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Nevakonaza

Nevakonaza

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Hey guys,

Well by been lucky ive now the proud owner ot two new motherboards

Foxconn Flaming Blade GTI Intel X58 (Socket 1366)

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Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L Intel P55 (Socket 1156)

Now im not sure what to do,go the I7 + Tripple channel ram route,which is costly...or go the I5 760 route with Dual channel ram,Which is still expensive.

The I5 route + 4gb of 1600mhz of ram would set me back £220 or so..

But something inside me is saying its just not worth spending all that money for these two reasons...

1.Intels releasing new skt soon.
2.current setup is powerfull enough,not enough gain.

Btw this is my current setup.

Q6600 @ 3.5Ghz -Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme
Asus P5Q-SE P45
4GB Ocz Gold Series| Asus Xonar D1
Palit GTX 460 768mb (851/1702/2023)
OCZ Vertex 2 60Gb SSD | 500+250Gb Hard Drives
OCZ StealthXStream 600W Modular
Coolermaster CM690 (Window Modded)
Windows 7 Home Premium X64 Bit.

what you think i should do guys? just sell both boards?
 
waste of money to go i7 route, if u need to then upgrade i5 route cause (depending on what u use it for) performance will be very similar.

personally, ur current system is not slow, and with intel releasing their new cpus very soon (apparently january) idd sell them both now while they are still worth something and invest the money on a p67 set up :)

whatever u decide, u will enjoy it anyway :)
 
Neither will be a big upgrade over your current rig. Sell and wait. X58 is just as EOL as P55. I really don't know why people think an i7 hex-core is going to be some great cheap future upgrade extending the life of X58, and therefore some kind of good reason to choose X58 over P55 for gaming now?? It will be a stupid price CPU forever and ever and ever. Faster cheaper mainstream six, even eight cores on future platforms will be available by the time current quads are struggling.
 
Your system look quite solid for me, but just wonder why would you bought those boards in the first place? Would you like to upgrade? If I were you sale those boards keep play on you old rig 'till new thing come up next year, if you like Chrismas come early then go fot i7 upgrade. ope it help
 
The only time you 'need' to upgrade is when you system is no longer able to do the things you need it to do.

That being said, we mostly upgrade because we want the new shiny toys. :D

Your system should still be able to do pretty much all that you want it to do. I would say wait for the next socket to come out and then make a call.
 
jakspyder said:
intels new socket will not make i5 or i7 obsolete... i7s will remain great for a good long while...
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I agree, however I think the point is that they will be obsolete before the new "Sandy Bridge" Intel chips are. So with them being close it may be worth upgrading to one of the instead so that you are "not obsolete" for longer.

That said as the i7 replacement is a way off and the OP has an X58 board, this is probably the route I'd go down. Since this is Intel's enthusiast platform you'd expect it to still be the enthusiast platform until the enthusiast version of the Sandy Bridge comes out. Meaning that I would expect the x58 platform to considerably outperform the mainstream Sandy Bridge platform.
 
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