Originally Posted by
peterhr
Processor - Hmm. A faster dual core used to be better than a slower 4 core.
Newer games seem to be expecting a quad core now, and, with eight slow cores on the new consoles, I'd expect future games ported from those consoles to use as many cores as they can get.
For gaming, I have an i7 with 32GB of RAM, Windows 7 and a GTX660; the RAM is overkill (but was cheap when I bought it), the CPU isn't pushed very hard on the games I own, but the GPU is starting to struggle to run with graphics settings maxed out on the newer ones. And, yeah, it boots pretty fast from the SSD.