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i7 - Which should I go for?

Hydrogoo

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I'm planning on building a new PC in about 8 weeks time, and prior to the new 1155 socket CPUs I was planning on getting an i7 950. Are there any benefits of the new i7 cpus with the P67/H67 chipsets or should I still get the i7 950 and overclock it on the x58 chipset?
 
What is the justification behind that? Why is the P67 chipset best? Sorry if I'm appearing anal over this, I just want to make sure I'm getting most bang for buck when I put this together, ie. this pc is gonna last me until I stop gaming/get divorced, whichever comes first, lol!

Ps. I've noticed the new i7 only supports dual-channel DDR3, where the older i7 950 is tri-channel, does this affect performance any?
 
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if your only gaming get yourself the 2500k as youll be paying for hyper threading on i7 which is better for encoding and you wont notice any difference with dual channel ram
 
Performance will hardly be affected (but depends a bit on what you do).

If you game, go sandy bridge.

If you work with media, e.g. video editing, rendering etc then you'll probably want to stick with 1366 i7s (six cores, hyperthreading).
 
2600K all the way
They are massivly overclockable as i said on the other post you have about the cards

as i also stated you have to be aware (i cant remember wich board it was weather it was 1155 or 1156) that had/has trouble with the USB 3 and the pci-e lanes etc someone else will know on the forum

I have seen that people have OC this processor to 5.5gig woot I cant get past 4.2 on my i7 970 with watercooling and it still runs warm lol

Good luck with whatever you choose and i would love to see some photo's when done
 
Hydrogoo said:
What is the justification behind that? Why is the P67 chipset best? Sorry if I'm appearing anal over this, I just want to make sure I'm getting most bang for buck when I put this together, ie. this pc is gonna last me until I stop gaming/get divorced, whichever comes first, lol!

Ps. I've noticed the new i7 only supports dual-channel DDR3, where the older i7 950 is tri-channel, does this affect performance any?
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if you had looked at a sandybridge review you would know why it is being offered. Both the i5 and i7 sandybridge 'k' series cpu's match and beat occasionally, an i7 980x:D................enough justification for you lol. Even in dedicated 6 core work the sandybridge 4 cores are only just behind.

Sandybridge cpu's perform so well on dual channel that the difference between triple channel is not a lot. Thermally, they are way cooler than socket 1366 i7's and cheaper to boot.

Again, i would recommend looking at a sandybridge review like this

Convinced yet;)
 
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Cheers therutz, I should stop being such a hardware whore then. i5 2500k it is for me then. I'll just give it a shove into the 4Ghz mark with some OC goodness. Should be able to hit 4Ghz on air?
 
If i could id sell my cpu and board and ram and get a SB i7 2600k and get it to 5 gig but i paid to much for my cpu and would loose so much money and my i7 still rocks so im happy enough

The i5 (k version for massive overclocks) is awsome choice as well,
I do a lot of vid converting and crunching so need the HT and 2 extra cores of the 970 1136 cpu and 4.2 is a good OC 24/7
 
Mine will be purely gaming, I'll post the spec of what I'm going to build shortly, and see if there are any mistakes I'm making in my hardware selection.
 
as liquid said easy 4.5 i would how ever get a nice 3rd party cooler as One they look so nice and the right one will keep it incredibly cool over the stock cooler
 
Was considering the CM V6GT as my cooler, looks ace and seems to have some sweet reviews.

**Update**

This is my rig as I forsee it in 8 weeks time:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1)
Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply
Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) x2
Cooler Master V6GT CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM2+/AM3)
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail
 
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