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Hello all,
I am hoping to buy a new pc next week and would like to know should I buy a I5 with gtx 1060 or pay that bit more and get i7 gtx1060 . How much cpu usage is involved when running a gtx1060 card. I only have a budget of about £850.
Thanks and sorry if this has been asked before.
Cheers Kev
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You can even buy an i3-8100 or something lower and it would be completly sufficient to support that GPU. CPU-power is quite irrelevant for hashcat, as long as you're not running a couple of 1080Ti's.
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(07-02-2018, 11:02 PM)Flomac Wrote: You can even buy an i3-8100 or something lower and it would be completly sufficient to support that GPU. CPU-power is quite irrelevant for hashcat, as long as you're not running a couple of 1080Ti's.
Thanks for your reply
Was looking at these
https://www.johnlewis.com/dell-inspiron-...e/p3553430
https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-pavilion-po...k/p3417828
Or maybe this
https://www.johnlewis.com/xps-8900-deskt...k/p3417530
Thanks again Kev
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(07-02-2018, 11:02 PM)Flomac Wrote: You can even buy an i3-8100 or something lower and it would be completly sufficient to support that GPU. CPU-power is quite irrelevant for hashcat, as long as you're not running a couple of 1080Ti's.
whats the difference in cpu terms for example if you are going to run 1 1080ti or 4 1080ti? what cpu would you recommend for 1 vs 4? thanks.
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I used to calculate one core per GPU. But since the bumber of cores escalated, why not taking a solid i3-8100 with 4 cores for 1-2 GPUs and something like an i5-8400 with 6 cores for 3-4 GPUs.
