Upgrade from i3 to i5?

[Motawa]

Hey guys.

So far dolphin runs pretty good. accept of games like donkey kong country returns(about 80% speed) and rayman origins crashes down to 90% sometimes. Mario Galaxy runs fine btw.

Over all im pleased with my overall system performance(dolphin could run a bit better)

this is my system:

asus mainboard with h61 chip(no OC)
hd 6970@1ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
i3 2120@3,5ghz

i know that the only OC-able i5 is the "k" version. But my mainboard doesnt support OC and i dont really want to buy a new one(just got my h61 last week)

so i could buy a regular i5 without "k" and OC.

But the question is. Is it worth it? will i get better speed on donkey kong country returns?

[AnyOldName3]

Well I wouldn't have bought an i3 in the first place, and if i was buying a new processor I would make the jump to i7, because unless you sell the i3 you won't get a boost that is worth the spend.

[NaturalViolence]

Just wait until haswell comes out in 1.5 years.

[s0nicxo]

Look, even a i7 can't run all Dolphin Games at full speed, you should buy new ones, like Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge.


Regards.

[Zee530]

And here i always thought i7 was a sandy bridge

[Motawa]

the 2120 is sandy bridge...

[Duke Nukem]

Why i5 and not i7? Price doesn't differ that much from a i5 2500K to a i7 2600K or i7 2700K
Plus you'll get 2 more MB of L3 cache with the i7 which has 8MB L3 cache instead of the 6MB L3 cache the i5 2500K have.

[mman2067]

Its way better to upgrade to i7 you can run your games at full speed

[Duke Nukem]

Yeah with an i7 it's good as it gets these days literally speaking.

If I were to build today, this day I would personally have used the i7 3820 3.6GHz LGA 2011 Quad Core CPU with 10MB of L3 cache
It ain't that expensive either.

Man what a kick ass build it could have been.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:Why i5 and not i7? Price doesn't differ that much from a i5 2500K to a i7 2600K or i7 2700K

$100 more (50% more price) for no improvement in performance, that's why.