i5 is good enough - i7s are for post processing, 3d rendering, audio encoding, etc.
SSDs are so much faster than traditional hard drives it's stupid. they are exponentially quicker.
no standard computer has 16GB of RAM. 8GB is more than enough in most instances outside of, say, a massive modded skyrim install.
4GB or 3GB VRAM is starting to become the standard for loading extremely high texture packs.
yes, build out.
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