Sold my 920 do

digi7al

digi7al

digi7al

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Rig sold, i7 920 do @ 3.5ghz, gigabyte ud5 x58, 6gb 1333 ram, ocz modstream 700w ati 470 Sold to a friend for £400

Incoming hardware i5 2500k, 4gb, Gskill RipjawsX 1600-2133 mhz ram, Asus P8P67 mobo, Corsair HX 750w Modular, Asus GTX 480 Price approx £730 bought all on ocuk except motherboard due to me ordering a Gigabyte ud3 then changing my mind afterwards and missing saturday delivery deadline here at OC.

So effectively £320 for a GTX 480 a much better at least imo, PSU, less ram and a lower end mobo and no hyper threading but holy **** when im seeing 4.5ghz thrown around easily on air and even 5ghz on water i just knew i had to take the plunge and sit this under my EK supreme.

Couple of questions, is it really as simple as changing the multi and voltage, to Oc these sandys and reassure me i shouldnt have just bought a gtx 570 like i was originall going to :D

Ps my 920 do tapped out at 3.8ghz and i think the ram was holding me back so i scaled back to 3.5 and decided against buying new faster ram for 400 ish mhz
 
Just for the record my 8GB Geil c9 isn't the best, but it's got me to 4.6GHz stable at just over 1.32v. Why not maybe trade speed for space and get 8GB instead?

I did consider faster ram myself, but I wouldn't have seen the benefit:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/2011/01/11/the-best-memory-for-sandy-bridge/4

Also I can personally vouch for the gtx 480 and 570 being very similar in performance as I've used both myself. Either one is a good choice at the right price :)
 
I really dont feel the need for 8gb of ram, 4gb is absolutely as much as i need atm, as i mainly game. The moment i see real world gains in games i play, i'd do it though, same as dropping the i7 920 do with ht in favour of the faster sandy (hopefuilly) clocks, i just feel speed generally always wins in games in my experience, or if turns out not true i could always drop this 1600mhz cl8 ram i just bought to 1333 and go cl6, perhaps, which is getting towards old ddr2 latencies :) and tbh i never realised the oc procedure had changed from the i7, ie no link with the cpu/ram, but ho hey, it's done now and Ram is cheap as chips atm so no biggie if more is needed soon.

The 480 for basically £75 cheaper than the 570 just seemed too good to turn down, which of the 2 do you prefer? I'm not planning to oc the 480 atm as im worried about noise breaching my otherwise quiet gaming room, of course if i decide to add a waterblock or an aftermarket air cooler, i will then look at oc'ing.
 
I don't understand. You seem to have spent money changing to a system with the same performance as the previous one.

If you could only get 3.5ghz out of a watercooled i7 920 I can see no reason to think you'll get 4.5ghz out of a i5 2500k.
 
Madness to sell an i7 to switch to sandybridge, tbh even the fact you had an i7 sitting at 3.5ghz is an abomination, theese chips will do 4ghz with relative ease, plus they still offer better multi gpu support.
 
digi7al said:
Rig sold, i7 920 do @ 3.5ghz, gigabyte ud5 x58, 6gb 1333 ram, ocz modstream 700w ati 470 Sold to a friend for £400
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The winner is: your friend. :eek:

He'll probably look on here and get that 920 to 4.0 GHz within a few minutes.

Edit: Too late now for you, but maybe you can tell your friend that he can run the RAM at 6x (1200MHz) and it should enable him to run a BCLK of around 200 (4000MHz)

Surely the bottleneck before the change was the GPU, now after the change you're in the same situation.

Crumbled under upgraditus. :D
 
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920 to 4ghz is fairly easy, as long as you have adequate cooling and a wee bit of knowlegge on oc'ing, i know that i wouldnt swap mine for anything at the minute.
 
I had it to 4ghz but was never fully stanle and it was needing lots of volts too and like i previously said im a gamer and also see a better upgrade future on 1155 than 1366, the fact that the auto tune on a sandy bridge can hit 4.1 means i can comfortably sit 500mhz above where im at now and in the past i have had good oc results in the past, 4.2ghz on my wolfdale e8400 for example, the 920 was bought second hand on ebay and as such never felt my own, weirdly.

Fact is like previously mentioned it's cost me £320 for a a GTX 480, which is not a bottleneck, i dont care how it is spun and a Corsair psu, the ocz i had was fine but the cable lengths were rubbish in my ATCS840 case so i gave that away cheap to my mate along with the ati for £50 the pair as we game together and currently he's using an original 1.8ghz c2d and an x1950 pro so it was a favour too which might i add, i suggested.

If performance gains are minimal, i will be happy with my new tech regardless and enjoy it just as much as the last.
 
Being a gamer as you say, why didn't you consider adding a second GTX 470 for £150?? This would have been the most cost effective way of upgrading your rig and it'll wipe the floor against a single 480.
 
LEUVEN said:
The winner is: your friend. :eek:

He'll probably look on here and get that 920 to 4.0 GHz

Surely the bottleneck before the change was the GPU
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Nothing wrong with the single 470 or sli 470, at stock but even better overclocked, my 470 850:1700:2000 close to a 480. :)
 
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