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i7-7700K vs i5 7600K comparison - Which one will you get?

Which CPU will you get?

  • I will get the i5

    Votes: 35 48.6%

  • I will get the i7

    Votes: 37 51.4%
  • Total voters
    72
Falcon80 said:
Would be interested to know as well. :)
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I have to order today.

Just waiting a couple of more hours of reading these forums.

iMac 27
1TB SSD
580 GPU
8 gigs (will add 32 gig for a total of 40)

and the last thing that i can not decide on.

3.8 i5 or 7.2 i7

Grr. i am going back and forth.

basically i hate fans so I am leaning towards just buying the 3.8 since i don't think it will matter, but if apple adds some sort of hyper threading thing to Xcode 9 that brings compiles down (i am just making this up) 20% I will be pissed I did not buy the i7.

But the last thing for the 3.8 is that I "hope" to upgrade to a mac pro next year.

so.

today.
 
macsplusmacs said:
I have to order today.

Just waiting a couple of more hours of reading these forums.

iMac 27
1TB SSD
580 GPU
8 gigs (will add 32 gig for a total of 40)

and the last thing that i can not decide on.

3.8 i5 or 7.2 i7

Grr. i am going back and forth.

basically i hate fans so I am leaning towards just buying the 3.8 since i don't think it will matter, but if apple adds some sort of hyper threading thing to Xcode 9 that brings compiles down (i am just making this up) 20% I will be pissed I did not buy the i7.

But the last thing for the 3.8 is that I "hope" to upgrade to a mac pro next year.

so.

today.
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What are you using now? Cuz if I were going to get a Mac Pro next year, I would save my money and buy nothing now.
 
macbook pro 2014.

i should prob. say i would LIKE a mac pro next year. so no guarantees.

I can't wait for iMac pro either. my current MacBook is starting to act weird. black areas on screen where an app is supposed to be. experienced this ages ago with the G5 mac pros. its a video thing. the card in the mac book is going.

and what if apple delays into iMac pro into Feb. etc.


+ 16 gigs is starting to page out too quickly.

+ this aged video card is too slow

+ I am sick of clamshell mode reboots having me to open it up and type in password. (i must have some USB item that is blocking normal restarts. )

+ i really, really, want do use multiple 5/4K monitors again, and since i own 2 Dell 4Ks its basically freebie for me. all i have to do is buy the USB C cables
 
koyoot said:
The problem which you do not understand is that Software matures and over time, your Core i5 will get much slower than Core i7, because of lack of Hyper Threading. Get as many cores and threads as possible for particular price point. I "like" when people say about future proofing their expensive computers, and then get away with Quad Core/Quad Thread CPU, because today its not important to have more.
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good advice except for you are actually not getting any additional cores with the i7. Today or in years time the difference between Kaby Lake i5 and i7 will stay the same (about 20% in the best case). I am a software engineer and there is no chance software will mature in the way that would significantly benefit HT vs non-HT on the same silicon gen.

Hyperthreading helps with utilisation of cores under certain workloads and its benefits are way too exaggerated unless you exclusively run syntetic benchmarks as your main task. Some tasks are actually running slower when split into logical threads on multithread CPU.

The main difference between i5 and i7 is higher tubo boost multiplayer and increased cache, which is responsible for vast majority of the performance advantage of the i7.
 
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