June 2, 201214 yr Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W V2 80 + SSD Corsair 120GB SSD - Force 3 Motherboard: MSI Z77 - Socket 1155 - Z77 - ATX Processor: Intel ® Core i7 2600K - 3.4GHz - 8MB Memory: Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB - 7200RPM - 32MB Optical Drive: Samsung 22X DL Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5 (965Mhz) Sound Card: Yes Networking: 10/100/1000 Mbps Connectivity: 2xDVI, HDMI, DisplayPort Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OR Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W V2 80 + SSD Corsair 120GB SSD - Force 3 Motherboard: MSI Z77 - Socket 1155 - Z77 - ATX Processor: Intel ® Core i5 2500K - 3.3GHz - 6MB Memory: Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB - 7200RPM Optical Drive: Samsung 22X DL Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5 (965Mhz) Sound Card: Yes Networking: 10/100/1000 Mbps Connectivity: 2xDVI, HDMI, DisplayPort Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
June 2, 201214 yr While they are both excellent spec rigs, to get the best from today's addons, you really need to be looking at OC'ing up to about 4.5Ghz. I have the i52500K and it runs beautifully stable and smooth at 4.6Ghz. HowardMSI Mag B650 Tomahawk MB, Ryzen7-7800X3D CPU@5ghz, Arctic AIO II 360 cooler, Nvidia RTX4090 GPU, 32gb DDR5@6000Mhz, SSD/2Tb+SSD/500Gb+OS, Corsair 1000W PSU, LG Ultragear 48"4K, MFG Crosswinds, TQ6 Throttle, Fulcrum One YokeMy FlightSim YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@skyhigh776
June 2, 201214 yr Author so which one I should choose? the i5-2500k Pc costs: 1299€ i7-2600k: 1349€ 50€ is the difference between these so.. should I buy i7?
June 3, 201214 yr Here are my specs, she runs seamlessly: CASE: Azza CSAZ-2000R CPU: i7-2600k @ 4.2GHz COOLER: Frio Dual 120mm MOBO: EVGA Z68 FTW GRAPHICS: EVGA GTX 670 FTW 2GB RAM: Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 16GB HDD: 1TB (FSX Has its own) The 2600k has an unlocked multiplier giving you an easier access to overclocking. Not sure if i5-2500k does. If you can, get a GTX 670 FTW card it has more juice. Not much of a price difference. Not sure which manufacturer are you going with but I built my rig based on EVGA products so everything is compatible. 670 temps are within 40*C range running FSX and NGX. Compare that to 60C running two 8800 GTS in SLI. Just another note, I'd get a bigger PSU just because 670 requires a minimum of 500 watts. You want to leave room for other components like CPU overclocking and fans on the rig. If you run the PSU at 100% you will be replacing them quite often. You generally do not want to exceed the 80% mark. Jakub Wesolowski
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