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Who's still on i7 ?

AndyOcUK said:
Yep....with you all the way, my fellow brother in the ways of silicon abuse :D

Seeing loads of people over the last couple of years or so with 965EE, 980X and 990X running at 4GHz......

WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT!!!!???!!! Pretty much any 920 DO chip will do 4GHz all day long at not much over stock volts on a sub £30 air cooler! :D

If you have an EE chip.......it shouldn't have been sold to you unless you solemnly swore on purchase to completely abuse it for every waking second of it's miserably short life! :D This is what they a for. IMHO, not adhering to this is tantamount to buying a Bugatti Veyron and only driving it to Tesco's once a week at 20MPH :D

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...389-IN&tool=3&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1272
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Sadly I have 4 times the amount of ram as both you guys (you and kitfit1) which makes overclocking much harder, not to mention I don't use ln2 like it appears kitfit does. I have a weasly little Corsair H5O, so can only do 4.6ghz on mine. I just leave it lower unless I want to run a quick bench.
 
Still running my main gaming PC with i7 920 at stock. Have no reason to change or overclock either.

2nd gaming PC still rocking the good old Q6600, not overclocked. Not changing that too, all the games run fine on both of them.
 
Still running an I920@4Ghz from an OC bundle and now 12Gb.

The only upgrade route without losing out on functionality is an X79 system, so theres no point in spending so much for so little gain even after 3 years.

My only downside/worry with my current set up is that because of the Gigabyte board layout my 580 GTX's are in slots next to each other and so get a little warm. Still, they survived the summer so it's a niggle.

If Ivy Bridge had 2 PCI-E 16 lanes, able to have more than 8Gb without risk of OC, and there were games/apps that needed it i'd move. Otherwise it's going to be at least another year before I think about changing.
 
LEUVEN said:
Whilst 1366 i7's are still fantastic CPU's, with a good few years still left in them, I wouldn't be spending £250 on a motherboard for one IMO. :confused:

Why not ? The G1 assassin was £450 at launch, and is a cracking board.

That could be used to buy a SB i7, and with the money gained from selling the old i7 CPU and RAM you could put that towards a motherboard for the SB i7 and RAM.

980X for SB ? Downwards move IMHO

For gaming and web browsing you could have got an i5 instead and have greater performance and overclocking for less money too. Bit of a strange decision TBH. :confused:


980X for i5 ? No way :rolleyes:
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MANFACE said:
Still a cracking chip IMHO.

Was thinking of upgrading - I mainly game, web browsing - So, instead of upgrading I did some maintenance. Got a new Gigabyte G1 Assassin X58 board for £250 - They were £450 - and upgraded my memory from 6GB to 12GB, but I might get 24GB, plus a new M4 256GB SSD.

Intel made a very solid chip.

Originally Posted by MANFACE

Why not ? The G1 assassin was £450 at launch, and is a cracking board.
So because it was £450 at launch that makes it worth spending £250 on?
If you mainly game and browse the web then no, it's a waste.

980X for SB ? Downwards move IMHO

For gaming and web browsing. YES
Add to the lower heat and power consumption.

980X for i5 ? No way :rolleyes:
For gaming and web browsing as you said that's what you mainly do then yes the i5 is better as I said above.
You've also got 12GB of RAM now instead of 6GB and you're thinking of getting 24GB for gaming and web browsing. Do you not see where you are wasting money. Yet I'm getting the :rolleyes:
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JUST UPgraded for my old q6600 to an i7 920 with a asus rampage extreme II mobo cost me £200 for the pair im clocked to 3.8 stable
 
gavsta1981 said:
JUST UPgraded for my old q6600 to an i7 920 with a asus rampage extreme II mobo cost me £200 for the pair im clocked to 3.8 stable
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Same board as mine mate. In my opinion the best X58 board. Had a 920 D0 on it at 4.2GHz, 965EE at 4GHz, 970 (Gulftown) at 4.8GHz and now my 990X at 5GHz. The Rampage has been bombproof throughout and I've got if fully watercooled.

REALLY can't see me upgrading for a good while to be honest. :)

Congrats on your COMPLETE AND UTTER BARGAIN by the way!! :)
 
Great bargains to be had on 1366 kit. I recently picked up an i7 930, 6gb of ram and an Asus P6 X58DE for £200.00. The board, cpu and ram in my sig alone cost over £500.00 a few years ago. You can put together a very powerful rig for little outlay.

My bargain 2nd rig.
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I know it's well over a year since I posted this, but after reading threads on intel chips, Haswell, ivy-bridge etc..etc... I'm not interested in thermal or power, especially for a desktop.

It seems intel are moving towards mobile devices - Just bought an ivy-bridge laptop and it's great - So, I'll be sticking with my i7, and possibly in the future move towards an AMD chip.
 
Nice to see so many 920 owner's, been running mine at 4.2ghz more or less from day one, just fine tuned the Bios setting's over time. Added a custom h2o loop keep's the 920 and GPU nice and cool. LoL they said this CPU run's hot when overclocked, just look at the Haswell.

This CPU has to be in the top 10 of classic chips, value, overclocking, longevity and it still kick's butt.
 
920 @4.1ghz here for ever lol since 2009 :D
have had no need to upgrade at all, im skipping haswell ;) im guessing the next line up of cpus from intel are going to be much colder chips..
and if there not by that time there will be haswell 6core chips or even 8 core chips that i will buy when the price plummets :D
 
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