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how nice is the i7

paradisiac

paradisiac

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built my system this evening, and i must admit i was a bit sceptical as to whether i would notice a difference over my Q8300, but i just copied about 20mins of video off our camera and wow has this made a difference in encoding it. soooo glad i made the upgrade.
 
Gaming wise there's not a lot of difference it's the media and windows tasks where the i7 really shines as you can see, which is ideal for me as im always fiddling with video and ripping/encoding stuff.

Shame it can't make use of my 5970 though. :D
 
yeah, i dont do a lot of editing or anything, but occasionally its nice to do some so hopfully it will be as good at encoding edited stuff as just encoding a straight copy.
you mention windows tasks, like what exactly?
 
not at the pc right now, but being on all night doing memtest and then doing (and failing) a windows experience test its max core was 64deg
 
hux said:
Gaming wise there's not a lot of difference it's the media and windows tasks where the i7 really shines as you can see, which is ideal for me as im always fiddling with video and ripping/encoding stuff.

Shame it can't make use of my 5970 though. :D
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I found a nice jump in gaming performance with my i7 at 3.8 compared to my Q6600 @ 3.2 and my system feels much better for it.

Although my Q6600 was no slouch!
 
I had a q6600 at 3.8ghz, a q9550 at 3.8ghz and now on an i7 at 4ghz. Gaming wise ive not noticed much difference tbh, though encoding with the i7 is a bit quicker.
 
Would the i7 be better than an i5 at running multiple games like I usually 4 or 5 box worlds of warcraft using 2 computers atm. If I got an i7 or i5 i would hope I could run all 5 on a single box but dunno if the i7 would make this easier ?

Thanks
 
moleh said:
Would the i7 be better than an i5 at running multiple games like I usually 4 or 5 box worlds of warcraft using 2 computers atm. If I got an i7 or i5 i would hope I could run all 5 on a single box but dunno if the i7 would make this easier ?

Thanks
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id also be very interested in an answer to this.

i currently multibox 4 copies of warcraft on one pc. (q8200/4gb ram/gtx275) and am looking at either an i5 or an i7, the price of the i5 is very attractive! but would the i7 be more suited?
 
I came from an AMD 6000+ X2 to the i920, and it gave me a considerable increase in performance in pretty much everything I do with my PC.

Encoding video is where I saw the largest improvements though.
 
paradisiac said:
depends on the situation i would think.
also bear in mind 99% of users that upgrade to the i7 will also being going from ddr2 to ddr3 so in sure that will make a difference too.
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I'm using DSP/CPU intensive apps like Logic Studio and Ableton, which do not need a lot of mem bandwidth AFAIK.

I guess for me going to i7 would give very little benefit?
 
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