Hows this???

he's saying that no games right now need the immense power of the GT300's, so a 4890 or 4870 will be fine.

People would get a gt300 for future proofing, but it's up to you.

I would stick with a 4870 for now, and in 6-10 months time, if you want a 58xx card, then by all means get one.
 
Minato said:
he's saying that no games right now need the immense power of the GT300's, so a 4890 or 4870 will be fine.

People would get a gt300 for future proofing, but it's up to you.

I would stick with a 4870 for now, and in 6-10 months time, if you want a 58xx card, then by all means get one.
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I seeeee, Well I wouldn't upgrade straight away anyway, It would be a good few months.

I think I'll take your origional spec for now, mainly just as I need/want a new rig, my main rig is really bad and I'm using my lappy for everything!
Which is hardly brilliant either. :S
 
So your buying a dead socket board but waiting for new series graphics cards to come out...

Makes sense </sarcasm> ;)

A 955 quad core and 4890 will last you 2-3 years easy, much better and cheaper but hey it's your money :)
 
shadowake said:
So your buying a dead socket board but waiting for new series graphics cards to come out...

Makes sense </sarcasm> ;)

A 955 quad core and 4890 will last you 2-3 years easy, much better and cheaper but hey it's your money :)
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Well spec me a rig then.

Also, I am going to upgrade everything aswell, I'd be buying a deadsocket board CPU etc... for now, and upgrade later down the line. I just want something to get started with.
 
Minato said:
I would personally agree with shadowake on this one mate.
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Oh, I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that I want something to get started with now and slowly upgrade as I go along :)

Might be better to get a Quad and a 4890, upgrade as I go along, I'm talking a good few years here though.
 
If I were you, i'd go with my 1st spec.

In a years time upgrade to core i5 (replacement for core i7), some ddr3 and a socket 1366 motherboard. 4-8 months later Sell your 4870 and get a 58xx.
 
Minato said:
If I were you, i'd go with my 1st spec.

In a years time upgrade to core i5 (replacement for core i7), some ddr3 and a socket 1366 motherboard. 4-8 months later Sell your 4870 and get a 58xx.
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That sounds like a good way to do things to me.

Any idea how the core i5 will fare when compared to the i7's?
More powerful? Less powerfull? I've heard that Intel are going to discontinue some of the i7's.
 
yeah, the i7 920 and 940's will be discontinued from september or so. core i5 will be around the same as them, but we're not 100% sure.
 
Minato said:
yeah, the i7 920 and 940's will be discontinued from september or so. core i5 will be around the same as them, but we're not 100% sure.
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I guess theres no way to know until they get benchmarked.

Still, even after Sep you'll still be able to buy i7's until they run out etc...

I'd love to get a 920 D0.

But if the i5's are as good then I'd just upgrade to one of those.
 
Just to clarify lads, the i5 is not a compatible upgrade from an i7. The i7 uses socket 1366 and X58 boards, the i5 uses socket 1156 and p55 board. Also, the i5 will be a bit less powerful and a bit cheaper compared to the i7.

The chip you may have been thinking of is the Gulftown. It is socket 1366 (like the i7) and is supposed to fit in standard X58 boards (likely after a BIOS update). The gulftown will be 32nm, 6 core and likely rather expensive (extreme edition exclusive it seems), but as a drop-in upgrade for the X58 board it sounds like a monster.
 
No point having six cores for gaming when most games dont use more than 2 ;) for CAD work maybe but pointless for the average Joe until games catch up.
 
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