Will you switch to Intel Core i7 ?

[v-zero]

I'm curious to see what AMD has coming down the pike....

Why would AMD's stuff need to pass through a fish before coming to market?

 

[hv43082]

I would update but I am broke so my choice is rather simple.

 

[trickson]

I maybe but for now I think I have enough power to run every thing I through at it !

 

[thoughtdisorder]

Why would AMD's stuff need to pass through a fish before coming to market?

"Coming down the pike"

lol! It's a saying! Means, what's coming......

Btw - I'm not a fanboi of AMD or Intel. I'm a fan of competition and better prices with better performance for the consumer. If AMD starts competing again, we all win.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

A damn good insight as to where the i7 chips stand against the current platforms available now from Intel and AMD.

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[Mussels]

Ah, but is your E8500 @ 4 Ghz faster than a Phenom 9950 @ 3.4 Ghz ?

Thats saying a lot considering in the UK the E8500 costs the same and sometimes more than the 9950.

Edit:

To answer the poll:

I think I'm gong to stick with my Athlon 3800+ X2 @ 2.7 Ghz, it plays my current games with extremely high frame rates and high detail coupled with 8 GBs of DDR2 and a 9600 GT. However next year in June/July 2009 I may decide to purchase a high end AMD such as the Phenom 9950 or see what the Deneb is offering. I have no intension of changing my motherboard to Intels or AM3 because I dont like the idea of changing my ram from DD2 to DDR3 just because Intel/AMD feel like change. Moving to AM3 will be expensive and moving to Intel would be stupidly expensive. I'm staying with AM2 for another 2 years.

with a mere 9600GT, you wont get any faster FPS by swapping CPU's, at least not until you get a faster video card.

 

[Darren]

with a mere 9600GT, you wont get any faster FPS by swapping CPU's, at least not until you get a faster video card.

Agreed.

To be honest I'm actually content with my current setup, I downloaded the Tombraider Underworld demo a couple of weeks back and I was able to achieve about 30-60 FPS with everything maxed out @ 1440x900 4x AA, I've got Call of Duty: World at War on pre-order and it should arrive on Friday, this is the game I plan on playing for the next year or so, so any GPU upgrades would be based around it.

If I feel that my GPU's performance is suffering by mid next year I wouldn't hesitate to sell off my 9600 GT for a ATI 4850/4850 X2 or the best bang for my buck GPU at the time.

 

[Mussels]

Agreed.

To be honest I'm actually content with my current setup, I downloaded the Tombraider Underworld demo a couple of weeks back and was able to achieve about 30-60 FPS with everything maxed out @ 1440x900 4x AA, I've got Call of Duty: World at War on pre-order and it should arrive on Friday, this is the game I plan on playing for the next year or so, so any GPU upgrades would be based around it.

If I feel that my GPU's performance is suffering by mid next year I wouldn't hesitate to sell off my 9600 GT for a ATI 4850/4850 X2 or the best bang for my buck GPU at the time.

yeah, i'll agree with you there. systems need balance, no point upgrading one bit while ignoring the rest... nehalem is for those who want crossfire/SLI

 

[SirMango]

I'll be sticking with AMD or Core 2 processors, whichever has a better chipset with an IGP

 

[niko084]

I'll stay with the core2 for awhile yet, see how the i7's really do, and what new comes of the core2's, then make my decision, as I hate burning money on something I'll be mad I bought.

 

[FudFighter]

I'll be sticking with AMD or Core 2 processors, whichever has a better chipset with an IGP

so for a while ur gonna be wanting 790gx, intels new GMA isnt ready for the market, give it at least 6 months b4 chipsets that have the new GMA are ready for the market, possably longer(I talk to friends who work for intel regularly, so this isnt just guess work)

currently its just not ready for market, drivers and such arent even close to ready, by the time it comes out, they HOPE it will be compeditive with amd's 780 and 790 sets, but no numbers yet.

 

[Konceptz]

waiting on the 32nm Core I7s

 

[v-zero]

"Coming down the pike"

lol! It's a saying! Means, what's coming......

Btw - I'm not a fanboi of AMD or Intel. I'm a fan of competition and better prices with better performance for the consumer. If AMD starts competing again, we all win.

Indeed, I was being sarcastic - however being English I do not ever describe a main road as a turnpike, so the saying here has lost most of its original meaning, and most people don't know its origins any more.

Also: HOORAY AMD TAKE THE LEAD!!!

 

[csplayer089]

amd for now

 

[Fitseries3]

WOOOT!!!

all my stuff will be here monday!!!!

 

[Castiel]

WOOOT!!!

all my stuff will be here monday!!!!

What did you all get? And you ordered Core i7 stuff already?

 

[Fitseries3]

yup....

i7 9XX hahahahaha... you'll see monday

asus rampage 2 extreme! woot MBP!

gkill 3x1gb ddr3 1600mhz kit/crucial 3x1gb d9gtr's/ocz reaper 3x1gb samsung HCF0's

 

[DaMulta]

U need to raid 4 SDD drives!!!!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-memoright,1926-10.html

Keep in mind this review is the slower ones

G.SKILL will do155mb/in the review they are only 115mb

Although we found that the sequential throughput does not reach the interface bandwidth, the next SSD generation will certainly have to use SATA/300 instead of SATA/150 to avoid the interface becoming a bottleneck. When we compared four Memoright 32-GB flash SSDs to four Seagate Savvio 10K.2 2.5” SAS drives and four 3.5” WD1500 Raptor drives, we found the conventional drives don’t stand a chance against the four Memoright device. A 0.2-ms access time is amazing for a RAID 0 array (vs. 7.4 ms for the Seagate Savvio 10K.2 and 8.5 ms for WD’s Raptors). The Memoright flash SSDs also sustain a minimum write transfer rate of 323 MB/s in RAID 0, while the Savvios drop to 199 MB/s and the Raptors go down to 177 MB/s. The read throughput of 450 MB/s for the Mtron quartet is equally impressive.

I only want you to have that fast system you are always wanting fitseries3

 

[Fitseries3]

im running 2 Vrap 300s in raid on a dell PERC 5/i. fast enough for now unless you can hook me up with the SSDs.

 

[eidairaman1]

Indeed, I was being sarcastic - however being English I do not ever describe a main road as a turnpike, so the saying here has lost most of its original meaning, and most people don't know its origins any more.

Also: HOORAY AMD TAKE THE LEAD!!!

just like the term at a cash register: "Ring it up"

 

[FudFighter]

alot of terms today people got no clue where they came from.

cluster fu*k for example was started in the military because the guys with teh clusters screwed up

i got a bunch more, but im honestly to lazy to post them and hyjack this thred

 

[christof139]

Star, and bird and leaf clusters, and FUBARS, the double-trouble-bubble bars and two-tone single bars, along with some no-stripe and single stripe E-men can indeed make for interesting clusterf---'s at times, just the same as most politicians and religious fanatics in no particlar order.

I will stick with the good cheap stuff: Athlon X2's including new 65nm Kumas, maybe X3's and X4's as the prices continue to drop, Intel E4700 and old P4 571 Prescott and P4 3.3GHz EE and maybe even PD 9xx, whatever is cheap and performs OK and I feel like spending a few $$$ on well below $200.

Cheap is good and works OK and no need for epenis overkill. If not running heavy duty apps. or playing FPS games just to see how many fps you can get then no need for super $$$ super compooter stuff. Although if you have the $$$ to spend OK and go ahead and have fun, as that is what a good part of all this is. Being cheap is also fun, usually, when it works that is.

Chris

 

[arsa_art]

Intel has recently released their latest upgrade in CPU technology. Is this something that is appealing for you? If yes, how fast will you get it, if no, what is holding you back?

First of all please let me know if Nahalems are stronger than the Q6600 or exactly Q9550
which I purchased 3 weeks ago, if there are Iwill get with no 2nd thought or hesitation,
please compare them sorry for disturbance.Best regards.

 

[Mussels]

First of all please let me know if Nahalems are stronger than the Q6600 or exactly Q9550
which I purchased 3 weeks ago, if there are Iwill get with no 2nd thought or hesitation,
please compare them sorry for disturbance.Best regards.

look it up yourself. this is a poll about them, not a review. The CPU's only came out for sale today.

 

[bigtye]

I would've liked to get one but right now I just can't afford the aussie prices for the new cpu's or motherboards so I built a core2 system instead.

Aust cpu prices

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=187_346

Aust mb prices

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=138_711_759

If I could, I would, but I can't

Tye