A moment of Clarity or Dispair?

dr. sarf

dr. sarf

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I only built my rig (in sig) just over a month ago and how happy I am with it.
Yet I have just finished listing my CPU/Cooler/Mobo to be sold. :eek:

Am I short for cash? Not that short! In fact I am, hang on, this is hard to type, if I say it fast, it might not hurt so much;

Gonna buy Intel!

Eeek! OK, this may not be a big deal for most people on here, for me it's 8 years of never putting an Intel rig together for myself. Eight years of always being with AMD.

Easyrider - if you're reading this. Bog off. :p (personal joke)

So, depeneding on how much money I can rake together, I'll be buying an E6750 and getting on with an overclock. Obviously a new SLI board too for my 8800Gts. Gotta squeeze that into a £200 total budget I reckon.

So, I'm left feeling guilty and unsure whether it's clarity or dispair. :(
 
dr. sarf said:
I only built my rig (in sig) just over a month ago and how happy I am with it.
Yet I have just finished listing my CPU/Cooler/Mobo to be sold. :eek:

Am I short for cash? Not that short! In fact I am, hang on, this is hard to type, if I say it fast, it might not hurt so much;

Gonna buy Intel!

Eeek! OK, this may not be a big deal for most people on here, for me it's 8 years of never putting an Intel rig together for myself. Eight years of always being with AMD.

So, depeneding on how much money I can rake together, I'll be buying an E6750 and getting on with an overclock. Obviously a new SLI board too for my 8800Gts. Gotta squeeze that into a £200 total budget I reckon.

So, I'm left feeling guilty and unsure whether it's clarity or dispair. :(
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The Intel Inquisitor has finally caught up with you Dr Sarf.


Your confession of resistance has been accepted.


Behold !True Clarity has been restored to the unbeliever .


You have resisted the Intel force for far to long.


Out of the darkness in to the light.


Welcome
 
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OK, up for sale is my mainboard,CPU, Arctic Freezer Pro and 4GB Ballistix PC5300 Tracer RAM. :(

Swapping out for E6750, new board (if you can recommend a good OC board for around £80 - must be SLI? And changing the ram down to 3GB of PC6400.

Your thoughts on the new setup compared to the "old" one?
 
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Your choice to move to Intel tbh, I'd have just waited till the AMD quads came down to their real value and tried one of those out. Sure the Intel will be a good performance boost, but not sure how noticeable it will be, you're AMD isn't as slow as people like to think...

Out of interest, why are you moving from 4gb to 3gb?
 
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Your choice to move to Intel tbh, I'd have just waited till the AMD quads came down to their real value and tried one of those out. Sure the Intel will be a good performance boost, but not sure how noticeable it will be, you're AMD isn't as slow as people like to think...

Out of interest, why are you moving from 4gb to 3gb?
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Budget mainly - rather have 3GB and spend a little more on the mobo to begin with. Can always pop in another GB in a month or so.
I was toying with going with Intel pre-build with my system. I mean, all the benchmarks favour Intel over AMD what with their OC ability.
Also, the new mobo will be quad ready if I want to then upgrade to an intel quad next year.
 
No it isn't slow. Maybe I'm power hungry. :confused:
But I can clearly get a noticable gaming boost by swapping out as described.
Crysis and other upcoming nextgen games for instance.
General office applications its fine but I get more and more into gaming everyday. :(
 
dr. sarf said:
Budget mainly - rather have 3GB and spend a little more on the mobo to begin with. Can always pop in another GB in a month or so.
I was toying with going with Intel pre-build with my system. I mean, all the benchmarks favour Intel over AMD what with their OC ability.
Also, the new mobo will be quad ready if I want to then upgrade to an intel quad next year.
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3GB not a good plan. Unless you go 2x1Gb, and 2x512Mb to reach 3GB, then your not going to be running in dual channel mode. And thats a performance hit.

If your going to be running 32bit windows stick with 2Gb memory, otherwise if your moving to 64bit Windows go straight to 4GB. Infact there are some pretty nicely priced 2x2GB memory sets now, which give 4GB in 2 sockets, so you can even upgrade to 8GB at a later date, without replacing any existing ram.
 
Isnt there an issue with the Nvidia board and the new Penryn processors? You have already said you 'need' SLI for your 8800GT's.. I believe that Nvidia's solution to this is to 'fix' the problem and release the update as the new 780i chipset. Of course this doesnt retrofix the issue for existing 680i based boards.

I guess it depends if you mind replacing the motherboard if you want to upgrade to Penryn next year, and its not impossible that a biosfix will appear at some point for 680i boards. Must be some Nvidia chipset guru on here who knows something :P
 
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