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if i have an i7 950 would it even be worth upgrading to sandy bridge ?

Big.Wayne said:
Hi garyfl :)


When you say "its nagging me" do you mean your machine is speaking to you or? :D . . . 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! :eek:

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" :D


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! :p


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! ;) :cool:
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;) your right mate what was i thinking, right this second the system is overkill, projects in cubase at 192,000 khz dont exeed 25+ cpu load and thats massively complicated arrangements that my old pentium 4 got raped over even at 22,000 khz.

apps load up in an instant, ram usage dosent exeed 30% at best its everything i could wish for. i think the rams over kill at 1866mhz but that was a free upgrade so i dont really know the benefits but i certainy didnt pay for 1866 lol

your all right my systems fine i guess its just GAS all over again. only viable upgrade i could see really is an ssd :)
 
1155 sandy bridge will not be better than 1366 i7. 1366 i7 will reign supreme until 2011 sandybridge which won't be released at the same time.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Hi garyfl :)

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! ;) :cool:
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Which reminds me, Service pack 1 for Win7 will be out soon, so you may well need to upgrade ;)

Look what SP3 for XP did to anyones' old unupgraded PC lol

In two years time (and Win8), I predict a 'base' system will have a 4GHz cpu, 6GB RAM, and 1TB storage. A high-end system will come with 5GHz CPU, 12GB RAM, a 3TB spinney and 128GB of SSD built onto the mobo.

When is it possible to ever be content with your latest buy? It isn't so just enjoy it now :)
 
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