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920 to sandybridge

Depends on what you do, but for general stuff and gaming, it's definitely not worth it, unless you want to go to a powerful ITX set-up.

Basically it's only worth it if you do loads of encoding, and then if you get the i7 2600K and clock the **** out of it. - then you might have a noticeable difference.
 
I went from i7 930 at 3.8 gig to sandy bridge at 4 gi and sandy bridge is noticeably faster but if its worth it or not depends on the rest of your system i guess and how much money you have.

If you want higher fps then a faster gfx card or multi gfx cards will give more performance but if you already have top flight card or cards and have the cash to spare then yes sandy bridge is faster.
 
Would have to agree. i7 920 to i5 2500K would be slightly faster but not worth the difference. If you use hyperthreading then the jump to i7 2600K would give you a noticeably quicker system but as to whether its worth the difference that's up to you. For gaming, money would be better spent on upgrading graphics card/going to a dual card setup.
 
what i tend to do is sell older bits to buy new and keeping fairly current means i have to find less money but keep up with the latest best stuff ( make sence to me anyway :rolleyes: ) .

im a gamer mainly , im running the i7 920 @4 ish i have 2 260gtx gpu's
p6t board and decent ocz memory

i just wondered if now was the time , jumped from an older quad core 955 amd think it was setup to intel last time and did cost me a bit as im sure your aware i had to buy everything new.

but if now theres no real benifit now ill keep my money :)

ill wait untill whatever comes along next , just thought my overclock to 4.6 as i think iv read might have been more than just the numbers if you get my drift
 
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no real benefit to jumping to sandybridge. Not if you're running a 4ghz 920. Spend your money on better graphics card.
 
I ran my i7 at 3.8 and when i swapped to sandy bridge id say my games gained around 10 fps with sandy bridge stock clocks so yes it is faster than a overclocked i7 but for the ops rig he would gain the most to spend his money on a gfx card as that would give him the best performance gain from where he is atm.
 
What games are best to show an in improvement? Bit disappointed with my move from an e8500 to a 2500k sitting at 3.6 at the moment. Benched mafia 2 for example and only gained 4 fps :( on an ati 6870 51-55fps !
 
I noticed gains in crysis and iracing as iracing the what i play the most and it does tax even top flight rigs when the settings are maxed and all shadows on.
 
Iracing is what i play the most and i got nice gains there and also on crysis here is anandtechs review http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/20 shows game performance.

What gains you would get will depend on your gfx card with just a single 6870 then no you wont see much if any gain but if you have fast sli or xfire cards that are sat there waiting for cpu info then you can gain 20 fps or more from a quicker cpu.
 
johny dolan said:
I went from i7 930 at 3.8 gig to sandy bridge at 4 gi and sandy bridge is noticeably faster but if its worth it or not depends on the rest of your system i guess and how much money you have.

If you want higher fps then a faster gfx card or multi gfx cards will give more performance but if you already have top flight card or cards and have the cash to spare then yes sandy bridge is faster.
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I find this hard to believe that its "noticeably" faster.....

Could you eloborate on where you are really noticing it?
 
If you dont believe me just read the anand review i just posted it clearly shows higher frame rates in games over the old i7 and beats out the 980 in many cases and id say the games i play have gained higher frame rates over my i7 930.
 
Very rarely are games CPU limited. More like GPU.

I'm interested in your comment Mr Dolan - so far I've not seen more than a 5% gain moving from i7 to sandybridge especially in games.

'noticing' a difference is different from providing proof - some benchies would prove your findings quite nicely.

I personally have to agree with the majority of answers so far - no point moving from i7 to SB just for a couple of FPS difference.
 
It is a lot faster i went from a 950i7 4.3Ghz to sandy bridge 2600k 5Ghz and its a lot faster evn on stock i found it better!
 
The games i play im seeing 10 fps more or so over my old i7 Zoome you can disbelieve me or not im not in court here im not trying to sell anyone anything.

The op asked i just past on my findings and also posted a review from anandtech that shows the same performance gains im seeing.
 
If you only run a single XFX 5850BE that's posted in your Sig im not surprised you see no gain if you look at my Sig im running 5970 + 5870 that's why i see the gain and you dont my cards need more cpu than your single card.
 
zoomee said:
Very rarely are games CPU limited. More like GPU.

I'm interested in your comment Mr Dolan - so far I've not seen more than a 5% gain moving from i7 to sandybridge especially in games.

'noticing' a difference is different from providing proof - some benchies would prove your findings quite nicely.

I personally have to agree with the majority of answers so far - no point moving from i7 to SB just for a couple of FPS difference.
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As others are pointing out...

I for one would not "notice" if I went from 90 > 100 FPS...

I am interested that you are "noticing" the diff from a near 4ghz I7 > Sandybridge.. Im assuming all other hardware kept the same..

What im asking is - where are you noticing these differences.... I am genuinely interested.. I would be also surprised but maybe I just have my rig more tweaked :D
 
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I would say it is worth it if you can get good money for your i7 920 and X58 motherboard.
If you consider the offset cost it could make sense.

I am considering similar i5 750 to Sandybridge.

You would have to advertise your X58 stuff at a silly price on a certain auction site and hope someone bites to make it worth while.
 
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