Anyone using the newer i7 intel processors? Are these things all that they are cracked up to be?? im looking at the 900 series.
Any first hand experience? I have read some pretty impressive results and benchmarks.
-Marc
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i7 Processor?
Anyone using the newer i7 intel processors? Are these things all that they are cracked up to be?? im looking at the 900 series.
Any first hand experience? I have read some pretty impressive results and benchmarks.
-Marc
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I have both an i7 860 (at home) and 920 (at work). I have to say I prefer the much older 920, but X58 motherboards are quite expensive.
There's no doubt that they are both very fast processors though. I use the computer at work for some pretty heavy calculations and what takes only a couple of hours for me takes several days for my colleagues on Core 2 processors.
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I'm running one of the earlier i7 920's with the triple channel ddr3, D0 stepping. It's fast! Overclocked to 4 GHz on air with a huge aftermarket heatsink, running in an Antec P182 case. My favorite PC build to date. You won't be disappointed!
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Marc - they're the dogs bollocks of mainstream processors.
I used a 950 for a customer a few months back. Was asked to take it to 4.0Ghz - it took no prob.
Personally: I would go for the 920. Value-wise, it's phenomenal.
P.S. Slightly unrelated, but screenshot during testing: (It shows CPU info though)
It had 2x GTX-295's running, so I was testing its CUDA ability
- There is no such word as "can't" -
- 60% of the time it works every time -
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I'm toying with building one of these for HD editing, maybe late summer.
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MAKE IT GO AWAY!!! I stopped beating on processors to get into lasers; the wallet... and boss would not allow both...I might want to start watercooling... or worse, the lasers.
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Originally Posted by allthatwhichis
MAKE IT GO AWAY!!! I stopped beating on processors to get into lasers; the wallet... and boss would not allow both...
Do not look at the following photo, it may be the coolest man toy ever created.
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If you have $200 burning in your pocket and have not yet invested in an SSD... well, that's where your money should go. There's no other single upgrade that improves speed more than going solid state. Problem is, once you've tried SSD you can never go back to hard drives.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&feature=fvw
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I'll wait until wear leveling and limited write problems are taken care of before I go dump cash into an SSD. Until then I think my 10,000 and 15,000 rpm SCSI drives will suffice
My comp is getting old, running an Athlon64 X2 6000+ with an 8600GTS (replacement for my 7900gt that died) but haven't pushed myself to justify a new build yet.
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