Core i7: Now or Later?

FordGT90Concept · Feb 21, 2009

I ruled the current EVGA out because it doesn't have PS/2 keyboard/mouse.

I will be ordering it tomorrow so if it isn't coming out this week, it isn't worth waiting for.

Solaris17 · Feb 21, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
I ruled the current EVGA out because it doesn't have PS/2 keyboard/mouse.

I will be ordering it tomorrow so if it isn't coming out this week, it isn't worth waiting for.

ahh i see then i reccomend not going evga. id say DFI is the way to go

FordGT90Concept · Feb 21, 2009

Okay, I think I will be ordering it tonight (inside of 3 hours) instead of tomorrow so, unless I hear any objections, I'll go with the DFI.

FordGT90Concept · Feb 22, 2009

Ordered DFI DK board, 3 x 2 GiB OCZ Gold, and Core i7 920.

PaulieG · Feb 22, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
Any objections?

I have the DFI DK x58. Great board so far. Don't buy it at the 'egg though, it's cheaper here. There is also a combo offer with the 920 and 6GB of DDR3 for $580.

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-DKX58T3

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

my dfi's lan port just died.

SystemViper · Feb 22, 2009

damn those DFI's don't last too long, that is the second person I know that has had p[roblems i nthe last 3 days.

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

mine wasnt really a dfi problem. the board works fine but the lan is dead. no lights or anything.

its pathetic though... this board worked 4 days and now its going back.

good thing i have a new board in the mail already for this week.

PaulieG · Feb 22, 2009

SystemViper said:
damn those DFI's don't last too long, that is the second person I know that has had p[roblems i nthe last 3 days.

Meh, its the first run with all these x58 boards. You're bound to have a few duds. I've heard of numerous dying Asus and EVGA x58 boards.

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

how do i get 2 duds in a week?

Solaris17 · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
how do i get 2 duds in a week?

bad shipment or batch

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

from 2 different companies?

SystemViper · Feb 22, 2009

You beat on your boards :rockout:

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

my boards are mint. i baby them. ever bought anything from me? the shit is mint... im tellin ya.

Solaris17 · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
from 2 different companies?

same chipset? pull the NB off and check on the week etc.

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

gah... i must explain...

1. asus p6t6 ws revolution- started acting up, reflashed bios to 0311(newest), started telling me that i had an unsupported cpu, ran vantage once, reboot at same settings, no post ever again. cpu died too.

2. dfi DK x58 t3eh6- worked amazingly well for 4 days straight running BOINC and folding on gtx295's. this morning i reboot to install vista sp1 and lan port was gone. reinstalled os, drivers, reflashed bios, reset bios, nothing. lan port dead, everything else is fine.

also i must add.... this is my 4th i7 920 now. seems to be the best of them all.

AND... these crucial d9jnl sticks are hands down the best i've ever had.

SystemViper · Feb 22, 2009

yea, that ram was a good call....

sneekypeet · Feb 22, 2009

Did you fart on them as usual?

Solaris17 · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
gah... i must explain...

1. asus p6t6 ws revolution- started acting up, reflashed bios to 0311(newest), started telling me that i had an unsupported cpu, ran vantage once, reboot at same settings, no post ever again. cpu died too.

2. dfi DK x58 t3eh6- worked amazingly well for 4 days straight running BOINC and folding on gtx295's. this morning i reboot to install vista sp1 and lan port was gone. reinstalled os, drivers, reflashed bios, reset bios, nothing. lan port dead, everything else is fine.

also i must add.... this is my 4th i7 920 now. seems to be the best of them all.

AND... these crucial d9jnl sticks are hands down the best i've ever had.

intresting have you tested your PSU for spikes?

PaulieG · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
gah... i must explain...

1. asus p6t6 ws revolution- started acting up, reflashed bios to 0311(newest), started telling me that i had an unsupported cpu, ran vantage once, reboot at same settings, no post ever again. cpu died too.

2. dfi DK x58 t3eh6- worked amazingly well for 4 days straight running BOINC and folding on gtx295's. this morning i reboot to install vista sp1 and lan port was gone. reinstalled os, drivers, reflashed bios, reset bios, nothing. lan port dead, everything else is fine.

also i must add.... this is my 4th i7 920 now. seems to be the best of them all.

AND... these crucial d9jnl sticks are hands down the best i've ever had.

I gotta ask fit, if you've gone through 4 i7's already and 2 boards in a short amount of time, have you given thought to a bad PSU? I mean it it HIGHLY unusual to get 3 bad CPU's. It's kinda sounding like overvoltage.

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

just got a brand new psu between boards. the psu is STRONG as hell. enermax revolution85+ 1250watt.

DMM confirms voltage is perfect.

the whole damn setup is run from a power conditioner. no spikes ever. the power could go out and it'll run for a day solid before loosing power to the pc.

trt740 · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
just got a brand new psu between boards. the psu is STRONG as hell. enermax revolution85+ 1250watt.

DMM confirms voltage is perfect.

the whole damn setup is run from a power conditioner. no spikes ever. the power could go out and it'll run for a day solid before loosing power to the pc.

Thats strange as hell how about something in the case shorting out your system..

Solaris17 · Feb 22, 2009

Fitseries3 said:
just got a brand new psu between boards. the psu is STRONG as hell. enermax revolution85+ 1250watt.

DMM confirms voltage is perfect.

the whole damn setup is run from a power conditioner. no spikes ever. the power could go out and it'll run for a day solid before loosing power to the pc.

case grounding anything like that? no bad wire splits?

Fitseries3 · Feb 22, 2009

Paulieg said:
I gotta ask fit, if you've gone through 4 i7's already and 2 boards in a short amount of time, have you given thought to a bad PSU? I mean it it HIGHLY unusual to get 3 bad CPU's. It's kinda sounding like overvoltage.

CPU...

1. sold because i got a new one.

2. sold to get #3 but was beginning to act up. never got over 1.5v.

3. died from p6t6 death. rmaed to intel and got....

4. best chip yet. runs 4.5ghz at 1.47v HT enabled.

PaulieG · Feb 22, 2009

It's just really odd to kill 3 (or maybe just 2) cpu's and 2 boards in a couple of weeks. It's natural to start looking at the common denominators

System Name	BY-2021
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (65w eco profile)
Motherboard	MSI B550 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Scythe Mugen (rev 5)
Memory	2 x Kingston HyperX DDR4-3200 32 GiB
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro, Seagate Exos X20 TB 7200 RPM
Display(s)	Nixeus NX-EDG274K (3840x2160@144 DP) + Samsung SyncMaster 906BW (1440x900@60 HDMI-DVI)
Case	Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ USB 3.0 5.25" bay + USB 3.2 (A+C) 3.5" bay
Audio Device(s)	Realtek ALC1150, Micca OriGen+
Power Supply	Enermax Platimax 850w
Mouse	Nixeus REVEL-X
Keyboard	Tesoro Excalibur
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Benchmark Scores	Faster than the tortoise; slower than the hare.

System Name	Rocinante
Processor	I9 14900KS
Motherboard	EVGA z690 Dark KINGPIN (modded BIOS)
Cooling	EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB
Memory	64GB Gskill Trident Z5 DDR5 6000 @6400
Video Card(s)	MSI SUPRIM Liquid X 4090
Storage	1x 500GB 980 Pro \| 1x 1TB 980 Pro \| 1x 8TB Corsair MP400
Display(s)	Odyssey OLED G9 G95SC
Case	Lian Li o11 Evo Dynamic White
Audio Device(s)	Moondrop S8's on Schiit Hel 2e
Power Supply	Bequiet! Power Pro 12 1500w
Mouse	Lamzu Atlantis mini (White)
Keyboard	Monsgeek M3 Lavender, Akko Crystal Blues
VR HMD	Quest 3
Software	Windows 11
Benchmark Scores	I dont have time for that.

System Name	BY-2021
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (65w eco profile)
Motherboard	MSI B550 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Scythe Mugen (rev 5)
Memory	2 x Kingston HyperX DDR4-3200 32 GiB
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro, Seagate Exos X20 TB 7200 RPM
Display(s)	Nixeus NX-EDG274K (3840x2160@144 DP) + Samsung SyncMaster 906BW (1440x900@60 HDMI-DVI)
Case	Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ USB 3.0 5.25" bay + USB 3.2 (A+C) 3.5" bay
Audio Device(s)	Realtek ALC1150, Micca OriGen+
Power Supply	Enermax Platimax 850w
Mouse	Nixeus REVEL-X
Keyboard	Tesoro Excalibur
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Benchmark Scores	Faster than the tortoise; slower than the hare.

System Name	BY-2021
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (65w eco profile)
Motherboard	MSI B550 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Scythe Mugen (rev 5)
Memory	2 x Kingston HyperX DDR4-3200 32 GiB
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro, Seagate Exos X20 TB 7200 RPM
Display(s)	Nixeus NX-EDG274K (3840x2160@144 DP) + Samsung SyncMaster 906BW (1440x900@60 HDMI-DVI)
Case	Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ USB 3.0 5.25" bay + USB 3.2 (A+C) 3.5" bay
Audio Device(s)	Realtek ALC1150, Micca OriGen+
Power Supply	Enermax Platimax 850w
Mouse	Nixeus REVEL-X
Keyboard	Tesoro Excalibur
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Benchmark Scores	Faster than the tortoise; slower than the hare.

Processor	5800x(2)/5700g/5600x/5600g/2700x/1700x/1700
Motherboard	MSI B550 Carbon (2)/ MSI z490 Unify/Asus Strix B550-F/MSI B450 Tomahawk (3)
Cooling	EK AIO 360 (2)/EK AIO 240, Arctic Cooling Freezer II 280/EVGA CLC 280/Noctua D15/Cryorig M9(2)
Memory	32 GB Ballistix Elite/32 GB TridentZ/16GB Mushkin Redline Black/16 GB Dominator
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix RTX3060/EVGA 970(2)/Asus 750 ti/Old Quadros
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB/WD Black M.2 NVMe 500GB/Adata 500gb NVMe
Display(s)	Acer 1080p 22"/ (3) Samsung 22" 1080p
Case	(2) Lian Li Lancool II Mesh/Corsair 4000D /Phanteks Eclipse 500a/Be Quiet Pure Base 500/Bones of HAF
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850G(2)/EVGA Supernova GT 650w/Phantek Amps 750w/Seasonic Focus 750w
Mouse	Generic Black wireless (5)
Keyboard	Generic Black wireless (5)
Software	Win 10/Ubuntu

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Processor	Intel i7 13700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Maximus Z690 HERO EVA Edition
Cooling	ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 with Noctua Industrial Fans
Memory	PAtriot Viper Elite RGB 96GB @ 6000MHz.
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Storage	Addlink S95 M.2 PCIe GEN 4x4 2TB
Display(s)	Asus ROG SWIFT OLED PG42UQ
Case	Thermaltake Core P3 TG
Audio Device(s)	Realtek on board > Sony Receiver > Cerwin Vegas
Power Supply	be quiet DARK POWER PRO 12 1500W
Mouse	ROG STRIX Impact Electro Punk
Keyboard	ROG STRIX Scope TKL Electro Punk
Software	Windows 11

System Name	Apple Bite
Processor	Intel I5
Motherboard	Apple
Memory	40gb of DDR 4 2700
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 500
Storage	Fusion Drive 1 TB
Display(s)	27 Inch IMac late 2017

Core i7: Now or Later?

Upgrade now or later?

No sense waiting for technology (now).

Wait for Core i7 D0 stepping (mid-late March).

Wait for x58 B3 stepping (mid-late April).

Indifferent.

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