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Sandy bridge or stick with 1366

Thx, I mainly use the computer for WoW which is cpu intensive. I think I will be patient and mull it over for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for the advice.
 
DragonQ said:
lol why would you go SB for a NAS/HTPC? Total waste of money.
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Probably true, there are certainly cheaper options out there. It's often tempting to buy new kit under the guise of saving electricity, but the economics just aren't in favour of the change.

I think a low power intel dual core, with sufficient onboard graphics, is probably the sweet spot for most computers. I.e. those which are neither workstation, nor server, nor dedicated to gaming. The better choice for a htpc is probably the i3 generation though, shortly after they fall in price when sandy bridge comes out.
 
Stick with 1366 just now cos it has lots of pins than the SB 1155.. so keep it and save some money for next one with new 2011 due by Q3 2011 so you can upgrade if you want that would be better than buy SB 1155.. I would wait for the new AMD AM4 by next 2-3 years time as Ive decided not to buy AM3+ Bulldozer as Im using AM3 X6 1100T that enough for me and save some money until AM4 come out with DDR4 memory...
 
Another hijack alert......

Have ben very tempted by this as has been over 18 months since i built my last rig and was contemplating changing to SB when i get back to the UK in May (am deployed chasing pirates somewhere off Africa until then).

Was going to go 2600K with an Asus P8P67 mobo (was thinking pro, but will be staying Red with my GFX due to having spent the cash on 3 24" monitors for Eyefinity). Will be re-cycling the bulk of my current sig rig, so am only looking at CPU and mobo as outlay............for now.........
 
^ go for it, but save your money and get a 2500k instead as the extra threads don't seem to do particularly much, even in apps which use the extra threads.

use the extra cash for a better graphics card or hard drive
 
HW91 said:
^ go for it, but save your money and get a 2500k instead as the extra threads don't seem to do particularly much, even in apps which use the extra threads.

use the extra cash for a better graphics card or hard drive
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Thought there was only about £20 or so difference between the 2500K and 2600K ??

Expanding on sig rig (as ran out of space in the sig) there is a second 64 GB SSD in there now and also have a 1TB Samsung in there for general usage. My GFX is doing me ok at the moment, but am contemplating gettting the 6950 and the nflashing it up too, but that will be further down the line me thinks
 
Chuggerboom said:
Unless you have more money than sense?
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I'm upgrading in the sense that if i want to upgrade in a few years it'll cost me £300+ but if i just upgrade on a rolling basis as new stuff comes out and before my current stuff depreciates in cost too much it'll cost me less

Sure it costs more in the long run as it means upgrading more frequently but for the sake of curing my upgrade itch and wanting the latest junk purely because it's there it's a good principal :D
 
Shelster said:
Thought there was only about £20 or so difference between the 2500K and 2600K ??
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More like £90 unfortunately.

+1 for the 2500K suggestion, it is probably one of the best current bang-for-buck CPUs.

Make sure you sell your Q9550 and X48 board - the second-hand prices are still pretty good so the upgrade won't cost you much.
 
cmndr_andi said:
More like £90 unfortunately.

+1 for the 2500K suggestion, it is probably one of the best current bang-for-buck CPUs.

Make sure you sell your Q9550 and X48 board - the second-hand prices are still pretty good so the upgrade won't cost you much.
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Guess i was a wee bit off there with my costings. £90 is a fair jump up in price. Seen as how all i will be doingis mostly gaming (the odd bit of Photoshop thrown in as i try to learn that) reckon the 2500k is the better option.

The Q9550 and mobo will be making its way into the MM too. Shame I cant do anything about it for the next 5 months.......
 
Don't upgrade from s1366 or even s1156 IMO, unless you get a very good sale price.

i5-2500k looks decent and the mobos aren't that badly priced but you are still talking £300 or so, I'll be skipping this generation.
 
I'm upgrading from 775 to 1156. Had a good think about it and I really don't think Sandy Bridge is worth the money. It's not the chips, but the motherboards. Lack of Quicksync on the initial batch combined with the high prices has put me right off. I can pick up a used 1156 mobo that would do the trick for around £70. For the same from Sandy Bridge it'd cost me £150 new. The new bios is nice, but it ain't that kinda nice!
 
Im certainly considering going to SB. Ive already got 4Gb of the Geil 1600Mhz stuff, and bet i can get back 2 thirds of what i spend on a SB CPU and mobo by selling my current 775 stuff. I was going to go 1156 but SB will only cost me an extra £40 - £50
 
I will be building a Sandy Bridge system this afternoon (with any luck) and I expect it to be worth the money, for me. I upgraded from a struggling 3.2Ghz Q6600 (struggling because I play, amongst other titles, Arma 2 + Operation Arrowhead). If I had a previous generation i5 that overclocked to about 4Ghz I really wouldn't have bothered upgrading as it just doesn't make economic sense.

Anyway - I will hopefully be writing a short comparative review for anybody interested in Arma 2 performance and CPU dependency at decent graphics settings.
 
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