i7 4770 or i5 4670?

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i7 4770 or i5 4670?

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or something else?

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Man, they are slicing that market pretty fine, aren't they?

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4 ... re-i5-4670

Assuming this is for general personal use, then do you ever run anything that benefits from Hyperthreading? That'd be my advice to you.

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sli? yay or nay?

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Multimonitor gaming kinda requires it, but you're going to run into different quality issues with SLI.

This is one example that someone recently asked about around here: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-C ... ons/Discov. I like how everyone's using the color stripes on the side of the screen now to see what part of a frame is from where since nvidia developed that tech to out AMD on having a long tail distribution for frame rendering times causing stutters.
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so would dual card in non-sli be better than sli?

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That seems like a silly choice.

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Agreed. Dual card in non-sli wouldn't cooperate to render frames in a game. I don't even think you'd get any benefit from the second card other than being able to hook up even more monitors. I think AMD cards now can support up to 3 1080p monitors per mini display port and they have 2 of those ports. I'm not sure that nVidia supports quite so many I think 3 or 4 monitors is what we support per card. I could go look it up, but I'm too lazy.
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I am looking for triple monitors setup. everything I have found so far does dual monitors or stretch screen resolution to fit three monitors but it's not true triple monitors setup (ie monitor 1,2,3 have different resolution/orientation, not monitor 1,2A,2B)

Let me know if I have misunderstood

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You mean like outlined in this thread?
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1683358
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http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2279326

The second seems to say you can control up to 4 independent displays with a 640
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