would march/april be a bad time to buy a computer?

Probably depends how impatient you are. There's always something better around the corner.

When Ivy Bridge comes out, Sandy Bridge will drop in price significantly. That's probably the best time to buy a Sandy Bridge system, but the worst time to buy Ive Bridge.

Being on the cutting edge of hardware proves very expensive.
 
Tbh, is their ever a good time to buy components for a build. I came pretty late to i7 x58, 18 months ago, i thought about sandybridge, yes it clocks higher, but as i primarily game, (competitively) i stuck with my i7 920 rig, dual/tri sli/xfire depending on mobo. Im very happy with what i have, gpu's clocked nice and high helps as well.
 
^ Every now and again a brilliant one comes out mate, but it's rare. I think a 980X on release day was one of the best deals Intel have ever offered, but only if you benefit from more than four cores but don't want a dual cpu board. Sadly I couldn't afford it.

i7 920 is going to be a beast for quite a while yet.
 
Imho mate, the best intel chip ever was the 65nm q6600, ive only got into pc's lately. My own 6600 was fantastic, 3.8ghz with ease in a p5q deluxe, my current i7 has been a bit of a git lately, needs a lot of voltage to run 20 x 200, 1.325 qpi and slackened ram timings
 
JonJ678 said:
Probably depends how impatient you are. There's always something better around the corner.

When Ivy Bridge comes out, Sandy Bridge will drop in price significantly. That's probably the best time to buy a Sandy Bridge system, but the worst time to buy Ive Bridge.

Being on the cutting edge of hardware proves very expensive.
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Ivy Bridge isn't out until the end of the year.
 
The Q6600 was also hard as nails, there's some knocking about that have been on 1.6V since release. Epic chip. With all the reports of sandy bridge being fragile, and so few of 920's dying, I hope the 920 D0 will last as long with the same reputation of being unkillable. Hopelessly optimistic perhaps.

That's probably true. Each new generation is associated with the previous one becoming cheaper though, and new releases carry a significant premium upon release too. So if you're willing to be one step behind, you can spend far less money. In the case of setter and I it's possible we'll be many steps behind by the time we upgrade, and we both came into X58 late enough in the game for the prices to have dropped somewhat.
 
My q6600 was ran at 3.8ghz daily, swapped it for a q9550, yes it was a silly change, but i wanted to try a 45nm quad. I only moved to an i7 rig as it offered better multi gpu support, ive had sli 8800gt's, gtx 275's and currently running sli gtx 470's, run theese at stock voltage at 750mhz core, (factory setting is 630mhz). For my main needs, the i7 at 4ghz is overkill, but i had a lot of issues getting the cpu stable at that speed.
 
I think we've all made silly changes occasionally. I went from a 4ghz e8400 to a 3.8ghz q9550 and saw much of my day to day activities slow down. Changed a P35 board for a P45 board and saw no improvement whatsoever. I'm now running 1600mhz ram at 1200mhz. Live and learn, or so I hope :)
 
Yep, had to knock my ocz reaper from 7-7-7-24 to 9-9-9-27, and up vcore to 1.29375 to get this cpu stable, used to run 21x193 on 1.2750v. Gpu's are worse again, theyll do 750mhz core clocks on stock volts o 0.987, tested them with a lot of benchmarks at 800mhz core on 1.012, ran fine for days, got a crash in the heaven bench.
 
Are you still running 12gb in your x58 board mate? Iirc you were doing a lot of testing with 12gb on an oc'd i7.
 
You'll be waiting forever, don't bother. There's always something better in the distance, only worth waiting if something revolutionary is coming out next month.
 
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