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The vista score is rubbish. It does not give consistent results and it really doesn't mean anything at all.
 
to be honest with you gurusan, i don't even like vista. It's just essential at the minute since i need the raid0 setup and i don't have a floppy drive to load XP raid drivers (and can't be bothered to mess around with Nlite).
 
rypt said:
MY E7200 at 3.9 scores 5.9 ... guess you should "upgrade" to id for the awesome Vista score :D
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screw vista lol. If it was'nt for raid, in all honesty, i would give vista a complete miss. would'nt mind trying windows 7 though with touch screen etc... seems to me that the vista score is just another way of trying to blag people (people like me :) ) into buying unneccesary system upgrades.
 
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in an way yeah, i am more concearned over the longevity of a processor rather than the price. I just don't want to find myself in a position where i have to buy a new processor in a years time cos i baked the last one due to my own stupidity and i've never had a chip burn out on me, it would be a shame to start now. As i understood it though, or rather what i was told at OC, a majority of the games that were in the pipe line this year would be taking advantage of the multicore processors
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You should be concerned over longevity, but trust me, unless you go in all gung ho changing things randomly, you cannot cook a CPU in less than a year. If you spend just 30 minutes searching, you can learn what temperatures and voltages that the CPU can cope with, and that's all you really need to know. As long as you don't pump too high volts through, you cannot easily kill a processor.

Modern CPU's can stand very high temperatures, I believe up to about 80-100 degrees C before you can actually damage it, and 100 C on normal temperatures is impossible. On load, maybe, but your CPU will never run at 100% load all the time.

Look at the people currently overclocking their i7's. Some people are getting around 3.8GHz on 60 C at full load. This is a very nice overclock, yet still well below tolerable temperatures.

It is true that a lot of games will utilize multiple cores soon, but that's all the more reason to overclock. Instead of buying a new CPU now, overclock you current one, so it will last another year or two, and get a possibly better CPU for cheaper, later.

If you still don't want to overclock, then I'll go with what rypt said. Wolfdale C2D now, C2Q/i7 later.
 
don't bank on it at the minute i think this recession is going to get worse by the end of the year. $ to the £ is mad at the mo, i registered with a site on the internet a couple of months back now for $10, might as well have been £10 for the difference it made.

But then again prices in this country have always been mad. A part for my pc in this country, say a motherboard for $150 is more or less roughly the same in ££'s even when the exchange rate was at its best of what $2 to the £1.
 
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If you still don't want to overclock, then I'll go with what rypt said. Wolfdale C2D now, C2Q/i7 later.
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in all honesty i think that is going to be my main plan of attack, i'll probably just end up going straight for I7 by christmas/new year, but i'm still dissapointed with the range of processors that are currently availbale in the I7 range. I'm still interested in seeing what the I5's will be capable of doing though, i think intel might have made a mistake though on not making them 1366 socket compatible.
 
lol, it does identify which parts of the system are poop though, but only from one extreme to the other. would you like to own a system that rates a (1)2.3 vista index score? It certainly would'nt give you braggin rights lol (unless you could brag about owning the worst vista system ever seen by man :) if i remember right, even this crappy laptop that i have rates around 4.7).
 
Face it a "stock" system running a cpu at, for arguments sake, 3.2ghz wont be as quick as a "slower" based system overclocked to 3.2ghz as the whole lot will be running at a faster core speed (fsb) and thus everything will have a higher through put.

Mild overclocks, with no increase in voltage, put negligable extra strain on components. As mentioned overclocking may shorten overall life span slightly BUT it increases USEFULL lifespan.
 
Clum said:
you must be off you head mate! have you overclocked? my 8500 gets 5.9 in vista even at stock...
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Yeha my stock E8400 gets 5.9 on vista.

Tbh once games start going multicore big time a C2D would still be more than enough to work though for a few years...
 
For example:- A Q9550 @ 3.0GHz is identical to a Q9650 in terms of performance, which is all that matters.

edit - Play nice. Jedi
 
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i guess its true what they say,

"you're either part of the solution or part of the problem" so as far as i'm concearned happy, quit being part of the problem.

I can't be that much of an idiot to make comments about people like you have!!

you call me an idiot, you really should learn to keep comments like that to yourself as that is the true sign of idiocity.
 
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No.. I'm correct in what I'm saying, you my friend are on the wrong forum...

/Gerald Butler

THIS IS OVERCLOCKERS UK

/Gerald Bulter
 
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