i7 selloffs

[wilders]

Just wondering why everyone seems to be selling their I7 setups?

Im a bit new to all this is there something new on the horizon?

 

[Nymins]

Moving to Sandybridge probably.

 

[setter]

Amd's bulldozer is due soon, and intel's sandybridge has got a lot of people changing. Personally sticking with my current setup for a while yet.

 

[d_brennen]

Years ago there were people selling off Pentium 4s and Athlon XPs too... Funny that

 

[phill1978]

if i7 goes cheap its a good buy imo. you can have enough power over clocked to not be fully used in almost any game, browser,music / movie program or OS (ok maybe some) but its very powerful

id save money and get a decent SSD instead

 

[Helios1234]

Can't see myself moving from my 920 either yet.

 

[OLDPHART]

Can't see myself moving from my 920 either yet.

Me to, still plenty life left in the 920's, if you have a good overclock 3.8MHz plus, still good for a couple of years yet. The only thing to upgrade is your GPU and maybe ram, got no worries about running BF3 see Sig at max.

 

[wilders]

hmm....cool, so might be a good time to upgrade then.....still running a E6600 with a gtx280, whichstill runs everything i do well, but bf3 is a biggy for me, so now might be my time to start looking.....

 

[twist3d0n3]

won't be ditching my x58 setup for a long time yet, no games are making it sweat at the moment, if anything i'll just upgrade gpu's every 2 generations until i notice the cpu start to struggle

 

[remy87]

2.5 years old my i7 920 @ 4ghz and still can't find anything that's making it struggle.
You gotta have some big load of cash to burn if you want to upgrade from i7.

 

[AgedIdiot]

You gotta have some big load of cash to burn if you want to upgrade from i7.

Not if you re-use what you can and sell the rest.

Would stress that I'm not recomending a change (be it upgrade/downgrade) just that it does not have to cost mega bucks

 

[setter]

Can't see myself moving from my 920 either yet.

Same here, actually bought a 930 for my second machine.

Me to, still plenty life left in the 920's, if you have a good overclock 3.8MHz plus, still good for a couple of years yet. The only thing to upgrade is your GPU and maybe ram, got no worries about running BF3 see Sig at max.

Yep, for bf3 were well covered on the cpu front, ill see how the 470's cope before i even consider a gpu upgrade.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

not chopping my my i7 - not when it clocks like this

 

[linktoinsanity]

Can't see myself moving from my 920 either yet.

This. Annoyingly my motherboard is playing up a little, hopefully will be fixed when I get round to replacing the CMOS battery, but I mean, wtf is that all about? I have never had to change a CMOS battery before in any of my PCs and all of a sudden after only 2 years this one appears to have gone flat.

(Power outage/psu off = forgotten settings, it is ok otherwise)

 

[setter]

I cant wait till i get a new cooler and start clocking the 930 i have, put the system together with second hand bits, an absolute bargain. If it's a good low voltage clocker, it might take over from my 920 in sig.

 

[koooowweeee]

Years ago there were people selling off Pentium 4s and Athlon XPs too... Funny that

Lol

 

[Ace Modder]

I moved from my i7 platform running at 4GHz to my 2500K sandybridge CPU running at 4.8GHz. The change included me going from tri-channel 6GB RAM to dual channel 8GB RAM.

Performance is better for games and general use, only thing its slightly slower on is video encoding.

I actually made £££ from selling my i7 gear and going sandybridge too

 

[Nemeses]

Naw I'm very happy with my i7 setup, nothing out there even uses my system anywhere near it capacity

 

[FatFishMonster]

how much are people selling off the i7's at ?

 

[Vir]

I'm not planning to sell my i7, I am wondering though how they will hold up in Battlefield 3, or how do you say, how they scale and compare to other CPU's....
I also wonder how my GTX480 will hold up in BF3...