CPU over GPU ?

Roooker

Roooker

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Hi,
i just got asked to pick some parts for a 800 € gaming pc. I tend to get asked quite often nowadays because for some reason my classmates and friends figured out that i am into the hardware stuff :)

He wants to use his system ONLY for gaming and do nothing else. So i went with an i5 3570k and a 660 ti or 7950. Not quite sure though. Thats what a lot of people tend to use for gaming.

My mate just told me today that he ordered an i7 3770k and a 660(no ti). I was quite confused why he changed the parts and asked him. He seriously just said: For the sake of having an i7 !

I heard this quite often now and i just dont understand why people do that ? Why would i choose a "better" cpu if i dont utilise the performance ? Why do i want less gpu power if that is the most important thing in a gaming pc ? I just dont get it why so many people do that.
 
For bragging rights/show off, not that 3770k is that expensive. Or some people are incredibly stubborn and don't take advice from people who know better.
 
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Well, people don't normally keep GPU's for more than a year or two until they upgrade, CPU's are more long term so it makes sense if you think of it that way. And a 660 nonti isnt that bad, it's all you really need for any game out there on a single 1080p 60hz monitor. I would have gone with the 7870 though.

Like for example, go 2 years down the road, he could very well be running 8950 crossfire or something, with a 144hz monitor or multiple monitor setup. That would mean the 3770 makes more sense getting it now.
 
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Normally when builders like Dell or Advent spec up a system they put in the best CPU possible and then disregard everything else.

It's a huge selling point in computers tbh. A gaming system on the other hand needs to be more well balanced and as we know there's hardly anything in it for gaming by using an I7 over the equivalent I5. Mostly because most games only use up to four cores.
 
who cares, let him be. stupid people like big numbers and everyone "knows" that i7s are the high performance CPUs. also everyone has heard the term CPU some time, but not necessarily gpu. let him be happy with his wasted money.
 
Oh god the same thing happened to me but with a 7870 Tahiti and a 3770k with 16 gb ram, a thermaltek budget-y case and a 2tb hard drive (it was a bundle minus the tahiti which was going to be a 660 because he "didn't trust" AMD) . For the price he paid for it he could've spent the extra money on useful things like a non stock cooler or a better motherboard. His reasoning was that "Oh, all the good youtubers have i7s". To add insult to injury when he found out another chum with a *gasp* i5 and a 580 were getting more frames he blamed me. Yay.

TLDR:
I blame youtube gaming setups.
 
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barnsley said:
Oh god the same thing happened to me but with a 7870 Tahiti and a 3770k with 16 gb ram, a thermaltek budget-y case and a 2tb hard drive (it was a bundle minus the tahiti which was going to be a 660 because he "didn't trust" AMD) . For the price he paid for it he could've spent the extra money on useful things like a non stock cooler or a better motherboard. His reasoning was that "Oh, all the good youtubers have i7s". To add insult to injury when he found out another chum with a *gasp* i5 and a 580 were getting more frames he blamed me. Yay.

TLDR:
I blame youtube gaming setups.
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slap him in the face and tell him to go f*ck himself.
i hate people who don't appreciate help or even go that far to think they know more than an experienced user.
 
SeekaX said:
slap him in the face and tell him to go f*ck himself.
i hate people who don't appreciate help or even go that far to think they know more than an experienced user.
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He has recently apologised after I beat the shit out of him on ARMA and Chivalry :cool: also, he'd discovered that his computer was now 2nd in our little group's "computer specs table thingy"(based on game performance and the amount of times they complain about frame rate) as opposed to last and that was enough for him. Although I soon plan to take that spot from him with my new system I'm building ^_^.
 
My " mate " next door last week had a problem with his mac book pro, so he went out and borrowed a mini mac with an i7 2600, and came knocking my door, and he got it out of his bag and actually said. Check this out, got a new mac, 4 gig ram whatever graphics and an i7. what you got in that ( pointing at my rig ) i5 innit ? He opened Borderlands 1, and was getting around the 20 frame mark. I didn't even reply with an answer. I just swiftly changed the topic, whilst he had a big smurk on his face.

Then again he loves any thing with an apple, nuf said really.
 
paulstung said:
That was exactly my response, nothing. Thing is though he has a computer science A level.
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I did mechanical engineering for a few semesters (didn't finish, bad health), and even with the more technically minded crowd Apple's laptops seem to be quite popular (not just those who are completely clueless about computers and just want it to work). The reason I stay away from Apple is not really related to their products though but more to the company's behavior in general (which I would classify as somewhere between dickish and evil empire).

As for the general theme of this thread: Some people are just too stubborn to take sane advice, and the majority of human beings aren't really all that smart anyway, to be polite (yes, I do not have a very positive outlook on the human species :p ). Doesn't necessarily make them bad people (intelligence is not really directly bound to quality of character as far as my experiences go; I know a guy who really could only be classified as rather dumb, but he's the most kindhearted fella you'll ever meet, lovely chap, and I've met some very smart people who I can only describe as pure assholes) , just... easy victims of marketing hype :rolleyes:

Of course, when someone who's dumb also becomes arrogant enough not to take advice, that's when things get annoying :banghead:
 
SeekaX said:
also their prices are unreasonable.
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Oh yeah, completely forgot about that! :lol:

Although I belong to those suckers who bought a Titan, so I'm not sure if unreasonable prices (yes, I do not believe the Titan is really worth its money, especially not for gaming; possibly for computing which is what I bought it for, but even then... :unsure: ) would be a sufficient deterrent if everything else was ok with Apple.
 
The simplest reason is because they don't know any better... and are too up their own arse to listen to more educated people.
 
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