When I built my current system (about three years ago) I went with an i5-3570K because I didn't want to spend an extra couple hundred bucks for the i7 hyperthreading. I have no complaints.
ASUS MBs: agreed
I installed a liquid CPU cooler a while ago and I found the bracket install to be unexpectedly, inordinately, insanely difficult.
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Date: 2016-08-21 05:39 pm (UTC)When I built my current system (about three years ago) I went with an i5-3570K because I didn't want to spend an extra couple hundred bucks for the i7 hyperthreading. I have no complaints.
ASUS MBs: agreed
I installed a liquid CPU cooler a while ago and I found the bracket install to be unexpectedly, inordinately, insanely difficult.