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i7 vs C 2 Quad vs C 2 Duo Gaming.

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personally I am holding off on an upgrade. However the pricing of the 955BE is very nice and in terms of gaming its almost on par with the i7.

Only thing that puts me off is the AM3 chipsets atm. Only dual channel memory. With the prices of tri channel memory being cheap as it is, might as well go all the way. Limited to X-Fire so no SLI support if ATI crapped on there cards in future.

So when it comes down to upgrading some time next year for me if the chipsets are still the same for AM3 I think ill be going i7.

i5 chipsets is pretty much gonna be the same as AM3 x-fire only and only dual channel
 
I've just gone from a c2d system running an e8400, to an i7 system running a 965 extreme.
Now, I had my e8400 running 24/7 at. 3.8 ghz and I've got my 965 running stock speeds at 3.2.
The i7 system is a lot snappier at desktop, whilst browsing and, using crysis as a bench a lot smoother in game
I could run crysis on very high with 8x on my e8400 setup ok
I can now runit with every setting maxed
I7 IS A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE !
 
JonJ678 said:
i7 IS NOT A FINACIALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE
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i agree, should have held out on the caps and just capped financially :p at the moment the price on the boards put me off, the prices on the processors are fine, 200 for a 920 is a good price but its the need to also buy a mobo and also new ram altogether its not a good upgrade price wise unless your still running P4. I am sure they will come down in price slightly when C2Q's disappear which should happen some time next year probably more closer to 2011. That is when I will probably look into upgrading, but right now its not worth the price.
 
widdyst said:
Compared with what ? Let's say you where building a pc from scratch, how different is a good c2q system in price to a good i7 system ?
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if building from scratch, no point building a c2q might as well go i7 but upgrading from c2q to i7 is just more money than sense atm.

he was probably referring to your upgrade from e8400 system to i7, I think? but at the end of the day its your money and if you have it to spend why not.
If I had money to splash I would upgrade, theres definetly a decent increase but for me the increase isn't worth spending over 500 pounds when I would have to gather it up.
 
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Yurihyuga said:
Only thing that puts me off is the AM3 chipsets atm. Only dual channel memory. With the prices of tri channel memory being cheap as it is, might as well go all the way. Limited to X-Fire so no SLI support if ATI crapped on there cards in future.
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Since the 955BE has an unlocked multi, using an AM2+ board wouldn't hurt. That way you save abit reusing/buying cheaper DDR2. Also boards would be cheaper. Ive yet to find AM3 vs AM2+ benchmarks to see if theres any significant difference using an AM3 processr in each.
 
Yurihyuga said:
if building from scratch, no point building a c2q might as well go i7 but upgrading from c2q to i7 is just more money than sense atm.

he was probably referring to your upgrade from e8400 system to i7, I think? but at the end of the day its your money and if you have it to spend why not.
If I had money to splash I would upgrade, theres definetly a decent increase but for me the increase isn't worth spending over 500 pounds when I would have to gather it up.
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It isnt neccesarily a £500 upgrade mate.
I bought my i7 components used and after selling my C2D components on MM and a well known auction site my total outlay was £175. Not a bad price at all eh :)

So I add

i7 IS A FINANCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE :)
 
LOL the OLD Q6600 2.44GHz is still quite high in the Tom'shardware chart "cough,cough" do's me, but with a slight OC 3.2GHz..
 
'Wes said:
I'd go for a Core 2 Quad.
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I think thats the conclusion I have come to too.
I would suspect that many new games will utilise 4 cores.
I7 is great however I would have to change my full rig and I can't be bothered + they do seem to run hot overclocked?
 
if you can afford it get the i7 system. I'd have thought that a mildly tweaked 920 on x58 shouldn't bottle neck any of the next gen of cards and will llkely do a fair job with the one after.

Add to that if your needs change processing wise your'll all set. I'm not sure there's any more powerful c2p on the road map for s775.
 
widdyst said:
I've just gone from a c2d system running an e8400, to an i7 system running a 965 extreme.
Now, I had my e8400 running 24/7 at. 3.8 ghz and I've got my 965 running stock speeds at 3.2.
The i7 system is a lot snappier at desktop, whilst browsing and, using crysis as a bench a lot smoother in game
I could run crysis on very high with 8x on my e8400 setup ok
I can now runit with every setting maxed
I7 IS A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE !
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yeah but you do have a nice sli setup though, which is known to benefit from i7, so for an average user the difference probably isn't night and day.
 
I'm running Oblivion, Anno 1404 & Crysis simultaneously, and alt-tabbing between. Not for any great benefit. For the last 6 years I was running a Sempron 2800+ (why +? I don't know) with 4x 256mb RAM and a GeForce 4400 LE (I'm assuming Light Edition), so really I'm only doing it because I can.
 
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