i5 processors OcUK Stock Available ?

rxmac · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:48

Jason_AJB said:
Set my alarm for 11.55pm hoping some pricing will be on around then or before . Can't wait for some reviews.

Might be wasting your time... but i may well be checking myself around midnight.

MSI has a ludicrous launch offer for tomorrow (Tuesday the 8th September), with 55 per cent off the price of its premium Intel P55 motherboards. It's first come, first serve on a single batch though, so get in quick if you're after one.

Get your fingers on F5 from 2pm (14:00 BST) and is limited to one board per customer from (competitors) and Overclockers.

manic111 · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:00

Seen the 750 going for £171 on an English retailer's website...still holding out hope that OcUK can pull off some sort of magical bundle deal though

Tolmekian · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:04

rxmac said:
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Saw the bit about the release being at 2pm in another thread, bummer, going to be so much competition.

fross · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:16

I read on another thread here that the MSI boards don't clock well - OcUK isn't using them in their bundles for that reason? So you wouldn't be able to take advantage of the boards offer as well as a bundle.

Personally I'm waiting for some good benchies, but the prices so far, especially the motherboards, are encouraging compared to i7.

thebandit · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:22

I just can't believe we are this close to the launch and there are no real concrete leaks on pricing of the CPU's and M/B's and no benchies comparing i5 to AMD. I mean, what's the world coming to when NDA's hold and aren't broken willy nilly ?

Wishy · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:35

thebandit said:
I just can't believe we are this close to the launch and there are no real concrete leaks on pricing of the CPU's and M/B's and no benchies comparing i5 to AMD. I mean, what's the world coming to when NDA's hold and aren't broken willy nilly ?

From the leaks performance of the i5 750 is very very similar to the i7 920 for anything that doesn't benefit from hyperthreading or require obscene amounts of memory bandwidth (So anything but video rendering, server workloads, etc)

I am very much looking forward to release and have a new system planned.

starfury6 · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:05

They changed the category back to just i7

thebandit · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:10

haha, i5 launch is off, last minute recall, TLB errata.....

Ultim8 · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:10

Guys for info just got the following without trying too hard.

I7 860
MSI P55-GD80

4.2Ghz on air

Tom|Nbk · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:45

Ultim8 said:
Guys for info just got the following without trying too hard.

I7 860
MSI P55-GD80

4.2Ghz on air

Git, how much was the I7. NM found them, not spending that much

rxmac · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:51

manic111 said:
Seen the 750 going for £171 on an English retailer's website...still holding out hope that OcUK can pull off some sort of magical bundle deal though

If thats the case i might consider going i7 instead, the 920 is only £30 more and get the MSI x58m at £130 which is supposed to be good for the money, i'll only run dual channel for a time as i already have the memory but i can upgrade that at a later date to triple.

Ultim8 · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:03

rxmac said:
If thats the case i might consider going i7 instead, the 920 is only £30 more and get the MSI x58m at £130 which is supposed to be good for the money, i'll only run dual channel for a time as i already have the memory but i can upgrade that at a later date to triple.

Just make sure your memory is the low voltage stuff, I7 and I5 need sub 1.65v's unless you know what your doing and dont mind frying the cpu

starfury6 · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:04

I have seen it today for £159 although doesn't appear in their search on their site yet, it appears in a google search for this particular etailer :-)

Continues his patient wait for ocuk preorders.....

lettuce · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:09

starfury6 said:
I have seen it today for £159 although doesn't appear in their search on their site yet, it appears in a google search for this particular etailer

Continues his patient wait for ocuk preorders.....

I was hopping for around the £140 mark, this is going to have to work out around £100-150 cheaper going 1156 than 1366 for me to consider it, otherwise i7 920 system here I come!

starfury6 · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:13

Really? Despite previews looking like it will be almost the same perf in most operations? From the ones I have seen only rendering/processing etc makes i7 the better chip.

manic111 · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:15

lettuce said:
I was hopping for around the £140 mark, this is going to have to work out around £100-150 cheaper going 1156 than 1366 for me to consider it, otherwise i7 920 system here I come!

It's going to have to be no more than £30 more expensive than a PII 955 system for me to go with it...

_SBradley_ · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:18

I'm also erring on the i7-9xx side. It all depends on the chip prices I see tomorrow!

starfury6 said:
From the ones I have seen only rendering/processing etc makes i7 the better chip.

My main high-CPU activity is RAW file rendering. My current PC takes 20-30 seconds to render a single 20-MiB RAW file, which is quite annoying when I'm, for example, trying to decide which of 10 similar shots to keep!

starfury6 · 7 Sep 2009 at 15:20

Fair enough, I dont do much RAW image processing so its not much of a benefit for me. Mine is mainly gaming with a very little video rendering.

Wishy · 7 Sep 2009 at 16:07

_SBradley_ said:
I'm also erring on the i7-9xx side. It all depends on the chip prices I see tomorrow!

My main high-CPU activity is RAW file rendering. My current PC takes 20-30 seconds to render a single 20-MiB RAW file, which is quite annoying when I'm, for example, trying to decide which of 10 similar shots to keep!

I'm not entirely sure how multithreaded camera raw is. I've certainly not noticed CS3 being *very* multithreaded with Bridge / ACR on my Core2Duo (6300, 1.86ghz - its due to go)

PermaBanned · 7 Sep 2009 at 16:11

I'll probably get the motherboard now, then perhaps one of those 32nm 2 Core 4 Thread processors due out soon. Memory used probably.