Mini tower? Meeeeh.
This. I have an iBP and I could've gotten a much better graphics card and a motherboard with more RAM/PCI slots for the same price.
Radeon has pretty bad GPU drivers, the GPUs themselves are nice, the drivers just suck pretty hard.
They're 3rd Gen. Intel processors, those i3s have more processing power than a 2nd Gen. Core i7 processor.
didn't see that :D srry lol but I would go for the i5's even if it takes a month more of money saving.
As Viper said, ATI cards have very poor drivers' support. Performance is OK as long as drivers are working fine. Again, it's also the matter of preference. I have always been Intel's and nVidia's advocate since with AMD I have had only bad experience.
Don't get too excited. "Ivy Bridge" CPUs have a small (5-10%) performance advantage over 2nd generation Sandy Bridge chips, also Ivy Bridge CPUs use less power and have a more powerful graphics chip built in; however you still can't compare Ivy i3 with Sandy i7. i7 still wins.
Well, I know a bit about this, not that much, but a review showed that in BF3, when using the i3, because it only has 2 cores, some of the NPC's just disappear, so if they are needed to open a door or something, the door will just open itself... not sure why. But I guess this would suggest that an i5 is a better deal. But I'm not super educated, just my 2cents.
Well, many people do. It's one of the best games out there that offers multiplayer vehicular gameplay. But besides that, friend. I was just thinking that the i3 isn't really a good choice. If it makes NPC's disappear, who knows what it does on other games? It could do anything.
Ah, figured the 3rd Gen. i3s would still hold a lot over the heads of 2nd Gen. Core i7s, but I guess not. Too bad I can't rate that Agree and Informative. :/
