Good for general use and gaming?

[dontsh00tmesanta]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8584/...nd-e5-2650-v3-review-haswell-ep-with-10-cores

 

[Araxie]

oh gawd no.. hell nope.. save all that money and pick a 5930K if you will be doing rendering stuff and visual work.. or save even more and go with a 4790K for "general usage and heavy gaming".. all of those cores and threads at ~2.6ghz-3.0ghz will do nothing good for gaming...

 

[dontsh00tmesanta]

Encoding transcoding movies etc plus some gaming

 

[Liger88]

Depends on whats more important to you.

 

[Trimlock]

Encoding transcoding movies etc plus some gaming

Please don't buy this if all you are doing is encoding/transcoding.

 

[atp1916]

Encoding transcoding movies etc plus some gaming

4790K has your name written all over it.

 

[gungravevn]

I7 4790k is the way to go if you are mostly gaming. 5930k or 4930k if you are going to be using it for heavy rendering and visual works.