Core i5 or Core i7? Please correct the title or the description.
I hope it isn't an i5 for this price. Micro Center has had them for $179 .... today http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0354589

If you click on the link it,
it is the i7 2700k

I had a friend that told me i5 was for word processing and i7 was for gaming!
And he is a MCSE IT Professional!
LOL

Professional asshat maybe. I use my OC'ed i2500k to 4.5ghz for plenty of gaming goodness and it don't bottleneck nuthin.

LOL.... yeah...

The product page says $360. Not much difference from the title's listed price, but still...

ROFL of course I'm sure any good MCSE course is going to cover the gaming capabilities of Intel processors, right? *sarcasm* Not sure if you're trolling or just really that dense. Anyway, I have a Core i5-based laptop that's been able to handle every game I've thrown at it (except for a couple that seem to be issues with the nVidia video drivers). But point being, an i5-based system with a decent video card and sufficient RAM will surely do a great job on any modern games, any bottlenecks will probably not be at the processor. The i3, on the other hand... eh, I wouldn't try to build a gaming system around it unless I was on a very tight budget.

No offense to people who have MCSE training but if all they have for cred is that to tell you... The in the field experience that follows is more important.

Word processing though, lol. First generation Celeron 500MHz is fine for that, the (semi-modern) OS itself dictates higher hardware requirements. Even web surfing these days takes multiple times as much processing power due to all those !@#$ flash animations everywhere.

Decent processor for todays tech requirement.