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anyone upgrading to core i7?
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On that last point there will be a core i5 with IGP not an i9 here's the chart. Also they say that the architecture is westmere but i've read it lynnfield
That's a lot of new sockets by the looks of things. Bit of a pain in the ass.
Yup I got one. I bought it from www.hpm-computer.deIt seems alot of people went with the Noctua cpu cooler is that because of the dual fan?
Can I ask AlmightyCushion did you buy a thermalright and if so where?0 -
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Not really as a more general mITX market is just starting to take off, seeing as liquid cooling solves a lot of problems with CPU cooler form factor so long as you can mount or mod a single 120mm fan on a given SFF case (with SFF more often mod than mount
). There are already a ton of mATX X58 boards for LAN rigs so the lack of AM3 ones is a real bone of contention (AM2 not only forces you to use DDR2 but even with a SB750 and ACC P2s just don't want to OC well on them 
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In any case we may well see an i5 mITX and the existance of high-end AM2+ mITX boards suggests an AM3 update is more than possible but I doubt we'll see i7/i9 mITX boards. Then again, in that niche market a little demand goes a long way and we've already seen Zotac and J&W push the form factor into the mainstream...0 -
there are not much games out there wich are actually using quad power.. that sayed..
so when u wanna a game rig, there is no need for UBER everything, but a smart chose of something. :P
the difference in games between intel 2 Quad or an i7 wouldnt be as much as the difference between a older graphics card compared to a new one... or a weak model to a high-end!!!
my way would be, go for a really good LGA775 MB (good OC) with good pair of ram and core 2 Quad. really good OC potencial even with air-cooling!!!! and invest the money saved in the latest on graphics card and in a SSD as a boot disk... 0 -
Yeah, except that most places are finally starting to run low on Q6600/6700 stock, which is a big prob as the 45nm C2Qs kinda suck. They're not bad, just overpriced and OC-unfriendly (any headroom you could exploit would come at the price of upping the mobo spend from ~€100 to ~€200) Its kinda sucky when you drop €300 on a C2Q and mobo and have a hard time scraping 3.4GHz on heavy OC when some chancer with a €80 X2-550BE and an ASRock mobo goes and unlocks the other cores and gets it running stable at 3.4GHz at lower voltage and heat for just over half the price. Not that the P2s are particularly predictable in temperment but they're such good competition against those lacklustre 45nm C2Qs Intel must be feeling a bit green right now... just bad timing to show weakness in that end of the market with AMD on the rampage again thanks to the wacky world of Phenom2
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The big issue is that more and more new game releases seem to be thread-aware so its a bad time to lack a defensive tri-core option which is both fast but not too off the pace for overall power compared to a slower quad. With the easy-OC X3-720BE selling for peanuts its a good time to go for more than two cores... just in case...0 -
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Yeah, except that most places are finally starting to run low on Q6600/6700 stock, which is a big prob as the 45nm C2Qs kinda suck. They're not bad, just overpriced and OC-unfriendly (any headroom you could exploit would come at the price of upping the mobo spend from ~€100 to ~€200) Its kinda sucky when you drop €300 on a C2Q and mobo and have a hard time scraping 3.4GHz on heavy OC when some chancer with a €80 X2-550BE and an ASRock mobo goes and unlocks the other cores and gets it running stable at 3.4GHz at lower voltage and heat for just over half the price. Not that the P2s are particularly predictable in temperment but they're such good competition against those lacklustre 45nm C2Qs Intel must be feeling a bit green right now... just bad timing to show weakness in that end of the market with AMD on the rampage again thanks to the wacky world of Phenom2 [/nitpick]
The E0 stepping 45nm C2Qs overclock really well (I can vouch for the Q9650 at least). I have mine 24/7 OC to 4GHz on air at moderate voltage on an Asus X380 -
I really meant the cheapie Q8X00 and the Q9300, Q9450 and up are good kit, but sometimes too close to i7-920 in price. Actually the price cuts have dropped the Q9550 out of stark-raving-loony land and its now a sweet buy given its now well under €190! 0
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