Core i7: Now or Later?

[Fitseries3]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ers+and+gender+changers-_-STARTECH-_-12200145

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202313954&listingid=29007187&dcaid=17902

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Those only work if the keyboard/mouse natively supports it.

 

[Fitseries3]

try one now... before you buy a board. try enabling legacy support in the bios.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

oh shoot, no floppy disc, i'm outahere

Heh, yeah, that was one of the criteria that knocked the MSI boards (and several others) out of the running. I use my FDD a lot for boot disks/BIOS updates.

I bought the DFI which has PS/2 mouse and keyboard.

 

[kid41212003]

You will no longer need floppy disc if you have GIGA board....

Sorry if I annoyed you with my "GIGA posts".

 

[Fitseries3]

use a flash drive wth?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

My tower already has a NEC FDD in it. I have an external NEC FDD too but I usually only hook that up to laptops/desktops without an FDD. I use the internal FDD to format a floppy like once every other week. ROFL, it probably gets more use than my DVD-ROM drive. XD

 

[ShadowFold]

What's a floppy drive? Sounds like a sex toy
jk.. I use USB for bios flashing and all that good stuff.

 

[Fitseries3]

usb floppy then.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I have yet to find an internal USB floppy drive. There's really no reason not to make one so...


Edit: Ah, they are filed separately:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16821104104

Anyway, I already have the drive.

 

[Fitseries3]

you are trying to upgrade but you are letting yourself be held back by old tech?

do you realize that your electricity bill will go up a bit from the switch?

i think everyone overlooks that one.

i dont run my i7 24/7 because its not great with power. my main rig uses less power than my i7 cpu alone.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

you are trying to upgrade but you are letting yourself be held back by old tech?

do you realize that your electricity bill will go up a bit from the switch?

i think everyone overlooks that one.

i dont run my i7 24/7 because its not great with power. my main rig uses less power than my i7 cpu alone.

Useful tech is useful regardless if it is old or new. I'll keep using what I still find useful. For the time being, I'm not prepared to drop FDD or PS/2. I'd be happier if it had 2 x ATA100 too but Intel is trying to make that one vanish ASAP.

Electricity is relatively cheap in these parts (about $100-130 for 5-7 Kw/hr).

My server runs 24/7 and it draws on average a lot more power than my computer (especially if it is working on something). This computer runs about 10-16 hours every day and is on maybe 3 nights a week.

My Opteron 180 is 110w while the Core i7 is about 130w. No significant change there. Also, DDR3 is much lower power than the DDR I am currently running (less one DIMM too). The only thing that could make a significant difference is the X58 chipset compared to nForce 4 Ultra.

 

[Fitseries3]

130w at stock though.

if you OC it it goes A LOT higher. upwards of 300+ watts.

im just letting ppl know that.

some of the younger "kids" that still live with their parents may want to consider this when preparing for when their parents want to know why the electric bill is $40 higher this month.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I said it about three times in this thread alone: it will never be overclocked.

 

[Fitseries3]

sorry... the last 4 pages were a blurr.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Indeed. XD

I need stability. I never sacrifice stability for performance.

 

[Megasty]

130w at stock though.

if you OC it it goes A LOT higher. upwards of 300+ watts.

im just letting ppl know that.

some of the younger "kids" that still live with their parents may want to consider this when preparing for when their parents want to know why the electric bill is $40 higher this month.

You try to tell that to my nephew. He keeps on taking my old super cards to play WoW. I'm just glad he doesn't know jack about new procs.

 

[Fitseries3]

i run my i7 rig about 3-6 hours at a time only 2-3 days a week max. that is all.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

That's not very much. You only have it to overclock and benchmark?

 

[Fitseries3]

yup. pretty much.

 

[CyberDruid]

I'm still running my UT X58 at stock to burn it in. I run all my rigs continuously at 100% load. It'll be interesting to see if the POS Xclio PSU will hold up under the stess.

I sure hope my DFI lasts longer than 4 days.

 

[Fitseries3]

I'm still running my UT X58 at stock to burn it in. I run all my rigs continuously at 100% load. It'll be interesting to see if the POS Xclio PSU will hold up under the stess.

I sure hope my DFI lasts longer than 4 days.

honestly im dissapointed. i really like this board. i have looked away from DFI for a long time and now that i get one and i really like it... something goes wrong. its not totally dead but it has lost one of its major functioning components so its being rma'ed asap.

i WILL stick with DFI though. for sure.

 

[CyberDruid]

I use a wireless card or USB with all my rigs...got sick of the kids and wife tripping over tha damn LAN cables

If you have a wireless router just slap an Edimax wireless in there.

 

[Fitseries3]

thats what i've done for now but this machine is my bench rig for now.

she is home to an array of gtx295's, gtx260's and my new watercooled dell perc 5/i. all the spaces are taken up. i had to pull a 295 out to run the wifi card just so i could fold/crunch tonight.

im sure DFI will RMA this board on monday and if all works as planned i'll have it back after i get my other x58 this week.

i use linksys routers for my net.

i have one here thats acting as a wifi bridge to the main one thats connected to the fibre modem.

so its like this...


(firbe to net)--- (WRT600N) ___________wifi(a/b/g/n)__________(WRT600N#2)---- 4 computers wired gBe.

i also have 2 laptops getting on the wifi as well. the wifi N acts as an invisible gBe cable really. net is snappy. im really pleased with it.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The parts arrived but, Houston, we have a problem. I get no video and the error display goes from 88 -> CF and hangs. Supposedly, that's supposed to mean a memory problem. I tried all three sticks in DIMM 0, 2, 4, one stick in DIMM 0, and one stick in DIMM 1. All produce the same error message.

Intel Core i7 920
DFI DK X58 mobo
3 x 2 GiB OCZ Gold DDR3-1600

Any ideas?

I guess I'll start pulling crap off of it.