It has been about five years since I built my current PC and I made a ton of mistakes with that build.
Current specs:
i7 960 OC'd to 3.7Ghz
1x GTX 580 1.5GB VRAM
ASUS RAMPAGE something or other
7200RPM HDD
750w Corsair HX modular PSU
Cheap-o CoolerMaster case with FP-IO that only halfway works
etc.
Biggest mistake being the 1.5GB vram. This time I did much more research before putting together...
This build is meant for 1080p gaming; ideally it will last for the next five or six years. I plan to overclock the CPU. I might do SLI in the future. The 970 3.5GB/224bit memory issues do not bother me. As is, the build is right on budget, $1100.
My main question is about the CPU. Is it worth spending $80 more and going with an i7 over an i5? The big difference between the two is Hyperthreading. Game devs, thus far, haven't been able to adopt semaphores into their calculations, though, so Hyperthreading isn't very useful in games. At the same time, with both consoles running four cores, I can imagine multi-core physics becoming a bigger target in the next few years.
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