Intel core i5 or i7?

Anyone can build a PC and get it working like lego as you say, but tweaking it for optimum performance with minimal gating takes skill.

I've seen many systems set-up with wrong RAM freq's, CPU's without thermal grease, bent or crushed CPU coolers and fans installed backwards. They all turned on, but didn't work worth a damn under load. The big one was a guy complaining his external HD wasn't working and I found he had forced the HD USB plug into his network jack.

Whilst I agree to a point, a sensible person would also do a bit of research, and get advice from experienced builders - plenty of overclocking forums out there with super friendly and helpful people.

It really depends on what your time is worth, and if it is better for you to have someone else build it.

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Yeah there are plenty idiots around still.

Had a guy in the same IT class who mounted his new cpu to the cooler, and then tried to force that onto the socket. Intel sockets was still using pins at the time and you can guess what happened.
Clients who couldn't start their PC, I get there and the laptops power button and the area surrounding it looks to have smashed with a hammer..

The trick with lego, ikea and PC's is to read the manuals that come with.
Even though I have put together dozens of computer I still at least skim the mounting instructions.
Just in case some detail in the process has changed since the last one, I don't build on a regular basis anymore so often some time passes between each build.


Read the manual, apply some now rather uncommon sense and you should be fine not just for building computers but also life in general.
 
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Just to add to the discussion....I7 will be overkill for 'just gaming'. However, if you are going to do video capture, streaming, video editing, etc. I7 works much better for this type of use.
 
I am buying a new PC for the Vive.
The specs are
Intel core i5-6600k up to 4.2ghz
memory-16gb ddr4 2133mh2
nvidia GTX 1080 8gb.

i can buy the same rig, but with an i7 core 6700k up to 4.6ghz, for £500 more. Is that worth the extra £500?

as other's have said.. no need for i7 for ED VR. If you have 1080 and SSD, 16gb ram you'll be fine, the rest is just getting your OS and USB ports to work with it. Wait a few months if you fancy a new cpu
 
My Skylake i5 6600k is over clocked to 4.5GHz and has been outstanding.

I had a Sandy i7 in my old build and had to disable hyperthreading because it was causing stutter in Elite, thats why I went with the i5 in my new build.

No benefit to having the extra VCores in all the games I've played in VR.
 
I'm in the same position.

Going to upgrade my CPU/Mobo... settled on the i5 6600 @ £200 plus mobo for £108 ish... Now is my Strix R390 gonna do the VR job? Oh I got 16Gb although I am not sure if its hugely fast memory (DDR3 I think)

Also I'm not that confident around overclocking so most likely leave it stock.

Oh and Upgrading from a FX 6300...
 
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