when it comes to minor difference, how to figure it out if its worth the money?

[Bootzzz]

Hi

Can we look at 3 chips?
1) i5-4570
2) i5-4670
3) i7-4771

The main difference from what I can tell is minor clock speed difference, and an increase from 6 to 8 core hyper threading.

I'm seeing the performance increase as marginal, but the associated cost, makes me question the value. yes these are in iMacs.

so for an iMac with the i5-4570 chip its $1999\
an iMac with i5-4670 its an additional $200 to $2199
an iMac with i7-4771 its again an additional $200 or $2399

having said that, in the i7 the gpu is bumped up from 1GB ram to 2GB ram. However, with music production gpu's are of little consideration. More important is the RAM, and hdd space, along with cpu. Music production is such that, you open a daw, then you open a plugin (another program within the program), that will tweak the sound sample the way you want. There could be anywhere from 10 tracks like this to 400 tracks.

The question is, will those minor difference, really play a role.

Thanks for reply.

[David (PassMark)]

It would depend somewhat on the individual software package you are using to edit the music and how much your time is worth. For example if the code is all single threaded, the additional CPU cores would be nearly worthless.

Is saving (for example) 5min per day worth $400 to you?