I9 and wait or i7 and buy now

The X58 motherboards will support the i9, so just buy an i7 setup now and then when you think you need an i9, an upgrade will be easy :)
 
Aye, x58 chipsets will support i9 "Gulftown".

How CPU intensive is "coding in net beans"? Because all your other stated uses are not very CPU intensive at all, certainly not requiring a £700+ i9 processor, or even an i7.

An SSD usually gives a nice perceptible boost in performace of everyday tasks, certainly worth getting if you cann afford it. I suggest getting either an intel, OCZ or Crucial SSD. Make sure you get one at least 80GB in size and make sure you put your OS and programs on it.

As for sound card, if you have some decent speakers/headphones, they are a must. I suggest looking at an ASUS Xonar card.

As for your monitors working, what graphics card are you using?
 
That's not heavy multi talking. A fast dual core would rip through it. The X58 platform is excessive, you'll notice no difference at all between the X58 920 and something like the P55 750. Given this, the six core chip would be a ridiculous purchase for this usage.

By all means buy whatever you want, but there's no reason to get this quick a processor. An ssd is good though, you'll like one of those. The only regions where the X58 platform excels are as a cheap server, workstation, video encoder or in raw calculation such as folding.

I suggest P55 with one of the cheap processors, or a 775 system with a q9550.
 
i hear all your thoughts, the point of me upgrading is to spend money, i need to spend this £1600, because if i dont i wont upgrade for 5 years, because of the money will get frozen, soo its a must, i have been getting a set up ready to post to you guys and when its done i will show you.
 
pumyplumpy said:
ok so i took what you guy have said and i deiced to get the i7 now and then drop the i9 in later what my problem is what chipset to buy into, can anyone say for sure that a mother board will be campaible.

i use the computer to msn, browser(20+) tabs, coding in net beans, youtube, itunes, burn cd movies, copy and paste losts of data, download..torrents. run little apps here and there.

i overclocked my pc before but it was very very unstable under xp, even when i took it of it still crashed, installed windows 7 and no problems, when it was overclocked i noticed no change.

i want an SSD but i dont no whitch one to get becuase i have had no time to look in to them, cases are easy the bigger the better dont have any size worrys, also a nice sound card might do the trick.

i got 2 21" dells (1080p) my grapics card seems fine but dont no what u think?
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If thats all you are doing lol, you really don't need an I7 920 or even a I5 for that matter. You could pick up an old AMD Athlon or Sempron / Intel Pentium Celeron for around £100 or a cheap Laptop with a gig of ram for under £200 to do what you want to do. People come on forums like this and say they want some hi spec PC to do the most basic things and I find it astonishing that they don't have any comprehension of how extreamly powerful these top end systems are. It's like they have been under a rock for the past 10 years.
It is complete and utter overkill to be buying a system so expensive for the things listed, never mind looking at Core I9 next year. Core I7 systems are not particulary cheap to run either. A basic 15.4" dual core laptop consumes approximatelly 45 watts of power in high performance mode. I have had 50 explorer pages, msn messanger running, Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop CS2 with multiple graphic images open running Vista on a 2GIG Dualcore 1.73 Laptop and still able to work away happily all for £280.
 
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well i am sorry about you, i dont wish to come to this forum to be told what system i require, i can overkill as much as i require, i have found my system now to be slow, i dont wait around, i want it to be working now, and what you said about this laptop is just lies, just dont understand y you replied to that post. being under a rock for the past 10 year? i am 18, 19 in 25 days, i not use a computer when i was 8.
 
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i dont wish to come to this forum to be told what system i require.
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I disagree. This is exactly why you started this thread, to ask whether you require the 920 or the six core version. You have your answer; you need neither. You will not be able to tell the difference between these and the P55 processors, or indeed the socket 775 chips.

You came here with a question and have received an honest answer. If you now want to throw this back in our faces we'll have to assume you're trolling. Spend your money however you wish. My £300 netbook can do everything you've listed.
 
i own a netbook, and i use this in uni. my point was that i dabble in things a lot, i have friends that might use things on my pc, i like to be upto date. i am not throwing anything back in your faces, just though it was cheeky the way he was telling me i need a latop, after not even reading the whole thread? as for not telling me what i require, i take this back and say i need advice, not instructions, which is what i have gotten from the people above.
 
Fair play mate, crossed wires I think.

I'm at uni, using a netbook and a desktop. It's a good combination, especially given remote desktop software. Using the four core i7, I'd like to move to the six core chip when it comes out. In no sense is it needed though, even though I run cad software relatively often. A 4ghz i7 tears through any remotely reasonable workload.

The issue is that the uses described don't remotely justify this. If you spend the money on the x58 platform, and it performs identically to the far cheaper options, then all you've done is rob yourself. X58 is faster, but the difference between instant and a bit more instant isn't very significant really.
 
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