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I5 versus 17 proccesor

inovator
Consultant
If you have a 1070 graphics card. Would an i7 processor give you a better experience than an i5 processor. And if so why? I appreciate any answer. Thanks
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EliteSPA
Superstar
For gaming is enough, maybe 5-10 fps less in games like gta V and The Witcher 3 (lot of phisics and AI on such games) but for a 1070 a i5 is fine. Dont buy kaby lake cpu. 
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zboson
Superstar
What is wrong with Kaby Lake? It's essentially Skylake with a higher base clock and some bug fixes.

Percy1983
Superstar

zboson said:

What is wrong with Kaby Lake? It's essentially Skylake with a higher base clock and some bug fixes.


I wouldn't say there is anything wrong with kaby lake, just don't upgrade from skylake.

I would wait for zen before making a decision on cpus.
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zboson
Superstar
@Percy1983

Does the OP have skylake already? I did not read the OP saying what kind of CPU he/she has already.

Percy1983
Superstar
Nope not sure what they have or what they are thinking of so my last comment is general advice.
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Ernimus_Prime
Heroic Explorer

I bought an i5 6600K.  O/C to 4.6 ghz.  Works great with games.  Really not a lot of games takes advantage of the i7 6700K's multi threading.  If you did CAD and Video editing and such.  Then You would want a i7 CPU. 

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zboson
Superstar
The 90 USD Kaby Lake G4600 Pentium processor may actually work out okay. It's dual core with hyper-threading. I think it's the first Pentium processor with hyper-threading. The low budget Pentium and Celeron processors don't support AVX or better but they do support SSE 4.2.  But in reality AMD processors don't really have AVX either. They have the instructions but in most cases it's emulated as SSE twice.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-pentium-g4600

Anonymous
Not applicable
I have to overclock my i5 processor to get better tracking at the moment.