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I3/I5/I7

See on there to me it shows there is nothing between them ok the 860 is stock 2.8 compared to the 920's 2.66gig so i would expect it to be faster but in the real world would a user notice any difference going from 920 to a 860.
 
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See on there to me it shows there is nothing between them ok the 860 is stock 2.8 compared to the 920's 2.66gig so i would expect it to be faster but in the real world would a user notice any difference going from 920 to a 860.
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Since you are not bothered about Crossfire a Core i7 860 based build would end up cheaper or have more RAM for a similar price,and have better stock performance in games and many other applications.
 
In the end i went for this setup common sense came in the end, i was unsure over the board though as the Asus i had been advised to get had gone out of stock but a chap posted a review over this board saying he got 4ghz easy so made sense.

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Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Intel P55 is also able to overclock i5 750 to 4GHz, has 2xUSB3.0 and 2xSATA 6Gb/s and would have costed £45 less than the UD4.

Well, at least you got 2x eSATA 3Gb/s and 3x IEEE 1394a as extra. Hope they would be of some use to you.
 
Probably not lol but I got them I guess, I don't mind the extra but I guess I could have saved that mone.
 
If your UD4 can do symmetrical Crossfire and SLI at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X instead of the usual crappy 16X/4X (meaning the 2nd graphic card in xfire/SLI won't work properly) for most 1156 sockeys board, it would be a big plus.

Edited: Just found out the UD4 would run the 2nd PCIE X16 at 8 lanes instead of 4! So you would be able to use xfire/sli on this board.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rboard&ProductID=3239&ProductName=GA-P55A-UD4

I know you said you are not interested in xfire, but since you paid the extra already, extra feature is always a good thing :D

Although you are not thinking about xfire NOW, but you might want to get another 5850 to xfire with your existing one if future games get more demanding XD
 
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Great find i only went for the ud4 as i had been reading some reports of people having issues with the UD3 and when i read that review of someone buying it on this forum and hitting 4 gig on stock volts i thought maybe i get lucky.

But yeah i will deffo look into that would running 2x8 with say 2 5850's give me a good performance boost over 1 card at 16.
 
Done a bit of messing and got it up to 4 gig need to do some proper testing yet though, and more research but so far no problem at all.
 
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