How long until the next upgrade? If you plan to keep that chip for 4
years and the 920 is faster on most things you will be doing (based on
extrapolated data from those charts), then you're only paying $25 / year
for that. Of course, you need to be able to afford it now.
I think bang-for-your-buck calculations are really hard to do nowadays.
so many options and scattered benchmark performance. The chip makers
have done an excellent job in confusing the market for buyers, IMO.
If you think you'll upgrade again soon, I'd get the cheaper chip.
On 2/19/2010 12:44 PM, Steve Tomporowski 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
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