAD or grapic design with tons of rendering, the i7 isn't needed at all. Spend the money saved on a beastly GPU or water cooling solution.