Refurb vs new iMac

[duc848]

any opinions on these two 27" iMac?

Price wise, its very similar if I upgrade the Refurb to 8G ddr3 ram.

Just curious as to how much difference these machines will be:
1) 1333Mhz vs 1600Mhz ram
2) 3.1G vs 2.9G (turbo boost to 3.6 <--whatever that means)
3) most importantly....the 6970M 1G card vs the 660M 512M card

primary use, light gaming (wow, rift etc), simple photo editing, movies, etc

Refurbished:
3.1GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
Cache 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache
4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA1; 7200 rpm
AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
8x SuperDrive with 4x double-layer burning (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

NEW:
2.9GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
Cache 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512MB GDDR5


thanks again

 

[Fifteen20s]

Buy the new with 4gig then upgrade yourself

With your processor question

2) 3.1G vs 2.9G (turbo boost to 3.6 <--whatever that means)
Likely unnoticeable speed difference .... but the new processor supports USB 3.0