Hello guys,
I am looking at the HP pavillion desktop PC's as they are in my price range.
One of the PC's come with intel core i7-6700 Processor and the other comes with an i5-6400. The i5 processor is obviously cheaper!. Apart from that, they are almost identical and both have intel HD integrated 530 graphics. The 530 is a mid range iGPU and should be okay since fsx is heavily coded for CPU usage. My question is: is the £130 extra spend worth it for better fsx frame rates and performance. I will probably use aerosoft airbus and PMDG as well as UK2000 scenery. I want at least 20-25FPS. Is the i7 with higher clock speed and hyperthreading better than the cheaper i5 with no hyperthreading?
Here are the rest of the specs:
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 64
Processor Chipset: Intel H110
Processor speed: 3.4 GHz
Processor family: 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700 (3.4 GHz, up to 4 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4 cores)
Hard drive: 128 GB SATA SSD
Hard drive (2nd): 2 TB 5400 rpm SATA
Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 530
Graphics: Integrated
Network interface: Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Wireless: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (1x1) and Bluetooth® 4.0 combo
Ports1 USB 2.0
1 headphone/microphone combo
2 USB 2.0
4 USB 3.0
1 audio in
1 audio out
1 microphone in
Expansion slots:
1 PCIe x1
1 PCIe x16
1 M.2
Memory: 8 GB DDR3L-1600 SDRAM (2 x 4 GB)
Memory slots: 2 DIMM
Memory and storage: 8 GB memory
2 TB HDD storage
128 GB SSD storage
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=Y6V31EA&opt=ABU&sel=DTP
or
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=Y4K56EA&opt=ABU&sel=DTP