Yippee I7 time!... Or should it be I5??

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Damnation, justa s I am about to splash out a complete new system another CPU appears that AnandTech thinks maybe better in games:confused:

Make no mistake - its just for games:D

So what do you folks think I7 or I5?

For that matter what power supply as well [12gb ram, mb and GOOD gFX card]

I thank you....
 
Hell if its jus for games, yo ucould go with AMD, buy a 720BE and save yourself a massive bundle. Or spend that money on a nice GPU
 
For games, amd + massive graphics cards is the way to go

i5 isn't going to be quicker than i7, it'll be slower and cheaper. Its retaliation for amd killing them on price/performance in some areas
 
If you are buying now, then its i7, but if you can wait then wait and see what happens since i5 is just around the corner. There isn't a lot of info/review at the moment to suggest the i5 is better or worst then the i7.
I'll be deffo getting one to play with, but will wait for the mobo/bios to mature a little..etc, and see which mobo/CPU clocks better before buying, might even wait until D0 versions. I don't want to jump onto new tech straight away until I've read some solid user reviews...etc.
 
If you go for the lower tier i7 stuff, £130 for board, £200 CPU and something like the Patriot Viper 3GB kit for £49, the cost is more than core2 quad systems, but is still very good peformance. If you are thinking of £120 of 6GB RAM, i7 920 and a £200 board, then a really good CPU cooler, it does get expencive, all depends if you are happy with a smaller overclock and RAM. The P55 chipset is actually what is coming out supporting 1156 CPUs, there are core i5 and i7 CPUs for this socket. They are almost the same speed, but actually the 2nd most powerful, the core i7 850 costs the same as the i7 920, so it'll be RAM and motherboard where you get the saving. The X58 chipset is also better in terms of PCIE bandwidth, though it doesnt affect Xfire and SLI setups at the moment, when cards start using more lanes it could make a difference.
 
Phenom II

this chip is awsome in gaming, even people that had I7 says so, and in reviews its not that far off it helds its own very well in gaming
its a hell of a chip for its price and it loves to be clocked

however if you have your dreams set on i7 than don't let us stand your way :)

in gaming, you spend a lot on your CPU but a lot more on your graphics card :P
 
What would you do right now if you had the money? Wait for lynnfield or plonk for a 920 s1366 now?

I have to go back and research the PhenomII option, but in the meantime, I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts on buying a 920 now :)
 
If I was not gaming all the time, which tbh I am

i would get the I7, but for gaming I see no point in upgrading to AMD based system as I will have to get a new mobo/ram and cpu although a 955 is faster(there about) than my Q9550 its not fast enough to cater for a upgrade and think of how much it would cost.
 
What I've read so far, the P55 chipset is using 30W less power than X58, I would wait a few more weeks to see what i5 really does have to offer with the P55 chipset in terms of value/performance/power usage, it might just be worth buying.
 
*Cough* There are a couple of cracking i7s* which will be out for the LGA1156 platform on release, the i5 however is probably not much more interesting than a C2Q as it doesn't have hyperthreading.

*i7 860 and i7 870. Note all i7 9**s are LGA1366.

However if gaming is your primary concern, the Phenom II 965BE is looking very attractive at the moment.
 
I'm pretty sure when the dust settles gamers will still be buying amd

hyperthreading wont be helping games. I was under the impression the 3rd and 4th cores dont do a whole lot for them either.

If I was buying right now, I would buy precisely what is in my sig.
 
I'm quite happy with the build I already have, the 965BE isnt really worth the extra considering the 955BE will clock virtually same & clocks to 3.4GHz at 1.325v.

If I go P55 chipset I'll most probally go for the i7 860 may as well take advantage of the HT, I'll wait till reviews come out to see if it's really worth the move, gaming wise I doubt it will but who knows.

I dont see the point in wasting money on X58 chipset for gaming when the above will be out soon anyway.
 
Typhoon said:
Does Hyperthreading do much in games? If those i5 overclock higher than i7's then that may be the one to go for.
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A hyperthreaded quad core will only help in games when the game devs actually manage to use 4 cores for the game, and you want something to run in the background as well.

At the moment, even for "multithreaded games", you get about a 80% increase going from single to dual core, ~15-40% from dual to tri(depending on the game), and effectively 0% from tri to quad.

Like it or not, most games are multiplatform these days, and the devs don't have the budgets to really take advantage of high clocked quads and monster GPUs when 80% of their customers are on a console, and out of the remaining 20%, most of them don't have "dream machines"
 
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