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About LinkBacksImagine what someone would get with 3x SLi 280's lolOriginally Posted by Hawker1986
Imagine what someone would get with 3x SLi 280's lol
the prices are dropping! you can get a gigabyte mobo for just a tad overt £200 now when at launch it was £230!
the price of the cpu is also going down,£230 for the 920 retail boxed version when it was around £260 when it first launhed.
will the i7 cpu go down to the magic £200 mark by january? i need every once of pennies i can save on my i7 build so i can hose it all it a top of the range case ie the coolermaster 840 or the lian li full tower ones, both sporting a price of over £150
i also want to dump in at least a 260gtx card the 216core version to boot and im all set!
http://www.scan.co.uk/shops/Intel/i7.aspx
I hope they come down for everyone! But I'm impatient, I don't care, I'm buying my dream PC NOW!the prices are dropping! you can get a gigabyte mobo for just a tad overt £200 now when at launch it was £230!
the price of the cpu is also going down,£230 for the 920 retail boxed version when it was around £260 when it first launhed.
will the i7 cpu go down to the magic £200 mark by january? i need every once of pennies i can save on my i7 build so i can hose it all it a top of the range case ie the coolermaster 840 or the lian li full tower ones, both sporting a price of over £150
i also want to dump in at least a 260gtx card the 216core version to boot and im all set!
http://www.scan.co.uk/shops/Intel/i7.aspx
lol
Also: some one was comparing 4gb ddr2 ram againts the i7's 6gb ddr3 ram. the person who posted that should post it like for like ie if your gunna compare 4gb sticks, compare 4gb sticks on the i7 rig too.
if u do that, the prices between the two becomes closer.
fixed
Er.. isn't one of the points of the i7 that it has triple channel? If you're not going to use the new features then why would you buy a new processor?
Yeah I agree... I don't think it functions as well on dual, as it does on triple...
That's why I selected triple. Either way, it's inexpensive really in terms of performancerice ratio, as far as I can tell.
But if you already have a fast system there's no point in spending £600 in upgrades... I'm buying a completely new system, however, because I don't have a PC (only this laptop), and I don't mind spending a bit more to upgrade to something that I'll eventually have to upgrade to anyways, which will work out to cost the same in the end.
yes but does it make a load of difference from dual to triple? the prices of a i7 build is not has bad as some of you think. yes a core 2 is £100-£200 cheaper at best but come on, the i7 is a new architecture and a new product.
what do you expect? to be priced the same has last gens offerings?
if your coming from a p4 or equivalent pc then going to a i7 instead of a core 2 for £100-£200 extra is worth it IMO for abit of future proofing.
If your on a core 2 then its understandable that you should stick to that for a while. all and all its not a bad thing to get a i7 nore is THAT expensive over the last Gen
The thing is, is that yes i can buy that cheap E8300 core 2 now for around £500-£600 but later down the line i still have to buy an i7 or AMD's offering at some point for another £500-£600 and the total of that?
1.1/1.2k, the same price of a i7 system that you can build now
Without benchmarking, I can't see any difference between triple channel and single channel yet, never mind double. Obviously it will be slower, but unless I'm doing something really CPU intensive (a multicore encode or something) then I doubt there'll be much difference.
I'll be back to up to triple when I get my dodgy RAM module replaced, but I'm sure dual-channel won't be noticeably slower without benchmarking. Perhaps when heavily overclocking that difference will be exaggerated a bit more though - I've left mine at stock at the moment as I don't see any point in overclocking with the memory controller being rather less stressed than it will be.
It's nice. All my recent boards have been ASUS, more by circumstance than anything else, but I'm sick of them using huge northbridge coolers that are, frankly, ****. All eye-candy with little performance. I was going to go Abit this time around (loved the Dark Raider and cheaper boards I used on systems I built for others), but them pulling out of the motherboard market scuppered that plan.
I was calling the UD5 every name under the sun for the problems, as I genuinely thought it was that and a dodgy BIOS which was causing the problems, but have to retract that now. My only complaint about it is that it's only got 2 internal USB headers on the motherboard, when I could use more for memory card readers and such. Other than that, I can't complain about anything. Considering it was cheaper than anything other than the DS4 when I bought it, I was wondering why people were buying the P6T.
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j.o.s.h.1408 (01-12-2008)
No it doesn't make much difference, but then again, neither does going to quad core from dual.
i heard it does when your running lots of apps ie multi tasking alot which i do alot on my pc/laptop.
i hear people closing their web browsers and anti virus programs etc when they play pc games on a dual core but i tend to leave most things open while i game so a quad core is definetly made for me.
the problem with cpu technology is that it has advance soo much that software's is whats lagging behind alot as there are not much mutli threaded apps that take advance of even a dual core let alone a quad core
Still possible on a dual core cpu. It's what I used to do with my Athlon X2 and on a quad it's even better I suppose
When I bought the mobo and cpu, they were quite cheap compared to their price the next day. Several sites also mentioned being about to clock higher with the P6T, so i went with Asus.
I don't think there's much difference between most of them (except the extreme has tri-sli and up to 24gb of ram if you need it) anyway; Asus and Gigabyte are the best manufacturers imo.
Getting some good performance though
3.8 at 1.29v at the moment, can boot and use windows with 1.22v, but it wasn't stable at all once you start doing intensive stuff. Changing Vuncore and cpu pll might help with that though i think.
you on water or air?
air, i need better or more fans to get to 3.9/4ghz stable
it's pretty solid at the moment though.
wow thats impressive! im looking to get a 920 into 3.2ghz in air and it seems like it will be very easy to do so!
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