i5 760 build or phenom ii 1055t build ??

Im not going to add anymore to this thread apart from one thing.

If you wanted crossfire with that AMD cpu spec?

then get a real motherboard that does it right, using a 890GX or 890FX chipset, that Fuzion thing is full of FAIL.
 
case- you want side window? a cooler master 430 has one for only £37.99 :)
just buy an air cooler(~£30) instead of a h70
 
i5 for the win! Perhaps I'm just becomming a massive i5 fanboi, but increasingly I'm struggling to bring myself to recommend an i7 even for people encoding etc. I mean it's only up to 25% faster in certain encoding type apps for ~60% more CPU cost, more RAM to buy, and a more expensive mobo. Just meh if you ask me. Unless your rendering/encoding time is money or you just really like paying for diminishing returns, I'd still go for an i5. As I said though - must be a fanboi :)

I'd rate the H50 a little higher than that. I do hit mid 80s during IBT max stress in a warm house with sides on etc at 4GHz, but my chip is a bit of a volt hungry beast needing almost 1.4V to get there. It gets worse for me after that in terms of volts required, but I could still run 4.2 if I didn't care about low 90s in IBT (or better yet didn't run IBT - games would be fine). And I haven't stuck a second fan on my H50 yet too.

Back to the OP, the real smart choice imho would be to wait and see how new Sandy Bridge benches and overclocks against current stuff. There will be new i5s and i7s that are faster clock-for-clock than current Nehalem ones and potentially overclock better too being 32nm. And they are supposed to be coming in at the same price point as outgoing current models. Worth waiting for.
 
yeah i think im going to wait but if they dont overclock as good and dont perfrom as well in games is there a good chance that the i5's and i7s will reduce in price ??
 
Get an Intel, mate.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...view-of-the-six-core-Gulftown/Reviews/?page=2

Reviews show that six cores are NOT utilized in games (except GTA IV, where speed increase is low, BTW), so still GHz count. Clock by clock Intel i5/i7 is quicker than AMD, so your 6 cores @ 2.8 GHz would act in games as Intel's 4 cores @ 2.4-2.5 GHz. Sometimes it looks like when you finish o/c AMD, Intel just starts, so it's no doubt which one should you choose, unless you want save some money :)
 
i am looking at the same cpu and was wondering whether the hyperthreading will make any difference in games like BFBC2 and SC2 and SupComm2?

And will i notice a difference going from 8gb of ram to 4gb in the new build?

Sorry to OP for hijacking but no point in starting new thread for small questions
 
carlazai: depends, assuming if your just gaming then you would see no difference really as 4gb is more than enough.

Beasty: I'm glad I built mine when I did in september, I'm happy and will skip the next gen of cpu's by adding a ssd and a new gfx (or 2nd gtx460) later. I'm glad I didn't start thinking about sandy bridge that's one pickle of a decision.
 
yeh i think im going to get a i5 760 then squeeze 4ghz out of it :D

do you rekon a h50 will give enough cooling for 4 ghz overclock ??
 
hmmmmm, it would do a good job to 3.8 or so. I have heard that the titan fenrir does a great job 4ghz+. But you have to be aware ram wise for clearance. I only planned for 3.6 on my h50, I just wanted a quiet solution really.

Basically if you go titan swap the dominators out for corsair xms3 1600mhz as its lower profile.
 
the frio is from, what i have heard, a very good cooler same sort of league as the gelid tranquilo and the titan fenrir evo.

i would stick with the corsair as i don't do major OC's, but someone else might be able to advise on this.
 
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