i7 Processor?

[allthatwhichis]

Do not look at the following photo, it may be the coolest man toy ever created.

You had me with that one for a moment... I started to look where the board was attached to the "case".

EDIT:
I missed the surgeon all together until now...

My last build was a opteron 175 with 4gigs of DDR500. I am sure there are some shots of the watercooling radiator on here somewhere; 3x120... I said fuck it and got a Dell for both my last computers. The last one I got, that I use for lasers, cost me $600... but that was with the 24 inch monitor. Piddly E5200 with 3gigs of RAM, but all it's got to do is run Pango and play music. No 3DMark200N needed.

[Doc]

You had me with that one for a moment... I started to look where the board was attached to the "case".

EDIT:
I missed the surgeon all together until now...

My last build was a opteron 175 with 4gigs of DDR500. I am sure there are some shots of the watercooling radiator on here somewhere; 3x120... I said fuck it and got a Dell for both my last computers. The last one I got, that I use for lasers, cost me $600... but that was with the 24 inch monitor. Piddly E5200 with 3gigs of RAM, but all it's got to do is run Pango and play music. No 3DMark200N needed.

I'm still running an Opteron 285 in one of my Media Centers, and the machine I'm posting this from is and old Athlon 6k.

I have been thinking about building an i7 for a while, but I have an i5 laptop to buy first.

[gottaluvlasers]

thanks for the info everyone!

Those SSD's just seem amazing. but we're talking stupid amounts of money for high storage capacities arent we?

i am leaning toward an i7 920/960

-Marc

[danielbriggs]

thanks for the info everyone!

Those SSD's just seem amazing. but we're talking stupid amounts of money for high storage capacities arent we?

i am leaning toward an i7 920/960

-Marc

Marc: 920 all the way. You can have it doing at least the speeds of the 960 within 5 mins, and it won't know the difference nor break a sweat.

More or less dead money if you get the higher model, in "relative" terms.
And if you can afford to go for the 960 - well... don't; buy a 60GB SSD for OS and a 1TB drive for storage.

[flecom]

get a 920, they are wicked fast...

i still have my QX6700 from eleventybillion years ago, but my 6x 73gb 15k U320 scsi drives in a RAID0 make for a really snappy machine

[300EVIL]

I third the 920. I love mine. Opens everything wicked fast and I HATE to wait for anything to load. No point wasting the money on anything faster unless you have a reason to. They overclock very well too.

Also, going with one or 2 SSD's and a large storage drive is definitely the way to go.

[Synce]

Well, I guess I'll just have to be the odd one out and vote for the AMD Phenom BE.

No, it doesn't put up the overclock speeds or the benchmarks as the i7 but, it is cheaper and it does do a pretty decent job at getting somewhere in the neighborhood.

Then again, maybe it's just in my nature to go "against the grain"

[300EVIL]

Well, I guess I'll just have to be the odd one out and vote for the AMD Phenom BE.

No, it doesn't put up the overclock speeds or the benchmarks as the i7 but, it is cheaper and it does do a pretty decent job at getting somewhere in the neighborhood.

Then again, maybe it's just in my nature to go "against the grain"

I was an AMD fan for many years simply because they beat Intel many times in the past and your right, they are very economical. However, after seeing the Q6600 and what it could do with minimal tweaking, I was sold.

INTEL ROCKS!

[Synce]

I was an AMD fan for many years simply because they beat Intel many times in the past and your right, they are very economical. However, after seeing the Q6600 and what it could do with minimal tweaking, I was sold.

INTEL ROCKS!

Can't argue with you on that one. They are very overclock friendly.

[hobbybob]

I have a Corei7-950 with 12GB of triple channel Ram.
I just love it, it's mega fast. But i totally agree with Daniel here.
After upgrading to an OCZ Vertex SSD, i really noticed a huge performance improvement (logging in in Windows Vista x64 in 5 seconds!).

So best advice i could give, go for Core i7-920 and an SSD disk.
If money's not an issue, go for i950 and overclock to 4Ghz and go for a SSD Disk.
I get 213MB/s read speed of the Vertex disk. I love OCZ (first to implement TRIM command in their drives/firmware!). Under Win7 the SSD is recognized and it's tuned for performance (by turning of indexing services etc). Under Vista or older, you have to tweak it yourself.
Plus you can run Wiper.exe from OCZ once a month to prevent performance degradation.
This utility sends the TRIM command to the drive when you start it. Takes around a minute to run and it cleans all the memory pages marked as "to be deleted" so that performance is back up again in the 200MB+ a second range ;-)