Originally Posted by Goku
No games take advantage of the HT is why the 3570K is always neck to neck with the 3770K. You don't even notice a performance increase going to the 6 core HT 3930K from the additional cores/cache.
GTX 670 is still a better investment in my opinion over the 7870. Still no word on price drops for that card either. Like I said the $100 from the 3770K is better spent on the video card.
Cache isn't everything on a drive and SATA III does nothing for HDDs due to not even coming close to the limits of Sata II. The drive has better read and write verse that western digital. The F3 was the fatest drive last year up until the Hitachi released one that beat it. You say you don't need the extra storage now, but you never know. Considering how much you are spending now on this computer I see no reason to cheap out on the HDD.
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Couldn't find any numbers/data on the hard drive read/write speeds to compare them...but I did swap for the 670 and back to the i5 core.
Micro-ATX build:
SilverStone Temjin Series TJ08B-E -
$97.99
Western Digital WD5002AALX 500GB -
$99.99
LITE-ON Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive -
$18.99
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB DDR3 1600 -
$46.99
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz -
$239.99
GIGABYTE GA-Z77M-D3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 -
$114.99
Gigabyte GV-N670OC-2GD GeForce GTX 670 2 gb -
$399.99
SeaSonic M12II 620W or the PCPCS -
$89.99
Total : $1108.92