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CaptainCox
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 Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2008 08:51 Post subject: Skipping 1st gen 1366 Nehalem What to get? |
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Decided to skip the first gen of Nehalem "1366" and stick with my Rampage Formula board "775".
Have a E8500 at the mo @4GHz. But i am thinking to get a Quad. Hoping they will drop a bit in price when the new Nehalem's comes out in a few weeks.
Question is which one to get that can OC well?.
I would not go for a Extreme but.
But thinking one of these maybe
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 4x2.83GHz
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Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 4x3.0GHz
Anyone have experience OCing those, and where would one hit the ceiling with them.
Just checked the price on
Intel Core i7 940 4x2.93GHz 699,99 €
WOW 
Not out for another four weeks but (on the German site i checked)
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2008 13:42 Post subject: |
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Yeah I'm doing the same thing, got a Q9450 
It's also best to wait for later revisions of the new motherboards.
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2008 19:54 Post subject: |
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My bro has his 9550 at 3.6Ghz with the vcore bumped to 1.275 but it was putting out a ton of heat so he opted to go with another cooling solution. Most people seem to be able to hit at least 3.4-3.6Ghz on air easily.
I don't see the need to push them any farther than that though.
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2008 19:57 Post subject: |
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I'd say wait. The E8500 is still perfectly fine. Nothing uses quad core anyways. So basically, wait until the current LGA775 quad-cores become shit cheap like a half year from now.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2008 20:19 Post subject: |
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Hm, by then I will probably go for what ever comes after i7...i8 maybe  . I will at least update my rig like late next year...i guess.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Oct 2008 00:32 Post subject: |
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As Mchart already said, your dual core cpu @ 4000 Mhz outperforms a quadcore (which is nearly impossible to oc to 4 Ghz on air) in 99% of all things you most likely do.
It`s simple: When you don`t have an idea why you`d need a quadcore - you don`t need a quadcore.
I bet your rig is even way faster than the nehalems when they hit the market.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Oct 2008 08:14 Post subject: |
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Cheers AwE. Your comments are always taken with gratitude here. I feel a bit calmer now . I guess I will save my money and go for that 30" Dell instead.
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Nov 2008 14:34 Post subject: |
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Would be sad if their would be NO huge difference.
But for Games it`s useless.
I`m impatiently waiting for first user benchmarks. I bet a Nehalem at stock won`t beat any core2duo@4GHz.
If you look at the realworld benchmarks that doesn`t highly profit from multicore support even a 8400@stock comes close.
At least it`s absolutely not cost efficient if you don`t use your rig mainly for multicore optimized tasks.
And look at their game benchmarks:
1680x1050 - I mean cmon.... pffffff....
and: I7 at 3.84 Ghz but no overclocked core2duo benchmarks?!
But what would you expect from Toms Hardware...
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fwb73
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Nov 2008 20:30 Post subject: |
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check the reviews on guru3d, makes some interesting reading
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i7-multigpu-sli-crossfire-game-performance-review/
intel i7 3770k @4.4, ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, 16GB Corsiar Vengance 1600 ram, ATI 5850 BE, Antec 1 Case, Antec 1 550W PSU, emu0404, 120gb agility3 ssd OS, 2x60gbvertex2raid0 Games, 3 TB total sata2 Data. win7 x64.
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Nov 2008 22:35 Post subject: |
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very interesting, thx for the link.
Looks like the i7 will stomp the core2duo IF gpu is not bottlenecking.
Now make that benchmarks with a core2duo @ 4 Ghz and I am happy.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Nov 2008 22:38 Post subject: |
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| AwE wrote: | very interesting, thx for the link.
Looks like the i7 will stomp the core2duo IF gpu is not bottlenecking.
Now make that benchmarks with a core2duo @ 4 Ghz and I am happy. |
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