Steve,
The interesting thing with i5-750 is overclockable. My i5-750 is
able to run at 3.6GHz daily use, and the i7-920 3.3GHz daily. Of
course all need HSF upgrade to Xigmatek Red-Scorpion.
I haven't tried Core-two-Duo Quad-core previously, so dunno the
increment with the new one. My older one is E6600 (default speed 2.4GHz)
At 12:44 AM 2/20/2010, you wrote:
Not that I'm ready to pull the trigger on a new upgrade, but I was
wondering what kind of performance increase I could expect from an
upgrade. Currently my fastest system is an E8500 (the other is an
E6850) and I was looking at bang for the buck. Here's the confusion,
in comparing the i5-750 and i7-920 (roughly my price range), the
benchmarks are all over the place with one not definitively better
than the other. The big issue, of course, is that the i7-920 is about
$100 more. So is there any reason (for a gamer) to go with the i7-920
over the i5-750?
Thanks....Steve
