I have a brand new i7 920, should i use it or sell and get phenom II?

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

Associate
Joined
5 Apr 2008
Posts
1,526
I recently built an i7 rig with gtx 280 and 6gb ram. However it overclocked badly so i decided to sell it and buy another. That should arrive tomorrow.

I can sell that and my biostar and ram and buy phenom II and possibly have enough for another GTX 280 or i can keep my i7 as it is and try to overclock it to 4ghz.

I saw this review which makes my heart fall! http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/socket-am3-phenom,2148-10.html

What should i do?

I run at 1920 x 1200 and i do mainly games but some video editing.
 
engstrom0304 said:
I recently built an i7 rig with gtx 280 and 6gb ram. However it overclocked badly so i decided to sell it and buy another. That should arrive tomorrow.

I can sell that and my biostar and ram and buy phenom II and possibly have enough for another GTX 280 or i can keep my i7 as it is and try to overclock it to 4ghz.

I saw this review which makes my heart fall! http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/socket-am3-phenom,2148-10.html

What should i do?

I run at 1920 x 1200 and i do mainly games but some video editing.
Click to expand...

I've just gone for the i7. as i've seen some exellent reviews on it.
Not like the one u shown me. They must be lyin or something :D
I think there review is aload of rubbish

P.s. read what the guy says on there.
Quote- nice review... but....
strangely AMD is performing better than core i7 920!
what did I miss? in previous benchmark done by you guys showed AMD performing quite less than what I see in this benchmark! can anyone clear my confusion? please!

See full of cra* they are.
 
Last edited:
engstrom0304 said:
i belive that the more power graphics card you have the more the i7s performance shines through and a mere gtx 280 isnt enough to really let it shine.
Click to expand...

Oh right, so some kind of bottlneck maybe, i'm not sure ?.
I order the 295 chip to go with mine. hope it will be ok, nooo it will be great :) i hope lol
 
up2nogooduk said:
Oh right, so some kind of bottlneck maybe, i'm not sure ?.
I order the 295 chip to go with mine. hope it will be ok, nooo it will be great :) i hope lol
Click to expand...

Your buying one of the best graphics card on the market and one of the best cpu's and your worrying if it will be ok...lol.
 
Well my lil i7 920 and 285-gtx are doing just fine!
Loving the games at hi-res with all the effects on!

Really when you do a internet search you'll come up with loads of for's and loads of against's. Ignore 'em and go with ya choice!
 
Hmmm, can this be right?

I have spent the last couple of weeks researching these new processors online as I am planning my next build, which I should be starting in the next couple of weeks, and everywhere I have searched for reviews and comparisons have all shown the core i7 processor to beat everything else on the market right now in pratically every single test..

Infact I am fairly positive that I have read other reviews on Toms Hardware that show the i7 beats the PII processors at practically everything...

I noticed on the Synthetic benchmarks page of the review above, they say something about the particular i7 was an engineering sample that was locked to DDR3-1066 speeds, but surely that wouldn't make that much of a difference???

Regardless of this review, I will still be building an i7 system in a few weeks time, it isn't just gaming I use my system for...
 
wow, i've just looked at that review and i did'nt realise how dramatic the difference would be. I could'nt imagine that even the am2 would out perform the new am3 or the i7, its like wtf? lol. That's one of the most reputable review sites on the net though and i can't imagine tomshardware falsifying their test results. All that i can think is that they have set their test bed up wrong but thats unlikely. Certainly makes me think about changing from intel to AM3, and i would do if i had'nt got one of the E8500's already, for gaming that is (but don't forget that intel usually outperform amd on a general level rather than in one speciallised area)
 
engstrom0304 said:
yes it seems my gtx 280 has been bottlenecking the i7.

Would under clocking the i7 help?
Click to expand...
Wouldn't of thought so mate.
Maybe u have a dud chip. can't u send it back and say it's not right ?

OneTime said:
Your buying one of the best graphics card on the market and one of the best cpu's and your worrying if it will be ok...lol.
Click to expand...
Lol.. well i was kind of being funny ;) but you know how it is, you just hope everything goes smooth when it's all built :)

mythrandyr said:
wow, i've just looked at that review and i did'nt realise how dramatic the difference would be. I could'nt imagine that even the am2 would out perform the new am3 or the i7, its like wtf? lol. That's one of the most reputable review sites on the net though and i can't imagine tomshardware falsifying their test results. All that i can think is that they have set their test bed up wrong but thats unlikely. Certainly makes me think about changing from intel to AM3, and i would do if i had'nt got one of the E8500's already, for gaming that is (but don't forget that intel usually outperform amd on a general level rather than in one speciallised area)
Click to expand...
Maybe they had a dud chip. like one of the guys said on there, his confussed because the other review they did, showed the i7 beating the amd etc. odd
 
The game benchmarks aren't surprising - i7 ESs were shown to perform poorer than Core 2s in some games. The architecture just isn't optimised for gaming - it's designed for a server environment.
 
reflux said:
The game benchmarks aren't surprising - i7 ESs were shown to perform poorer than Core 2s in some games. The architecture just isn't optimised for gaming - it's designed for a server environment.
Click to expand...

At 1200x maybe, but not much in it. but at 1600x, 1900 x etc, the i7 starts To edge it.
But hopfuly there start making more and more game for quads :)
Wishful thinking.
 
mythrandyr said:
That's one of the most reputable review sites on the net though and i can't imagine tomshardware falsifying their test results.
Click to expand...
In ten years I've followed web more actively there has been at least few cases with let's say "less than objective reviews" on big sites and lot more times with notable inconsistensies in results.

And just look at those Nehalem's results between test with AA/FSAA disabled and enabled!
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/socket-am3-phenom,2148-10.html
Also this makes results rather curious:
Interestingly, the Phenom II X3 720 BE manages to sneak past the flagship X4 940 in a couple of situations, despite a 200 MHz disadvantage.
Less cores (one disabled) and to top of that they're running at lower speed but faster result?


Sure Nehalem wasn't designed to increase gaming performance and different cache system can make it slightly slower than Yorkfield in some games but it isn't that much slower in anything.
Different codes just like different CPUs best:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-phenom-ii-x4_7.html#sect0
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom