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I7 950 vs I5 2500K
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I have...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/14
For a gamer the 2500K would be better, for a cruncher/productivity the question is murkier and close to a wash (except single-threaded perf is better by a lot still), though a 2600K would be better by a nice margin. The single-threaded performance of the Sandy Bridge cpu's is significantly better than the previous i7 series, and they do OC higher.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/14
For a gamer the 2500K would be better, for a cruncher/productivity the question is murkier and close to a wash (except single-threaded perf is better by a lot still), though a 2600K would be better by a nice margin. The single-threaded performance of the Sandy Bridge cpu's is significantly better than the previous i7 series, and they do OC higher.
Anand ...stock looks good....oc I'm sure much better
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=288
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=288
normally I would say it all comes down to price since both will give similar performance unless you do really have number crunching or game at crazy low res but from what I can see sandy bridge is really the more cost efficent solution and the better perfromer.