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*cough cough* has anyone got a 940? I think I am the only one with it.
I still got this baby in my old setup.
I still got this baby in my old setup.
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i7 920...who is still enjoying its awesomeness
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Asus P6TD deluxe 2 Mboard
6GB Corsair 1600 Memory
KFA2 GTX 580 Gcard
160 Intel M2 SSD
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A SSD is worth considering, l also upgraded my ram from 6GB to 12GB as 8GB is recommended these days.
My i7 920 D0 is coming up to it's fourth birthday in june. It's run @4GHz throughout it's life and survived the following GPU generations..
SLI GTX 275s -> SLI GTX470s -> SLI GTX 670s.
It's done even better than my previous E6600.
SLI GTX 275s -> SLI GTX470s -> SLI GTX 670s.
It's done even better than my previous E6600.
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Dian - looks solid for now. Maybe new gpu later in the year with more vram . Or bigger ssd.
depends on what you doing .
in some things its twice as fast. in games there can be a massive jump.
some will say oc but then you can oc the 3770 so it still remains close to twice as fast.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/551?vs=47
skyrim good indicator of cpu power in modern games 50 fps different !
wow a good cpu hog 45 fps difference. its not a bit in games its a big difference. also encoding in some is twice as fast.
think about it if you keep your cpu and spent say four hundred on a gpu you might get same kind of step up probably less and still have less fps and slower system. this is when its time to upgrade the cpu and mobo first.
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Not really a fair comparison at default clock speeds..
Thanks for the replies, I might save my money and see what the next generation of CPU & Gcards bring. I would like to try 3D gaming though so maybe another GTX 580 for SLI might be the best option if I want to go this route?
both at stock its still nearly twice as fast
you will oc both aswell so it still stands. a 3770k is a big boost over a 920 even a i3570k is a biggish boost in games if you play cpu dependent games. before those pop in say not much difference go play wow,skyrim,arma 2 its nearly double fps difference in some instances. you cant get that with the highest gpu upgrade.
at end of day it depends on what you do with your pc and if you use the extra power regular. if you dont then you might think its not worth it . if you do then it is.
no one is saying a 920 isnt great cpu it is but if you playing or doing cpu intense stuff regular new chips are quite a lot faster.
Both at stock there's almost a 1Ghz difference between the two.
A better compairison would be http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/551?vs=99 to reflect most people's OC at a modest level.
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The i7 9XX series CPU's are still perfectly fine for gaming, especially when overclocked. 50fps difference in Skyrim between a 920 at ~4Ghz and a 3770K at ~4.5Ghz, with the same graphics card? I'm not convinced. But if it is true I cant say I'm that worried about it. I've played Skyrim on my 920, and its very smooth. I'll be upgrading fairly soon, but I think if I wanted to I could quite easily squeeze a couple more good years of gaming out of this CPU.
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At stock comparison, there is close to 1GHz difference between i7 [email protected] and i7 [email protected] coupled with IPC improvements in 3770k. Plus the latter seems to be only twice as fast in some of the benches at stock. If 920 is overclocked to say 4.0-4.2Ghz & 3770k to 4.5Ghz (talking about most usual or average overclock), then the difference would decrease quite a bit.
You are right about new chips being faster but 920 overclocked is plenty strong.
edit: Also it's not just about cpus but rather the whole architectures should be taken into account when making comparison as the latter pretty much determine the performance improvement and cpu is just part of it. 775 vs 1155 is perfect example that comes to the mind
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Technically speaking the is a 1GHz difference in single threaded tests as i7's will use their turbo clocks under load unless the is a thermal issue (which the shouldn't be). The 920 has a turbo of 2.8GHz using 4/3/2 cores and 2.93Ghz 1 core, compared to the 3770K's turbo's of 3.7Ghz using 4 cores, 3.8GHz using 3 cores and 3.9GHz using 2/1 core
So assuming a benchmark test is loading all four cores the 3770K does have a 900MHz advantage but that extends to a whole 1GHz in single core loads.
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Thanks for further clarification. I forgot about the turbo boosts
it is true ! thats what im trying to tell you
skyrim , arma 2, arma 3, wow the fps will be double even with same card nearly.the 920 will still play modern games at exceptable frame rates though .
it is true ! thats what im trying to tell you
Source?
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Arma 2/3 double the frame rates lol have you read the BIS forums?
it is true ! thats what im trying to tell you
the 920 will still play modern games at exceptable frame rates though .
This sounds a bit dubious to me as Nehalem-SB was a smaller jump (clock for clock) than SB-IB, obviously with the 3770K clocked up the will be a difference, but its only reinstating the speed advantage the 3770K would have at stock, double the FPS sounds pretty impossible.
If a heavily overclocked 3770K is getting double the FPS of a heavily overclocked 920 then it should also be getting double the FPS of a stock 2600K.
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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/47?vs=551
Windows 8 - Skyrim
3770k ~28% faster than 920 at stock.
Windows 8 - Skyrim
3770k ~28% faster than 920 at stock.