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What cpu's are out ?

niftyfifty

niftyfifty

niftyfifty

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Am ordering my pc within 4 weeks but looking around (im out of the game) it seems i7 is "dying" so its pointless spending £3000 on a pc now (that includes a 1200 quid monitor btw).

How long untill latest tech and what is it, from both intel and amd ? I need something that will support a pair of 6950's in crossfire unlocked to 6970, and 2560x1600!

Thankyou
 
Surveyor said:
Intel Sandybridge is out now.

AMD Bulldozer due in June.

Nothing alse new from Intel until the end of the year.
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+1 to all of this

If you are mainly gaming then I would suggest you go for a Sandy Bridge i5 2500K and a P67 board that supports x8/x8 crossfire like this one.

The i5 2600K lacks the hyperthreading support of the sandy bridge i7 2600K and has 6MB L3 cache compared to 8MB in the i7 - but apart from that they are pretty much the same CPU. Both are quad cores and both have an unlocked multiplier for some very easy overclocking. Since games really don't use hyperthreading then the i5 won't be any slower in games when run at the same clockspeed as the i7 (here is a review of these cpus at stock clockspeeds in games). You could take the money you save going for the 2500K and put it towards buying an Ivy Bridge s1155 chip which come out next year and should work in existing s1155 boards with a BIOS update.
 
Wait for the bulldozers if your gonna lash out in my opinion, i want one myself, no idea on the price range for them yet, im gonna guess a fair bit though :P
 
belial8321 said:
Wait for the bulldozers if your gonna lash out in my opinion, i want one myself, no idea on the price range for them yet, im gonna guess a fair bit though :P
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i agree, unless you are desperate i would wait, probably be cheaper to get a sandybridge then aswell
 
But wont BD cores also be hyper-threaded as well.

Rather than saying that games don't use hyper-threaded cores, its more correct to say that games don't currently scale up to 8 cores.

Thats when the 2600k will come in to its own, over the 2500k, question is will it matter?

Hard to say, as by then newer faster chips will be out, but for longevity and future proofing, the 2600k maybe the better choice?

For me a cpu has about 4 years gaming life span, so.....
 
I dont see the point in waiting 8 weeks just to see if AMD can actually perform, and then end up buying i7 anyway. If there was a sandybridge replacement out in 8 weeks then I would do that, but there isnt. Whats the wait time for ivybridge ?

Its sad really, seems a bit stupid buying now as i7 is "dead" however theres nothing coming to better it any time soon on the intel side.
 
niftyfifty said:
I dont see the point in waiting 8 weeks just to see if AMD can actually perform, and then end up buying i7 anyway. If there was a sandybridge replacement out in 8 weeks then I would do that, but there isnt. Whats the wait time for ivybridge ?

Its sad really, seems a bit stupid buying now as i7 is "dead" however theres nothing coming to better it any time soon on the intel side.
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You are wrong. The I7 2600k was only released a few months ago, its a monster CPU, and is certainly not "dead".

Are you thinking of socket 1366 I7's which are older, but still are very good CPU's?
 
niftyfifty said:
No im thinking about the news that gigabyte has dropped P67 for Z86 which sounds like a dead platform to me!?
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Aye, Gigabyte is dropping the P67 chipset boards and switching entirely over to Z68 boards. This is because as well as overclocking (which the P67 can do), the Z68 boards can also access the integrated graphics and use Intel quick sync technology (both with and without a discrete graphics card installed).

This doesn't affect which is the best CPUs at all - the Z68 boards are still LGA 1155 and the fastest CPU available for it (for the time being) will be the i7 2600K.

Also, unless you plan on using the integrated graphics core or Intel Quick Sync technology then there really isn't much reason to go for a Z68 board over a P67 R3 one. The one good thing that the Z68 lauch will bring to the table is that P67 R3 boards will likely drop in price - so you could nab a bit of a bargain when Z68 lands.
 
sonicology said:
Bulldozer has two integer cores per module which is better than hyperthreading.
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Can you explain this integer cores technology a bit more please? How is it better than hyperthreading, once you have explained I'll be more inclined to believe your statement. :confused:

Also "i7 is dead" lol. If you mean socket 1366? then nah. Intel themselves have said that the i7 x58 1366 is still the enthusiast way to go. Am I right in thinking that crossfire/sli the pci express lane is limited to x16 for both sockets, whilst the x58 boards support it full speed?
 
LinktoInsanity said:
Also "i7 is dead" lol. If you mean socket 1366? then nah. Intel themselves have said that the i7 x58 1366 is still the enthusiast way to go. Am I right in thinking that crossfire/sli the pci express lane is limited to x16 for both sockets, whilst the x58 boards support it full speed?
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I get where you are coming from, but unless you plan on running more than two graphics cards or need insane amounts of RAM then a sandy bridge system is a better option than nahalem i7 on X58.

Even with just x8/x8 PCIe 2.0 and top-end single-GPU cards the performance difference between a standard P67 board and a full x16/x16 board like an X58 is tiny and the CPU power of the SB system is a fair bit better (and it overclocks further). Have a look at this article.
 
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