i just got my rig recently in past few weeks, and its nagging me cos this new socket is coming out, will this leave i7 in the dust and forgotten ? or will i7 still reign all good and well. would sandy bridge be a noticable upgrade from i7 950 or should i keep this generation and is it just throwing money away if i upgrade. i use my computer for, encoding, film design, music workstation and gaming.
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if i have an i7 950 would it even be worth upgrading to sandy bridge ?
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It will probably be "better" but by how much no one knows yet.
I wouldn't worry about it if I were you, there will always be something newer around the corner, if your current system handles everything you need right now then that's all that matters.
I wouldn't worry about it if I were you, there will always be something newer around the corner, if your current system handles everything you need right now then that's all that matters.
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Personally I think I'll hold off for the triple-channel version, but a 5GHz overclock *is* tempting 
Dont think its worth you changing now you got your stuff. I held off buying i7 950 as its going to be older tech in a few months.
Im waiting for sandy to arrive but still need to know how it performs.
Hi garyfl 
. . . looks like a seriously powerful computer you have there . . . good bit of e-Slong too! 
The forums will be full of people trying to "Justify" their upgrades by saying "It's the Best upgrade I ever did" and "this upgrade only cost me £13.00 after I sold all my spare systems and cashed in $200 I had left from my holiday . . . bargain"
All the major tech websites will be hit by Marketing® Dollar $$$ and any mention of LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 will be stripped away . . . almost like the product never existed . . . all you will see is SandyBridge® New! . . . SandyBridge® Must Have! . . . SandyBridge® Buy!
When you say "its nagging me" do you mean your machine is speaking to you or?
. . . looks like a seriously powerful computer you have there . . . good bit of e-Slong too! Well if the new products are like any of the old products the LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 will be hit by a massive "perceived obsolescence" marketing campaign . . . e-Slongers will scramble to ditch their "Old-Tech" and members market will be full of "ancient" cut-price LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 systems and loads of Intel® LGA775 QuadCore systems . . . the bargain hunters will be circling like carrion crows!
The forums will be full of people trying to "Justify" their upgrades by saying "It's the Best upgrade I ever did" and "this upgrade only cost me £13.00 after I sold all my spare systems and cashed in $200 I had left from my holiday . . . bargain"
Depends who you speak too (see above) and what you want from your PC? . . . if your an e-Slonger then your forum credibility will suffer by not spending-up to the latest and greatest . . .
All the major tech websites will be hit by Marketing® Dollar $$$ and any mention of LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 will be stripped away . . . almost like the product never existed . . . all you will see is SandyBridge® New! . . . SandyBridge® Must Have! . . . SandyBridge® Buy!
Well you better hurry up and get some work done . . . as soon as the new hardware comes out that PC will be dead-in-the-water, mediocre and struggling to even load windows!
...The forums will be full of people trying to "Justify" their upgrades by saying "It's the Best upgrade I ever did" and "this upgrade only cost me £13.00 after I sold all my spare systems and cashed in $200 I had left from my holiday . . . bargain"
...All the major tech websites will be hit by Marketing® Dollar $$$ and any mention of LGA1366 Intel® Core™ i7 will be stripped away . . . almost like the product never existed . . . all you will see is SandyBridge® New! . . . SandyBridge® Must Have! . . . SandyBridge® Buy!
.. Well you better hurry up and get some work done . . . as soon as the new hardware comes out that PC will be dead-in-the-water, mediocre and struggling to even load windows!
Despite the tongue-in-cheek humour, theres so much truth spoken here, no one wants to admit to e-peen
/ranton
There are two types of people that tend to annoy me. The e-peeners with there "OMFG I got latest kit and I'm now 6.5% quicker and have +2FPS in CS:Source!". The others are the "Waaaaaaaaaaait theres Sandybridge comin' out soon, oh wait theres Ivybridge lets wait for that! No wait, the next next next generation after that will be EVEN BETTA, lets wait for that".
/endrant
Buy the best bang for buck for what you need now, and clock the pants off it. This is the way... of the OcUK'er.
However good sandybridge is or isn't when it comes out doesn't mean a damn good chip from before suddenly becomes useless so a powerful chip now will still be a powerful chip then . We are at a point where little outside of specialist programs stresses what we have now let alone what is coming so ignore the nagging and be happy you have a hell of a pc right now. I upgrade every three years and buy whatever is best for me at that time i am due to upgrade next june/july but might put it off a bit if BD isn't out as i would hate to buy sandy then see it get beat by BD or be that close but so much cheaper. For me that makes sense although some on here would say "oh just get a good one now" it's personal choice just never put off indefinately because of what might be coming or you'll never buy a component again .
. We are at a point where little outside of specialist programs stresses what we have now let alone what is coming so ignore the nagging and be happy you have a hell of a pc right now. I upgrade every three years and buy whatever is best for me at that time i am due to upgrade next june/july but might put it off a bit if BD isn't out as i would hate to buy sandy then see it get beat by BD or be that close but so much cheaper. For me that makes sense although some on here would say "oh just get a good one now" it's personal choice just never put off indefinately because of what might be coming or you'll never buy a component again .
I gotta admit, i like playing with new kit, i had a 3.8ghz q6600, turned round and bought a q9550, some people said i was mad to do so, but i wanted to try a 45nm quad, had good fun clocking it on a p45 mobo, kept it for a few months then turned round and sold the whole lot to go i7, my current i7 rig is more than enough for what i do, great gaming rig with sli gpu's, which is my primary use, the cpu itself though is overkill for games, really shows its worth in encoding work, i collect films on dvd/blu ray, like to rip disks onto my hdd's, something that the i7 does very well.
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Has been half tempting too go Core i5/i7 route but just like yourself didnt bother, my Q6600 even at stock still does the job just fine
Think however I will upgrade too Core i7-2 Sandybridge and a new shiny ATI 6000 series card come early 2011