well I was just going by the cinebench scores on the previous page, and clock for clock they were basically scoring the same for rendering performance.
I'm sure you were sambo_joseph!
You know the quest for knowledge and the forming of a strong opinion really should take a little time, I certainly wouldn't make my mind up over a £500-£750 pound purchase based on a single video review and several forum posts made by hardware obsessives!
I've got nothing against Maxishine (apart from him saying awesome 11 times in his video review), he seems like he is enjoying his hobby and in that review he does at least make half an effort to do an A-B comparisons but there is no mention of how the Core2 platform has it's memory set-up, I highly doubt he is running DDR2 at an effective 1332MHz (which is possible)and would make quite a big difference to the A-B encoding results.
The really great thing about i7 is the speed of the psuedo FSB and memory, out the box it can just wallop tons more data backwards and forwards from the memory to CPU, really ace but with a bit of know how it is possible to get great performance from Core 2 is you tweak your system just so. The other i7 feature that is quite unique is the hyper-threading, that would be really useful in muti-threaded apps!
I'm not saying that a highly tweaked Core 2 platform can beat an i7 but the margin would be quite reduced. Yes there are a lot of cool things about i7 but looking at it from a bang-for-buck perspective it may not be as good a gain for the cash and effort involved at this time.
Some may argue that an i7 is a no-brainer for those who have splurged big bucks on a top end Core2 Quad, on the surface this would seem to make sense however from a bang-for-buck stance there is nothing sensible about buying an extreme processor £££
Some common reasons to upgrade to i7
- I'm bored to death with the LGA775 platform and fancy a play with something new
- I'm an extreme bencmarker and I need a good system to make the most of my Tri-SLI
- I hate upgrading but I now feel my socket A Barton system is holding me back
- I've been working hard and really need some retail therapy
- I'm a multi-media profesional and I could in theory make the money back on the i7 platform in a week or two through added productivity
- I want the best no matter the cost
- My ePeen has suffered abit of eShrivel since i7 launched
I still think a small low cost/effort upgrade has its merits, I wouldn't have said Kentsfield to Yorkfield was a waste of time, bit of a new toy, faster computer, bit of retail therapy and something to tinker with until i7 prices and tech settle down a bit!
