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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme Gaming Desktop (GXi2000CST) on sale for $899.99. Shipping is $14.99.
Specs:
Intel Core i5-13400F Processor
32GB DDR5 Memory
2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe Solid State Drive
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Graphics
802.11AC WiFi + Bluetooth 4.2
Includes USB Gaming Keyboard & 7 Colors Gaming Mouse
Ports:
4x USB 3.1 (2 Front, 2 Rear)
2x USB 2.0 (2 Rear)
1x RJ45 LAN
1x HDMI DisplayPort
3x Audio Jacks
https://www.costco.com/cyberpower...ue&nf=true
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The main reason the i3 and i5 exist is due to yield. In many fabs, all the processors start out at the highest tier and the ones that don't qualify to be an "i7" get cut down to produce the i5 or i3. The alternative to this is simply throw them away.
A 14th Gen i3 has roughly as much processing power as a 10th Gen i7, while using less power and having more features. At the same time, a 14th Gen i5 gives 13th Gen i7s a run for their money.
Name one other product where the model that costs almost four times less begins to outclass the upper tier model in a span of four years, if ever.
Your analogy doesn't work, simply because none of these models are old. They all exist in the same generation, with the same architectural features and the "chassis" (in this case, the motherboard) is compatible with every single model.
By your analogy, it would be equivalent to being able to take the engine and drivetrain off a Lexus, swap it into a Corolla, and still end up with a Lexus at the end of it.
The i5 is perfectly adequate for most games, especially when they're console ports that are mostly GPU bound.
Different processors serve different segments and there's a ton of overlap which I guarantee you would not care about if it weren't for benchmarks.
Saying the i7 should be the baseline just means Intel would have to put out an i11 to top the i9 that already exists.
Wait, you know about the i9, right?
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Excellent deal imo. Getting a significant step up in specs will require spending probably $1300-1500. This will be popular.
Right. I've been indecisive about it for over a week now, despite the price drop by 100$. I wish they just took that extra 100$ and offered i7 instead. I'd be happy to pay 900-1000$ for i7 13th gen, 32 gb ddr5 ram, 4060 graphics card, and some ssd storage. The Lenovo deal from Newegg for 910$ is tempting. But it doesn't come with 32gb ram (only 16gb) or the 2 yr warranty that Costco ones do. it is so irritating when you know the extra 16gb ram would have cost them very less and they could have upgraded it and offered it for net 950 or 975$ or so.
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You might be shocked to find that there's also :gasp: an i3, Pentium, Celeron, as well as embedded processors in Intel's lineup.
The i5 is perfectly adequate for most games, especially when they're console ports that are mostly GPU bound.
Different processors serve different segments and there's a ton of overlap which I guarantee you would not care about if it weren't for benchmarks.
Saying the i7 should be the baseline just means Intel would have to put out an i11 to top the i9 that already exists.
Wait, you know about the i9, right?
It's the graphics card that's hard to beat when purchasing retail.
You can reasonably get the rest of the components for pretty close to what they have always costed (obviously accounting for inflation).
However, ever since the mining craze and scalping during COVID, the price of graphics cards shot up $100 or more from their pre-2020 prices. There's also fewer incentives for deep discounts these days, as the scarcity created a lot of stagnation in everyone's upgrade cycles.
The prices could have fluctuated back to normal already, but because people held the line, there's a massive surplus of what will soon become old inventory still going into newer builds. A good indicator will be when you stop seeing Intel 13th and 14th generation based systems sold with Nvidia 3000 series cards.
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Then you simply don't understand processor architecture.
The main reason the i3 and i5 exist is due to yield. In many fabs, all the processors start out at the highest tier and the ones that don't qualify to be an "i7" get cut down to produce the i5 or i3. The alternative to this is simply throw them away.
A 14th Gen i3 has roughly as much processing power as a 10th Gen i7, while using less power and having more features. At the same time, a 14th Gen i5 gives 13th Gen i7s a run for their money.
Name one other product where the model that costs almost four times less begins to outclass the upper tier model in a span of four years, if ever.
Your analogy doesn't work, simply because none of these models are old. They all exist in the same generation, with the same architectural features and the "chassis" (in this case, the motherboard) is compatible with every single model.
By your analogy, it would be equivalent to being able to take the engine and drivetrain off a Lexus, swap it into a Corolla, and still end up with a Lexus at the end of it.
Outside the enthusiast word, there is no discernible difference between a modern i5 and i7 processor in the same generation. Programs open and load within milliseconds.
The 13400F has ten cores. What more do you want? Are you pushing for overly fast FPS rates or encoding video? You might look at at i7.