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Going from a i7 920 to a???, for encoding and gaming?

lettuce

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I currently have a i7 920 Do Stepping 2.66 CPU that is OC to 4Ghz, and was wondering what current CPU would be a nice boost to decrease my video encoding times i also play games on the PC. Would a i5 3570K 3.40GHz be a good shout or would i7 3770K chip be better suited (at £100 more than the i5?)?.....or is the new haswell chip going to bring any more performance increase, when is Haswell out by the way?
 
No real need to upgrade from an i7 920 at 4.0Ghz, any performance increases will be small compared to the cost of upgrading.

It really would be worth waiting a couple of months for Haswell and see what that brings.
 
I don't think Haswell will be much of an upgrade either.

You really need to be looking at an i7 3930k on X79 for a big increase in speed for video encoding. Unfortunately its also quite expensive.

Since intel launched your i7 920 intel has/will launch Sandy bridge, Ivy bridge, Haswell which offer only small increases in CPU performance but concentrate more on increases with integrated graphics instead.
 
lettuce said:
I currently have a i7 920 Do Stepping 2.66 CPU that is OC to 4Ghz, and was wondering what current CPU would be a nice boost to decrease my video encoding times i also play games on the PC. Would a i5 3570K 3.40GHz be a good shout or would i7 3770K chip be better suited (at £100 more than the i5?)?.....or is the new haswell chip going to bring any more performance increase, when is Haswell out by the way?
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By the sounds of it you may be in the same position as me. I always keep my PC up to date with the latest components for gaming, and because I use it every day for my work day in day out (Computer Science PhD Student). I love my PC :). I my 920 D0 stepping CPU in I believe around 2008/2009/ Since then it's had 3 new graphics cards, a new SSD, two new hard drives, a new motherboard, a new case, yet again another new case, new memory, a new CPU cooler, but the CPU has remained the same. I keep coming back to OcUK thinking surely it's about time that can be upgraded. Every time,... no,.. it's not really worth it! These CPUs seem to have lasted a life time and seem like they were fantastic value for money.
 
One thing to think about is his current i7 920 is clocked @4GHz whereas an ivy will generaly clock to 4.4/4.6 and with slightly better ipc aswell maybe it is worth it for encoding?

Personally im on an i7 920@4HZ aswell but im waiting to what haswell bring to the table.
 
wazza300 said:
the 3770k would be my choice,the 3570k isnt much better than your 920,8 threads vs 4 threads
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Agreed tbh, dont switch a 4ghz i7 920 for a 3570k. I done it, in some games, (bf3) it;s actually a slight drop in performance. Bf3 likes cores, wether virtual or physical.
 
On a i7 920 myself and holding out for something worth while to upgrade to, but if a 980x comes along at a good price then im ready to grab it quick
 
I'm also waiting for haswell before making an upgrade decision on my 920. Motherboard features aside I don't see anything really worth upgrading for at the moment.
 
old gamer said:
On a i7 920 myself and holding out for something worth while to upgrade to, but if a 980x comes along at a good price then im ready to grab it quick
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I have both a i7 9xx quad core and a 980x. I have no intention of getting rid of either, they are both still very fast and for gaming are just as quick as my SB-E hexcores.

If you can find a 980x they are still very special. I was messing around with mine a while ago putting 3 sticks of quad channel memory in the system to see how high I could push the IMC and got into windows @2374mhz on the memory. Mine also o/clocks on the CPU really well and can hit 4.6ghz using a crappy H70 cooler. Unfortunately at that speed things can get a bit toasty so in the near future I will be puting a proper watercooled loop on it.

Long live the i7 9xx series.
 
Stick with the i7 9XX. I just imported a 980 from the US for around £300 - that would be your most cost effective upgrade at the moment - I seem to recall that the triple channel memory is faster on the i7 9XX than the dual channel memory of the 2600K, and likely the 3770K. As you'll no doubt appreciate - memory (quantity and speed) is hugely influential in video/audio encoding. Snap up 24Gb of ram and overclock the dogs danglies off it :)
 
YarwoodUK said:
Went from the 920 @ 4.5GHz to an i7 3820. Wasn't the best upgrade tbh. I'd keep saving and wait to see what comes out.
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I'd say the opposite. I've now got 32GB of RAM rather than 12GB, and my clockspeed has jumped from 4GHz to 5GHz.

I much prefer my 3820 rig to my old 920 rig.
 
I'm amazed (and quite thrilled) that the i7 920 is still so highly regarded :)

It must be what, four yrs old now?

Mine's clocked at 3.8Ghz, I wonder if I could push it over 4Ghz?
 
Gudgey said:
I'm amazed (and quite thrilled) that the i7 920 is still so highly regarded :)

It must be what, four yrs old now?

Mine's clocked at 3.8Ghz, I wonder if I could push it over 4Ghz?
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You should be able to with some decent cooling. This chips are very durable.
 
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