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Please advise a high end system to upgrade to from my i7 920

smarshallsay

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Okay, so i've had an i7 920 since June '09 and whilst it still performs great I'd like to upgrade as my new flatmate needs a new machine and I use any excuse I can to keep my PC cutting edge and sell mine to him! :D

The i7 920 Bloomfield is overclocked stable at about 4.1ghz

SSD + ATI 6990 so CPU is probably the bottleneck at present?

PC is mainly for gaming - BF3 for instance. So i probably won't get much mileage out of hyperthreading (its disabled on this machine for gaming anyway).
Although I also do a fair amount of coding on it so I can earn money for wasting on PC parts ;)

I know the Ivy Bridge is coming but thats next May and I don't think I can wait.

So... out of current parts or parts that are out in the very near future whats the top of the range? Is it still 2500k/2600k? With watercooling can i expect 5ghz?

Do any of the AMD 6 cores even come close to the performance of an overclocked 2500k in gaming?

Thankyou for your advice in advance :)

Edit: Also if you can advise on a sensible price for selling just chip, cooler mobo + 12gb of RAM to flatmate then I'd also be grateful. Considering its overclocked i was thinking £200-250?
 
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Ivy Bridge is supposed to be supported on an 1155 socket and the latest motherboards claim to support it. So you could go Sandybridge on a high end Z68 mobo.

Andi.
 
smarshallsay said:
So... out of current parts or parts that are out in the very near future whats the top of the range? Is it still 2500k/2600k? With watercooling can i expect 5ghz?
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Yup 2500k/2600k are still the best, 5ghz is a possibility but I wouldn't expect it.


smarshallsay said:
Do any of the AMD 6 cores even come close to the performance of an overclocked 2500k in gaming?
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No
 
There will be a new socket next year, LGA 2011, for the extreme end processors, replacing the 1366 but I guess it will be mental expensive.
Just go for the i7 2600K on 1155 socket and you'll be able to upgrade to a later ivy bridge cpu next year if you want.
 
An overclocked 920 is still way overkill for most things, a 2600k would only give marginal increases

Edit-Didn't read you were selling it! I would get the 2500k overclock it and pocket the cash.
 
I jumped to 2500k from I7 920. And I have noticed its quicker and smoother...

When I did have my I7 920 overclocked, it did not seem near as quick as the 2500k. And I do not miss hyperthreading either as I turned it off to play games.

I am planning to sell my I7 parts (socket 1366 is now dead socket) as they seem to fetch a fair price still.

Von
 
Thanks for all the advice guys, I think i'll hold off a few weeks just to see how this Zambezi pans out from benchmarks and then probably end up getting a 2500k so I can upgrade to Ivy Bridge later.
 
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