Upgrade from Bloomfield to Gulftown?

mab1376 · May 20, 2011

I currently have an i7 930, I'm thinking of upgrading to a 970. My 930 is running stable at 3.8GHz. Factoring in the overclocking potential and price of the 970, do you think its worth it to upgrade to a 970?

let me know your thoughts and opinions.

Thanks!

timta2 · May 20, 2011

What voltage are you running your 930 at? From what I've seen the 930 seems to overclock as well as the 940-970's. Of course there are exceptions. The extra cores might be nice if you can use them. I have a similar setup and it wouldn't be worth it to me. I don't do any folding or video stuff so the extra cores would spend most of their time at idle even when gaming.

mab1376 · May 20, 2011

Mostly I just use my pc for gaming. Can any games utilize 6 cores?

My CPU runs at 1.325v with 1.5v ram

SonDa5 · May 20, 2011

If you need 6 cores then go for it.

To me it's not worth the money considering the 970 price is still over $500.

If the I7-970 were in the mid $300 price range then I would get one myself.

Over_Lord · May 20, 2011

mab1376 said:
I currently have an i7 930, I'm thinking of upgrading to a 970. My 930 is running stable at 3.8GHz. Factoring in the overclocking potential and price of the 970, do you think its worth it to upgrade to a 970?

let me know your thoughts and opinions.

Thanks!

if you only game, no point.

LDNL · May 20, 2011

If you only game theres really no point in even having an i7. Youve already got 4+4 cores and no game still has supports for that many cores or shows no gain from having them. Switched from an i7 to a i5 with higher clocks which pretty much beat it in everything exept cpu benchmarks

lilhasselhoffer · May 20, 2011

mab1376 said:
Mostly I just use my pc for gaming. Can any games utilize 6 cores?

My CPU runs at 1.325v with 1.5v ram

Simple answer is no. No current generation game uses more than 4 cores. Bloomfield is the best price to performance for gaming in the 1366 socket.

6 core chips, beyond costing nearly $1000, are only for processing intensive multi-threaded programs. Unless you edit lots of video, or are running a substantial computational load (servers, engineering, or mathematics), skip Gulftown.

Based on pricing estimates, you'll be able to put that $1000 toward a new sandybridge enthusiast level 2011 socket processor (6 core unlocked) and mobo by the end of this year. Save the money! (keep in mind pricing is estimated, check after Computex at the end of this month/start of next month for firmer pricing)

xenocide · May 20, 2011

Why would you pay $500 for a like 3-5% performance gain? For half that you could get another GPU and see like a 50%~ performance gain (on average) in games and for the same $500 could switch to SB and see a rather sizable performance gain (primarily) in CPU-dependant games.

mab1376 · May 20, 2011

xenocide said:
Why would you pay $500 for a like 3-5% performance gain? For half that you could get another GPU and see like a 50%~ performance gain (on average) in games and for the same $500 could switch to SB and see a rather sizable performance gain (primarily) in CPU-dependant games.

I'm thinking when BF3 comes out I'll just get a second video card.

Anusha · May 20, 2011

mab1376 said:
I'm thinking when BF3 comes out I'll just get a second video card.

then wait on either upgrade.

you won't see any improvement with 6 cores in games.

FreedomEclipse · May 21, 2011

If you really have to upgrade. use the money you would have spent on the gulftown and grab a i5 2500k setup and overclock the tits off it. that CPU will give the gulftown a serious run for the money. In most reviews the overclocked 2500k beats down the gulftown in almost all the tests except when it came to video encoding. there wasnt a HUGE difference between the 2 (about 200-300 points in bit-techs review) so the 2500k is a better investment

ZenZimZaliben · May 21, 2011

mab1376 said:
I currently have an i7 930, I'm thinking of upgrading to a 970. My 930 is running stable at 3.8GHz. Factoring in the overclocking potential and price of the 970, do you think its worth it to upgrade to a 970?

let me know your thoughts and opinions.

Thanks!

Get yourself another 5870 for xfire, or get a SSD for you OS/Program drive. Either of those, or both will have more of an increase, and cost about the same.

Used 5870 = 170 - 190
SSD = 130 - 400

Either way you could get another 5870 and a SSD and be under the cost of a i7 970 and get way more performance.

You have the exact system as me. Your UD7 supports SATA 6gb. Get a SSD.

BarbaricSoul · May 24, 2011

ZenZimZaliben said:
Get yourself another 5870 for xfire, or get a SSD for you OS/Program drive. Either of those, or both will have more of an increase, and cost about the same.

Used 5870 = 170 - 190
SSD = 130 - 400

Either way you could get another 5870 and a SSD and be under the cost of a i7 970 and get way more performance.

You have the exact system as me. Your UD7 supports SATA 6gb. Get a SSD.

I agree 100%

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Upgrade from Bloomfield to Gulftown?

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