[Ulic Qel-Droma]

i have a corei7 920
6 gigs tri blahbalh ram
gtx 260 whatever.

running vista 64bit.

tell me, what the fuck can i do with this. i've had it since nov and i haven't really done anything crazy.

what would u do?

what crazy game that requires some crazy power can i run?
what about visuals or whatever... what new benchmark programs are there?

[impactX]

GTA4.

Doesn't matter, your computer didn't depreciate much at all because AMD sucks arse now and Intel hasn't been slashing the price on the I7.

[jmvdesign]

I love the i7's. I have one at home and had my boss get me one at work. We hooked up the i7 tower with our current render farm consisting of 4 quad core PC's for even more render power. Sometimes I can run and manage 5-6 3ds Max applications open and have it render multiple 300 DPI images (with the help of distributed rendering from the render farm) at the same time and it barely bogs down.

[MikeyStyle]

you can start folding (http://folding.stanford.edu/) if you have nothing else to do

[EDawg]

crysis

[Levitron]

Edit videos....I wish I had your computing power :( I need it for my videos and my 1st gen Pentium D dual core just doesn't cut it anymore.

[asian_XL]

ouch, after spending over $1800 on this system

[underscore]

massive amounts of porn. play as many orgies as you can at max volume.

[wouwou]

massive amounts of porn. play as many orgies as you can at max volume.

what he said

open up 50 videos at the same time, oh the sound effects lol

[Grandmaster TSE]

sounds like my computer :thumbsup:

[Dragon-88]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit will do good to your machine..

[roastpuff]

Edit videos....I wish I had your computing power :( I need it for my videos and my 1st gen Pentium D dual core just doesn't cut it anymore.

yeah, editing 1080p videos out of my Canon 5DMarkII is really taxing my current AMD x2 7750 system. :( Even with 4GB RAM and Win7 64-bit.

The 21MP RAW files don't help either.

[Eclypz]

Run 3DMark Vantage and see how well you do compared to others?

[SkinnyPupp]

Play Crysis and Warhead. That's what I did when I upgraded to Radeon 4890 :lol

BTW, AMD has pretty much caught up to the Core i7 920 believe it or not. The Phenom II 965 is fucking fast.

[Hehe]

^

Yeah, like a year after 920 became available? And in certain raw processing power benchs, PII965 is *just* up to the 920. We will see when AMD bring us some six-core stuff, until then, i7 4evar~~... :D

Back to the topic, like other suggested, run some 3D games with resource hungry engines like Crysis, GTA4... etc

Or else, if you are into video/photo, try some video/photo editing with premiere/photoshop... you would be begging for even more power... :)

I have pretty much the same setup as u do with SSD in raid 0 for running apps and when I edit 1080P videos from my Xacti HD2000, I still wish for some more.. but anything i7 except the 920 is crazy expensive for my taste... for now, a 920@3.6 would do the trick.

[SkinnyPupp]

Enough with the fanboy bullshit. Regardless of when these products were released, I am talking about right now.

[impactX]

I dont care about when they came out... I care about the value more.

Right now, I don't feel like paying that much for the I7, so I will definitely look into the 965.

Did you do a review on the Phenom II 965 yet?

[SkinnyPupp]

I am just finishing up testing right now. I redid all my benchmarks, using Windows 7 x64.

Then next week comes Core i5 and i7 8xx

[EDawg]

wooo that means price drops!!!
i7 here i come!!

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

massive amounts of porn. play as many orgies as you can at max volume.

sounds like fun

[impactX]

I am just finishing up testing right now. I redid all my benchmarks, using Windows 7 x64.

Then next week comes Core i5 and i7 8xx

Sweet! I will wait for your review on this :D

[asian_XL]

Core i5 is equivlent to what?

compare to Q9450 with i5, which one is faster?

[!LittleDragon]

I've been in the same boat before. Many years ago, I built me a 3.4ghz HT, 4 gigs of ram, GeForce 6800 and 4 raptor 150's in a Raid5. Pretty skookum gaming machine back then right? Cept I did nothing but surf the internet and maintain my porn sites with it. Today, I still use the same machine cept I replaced the loud ass drive array with a single 500gb.

[.Renn.Sport]

Core i5 is equivlent to what?

compare to Q9450 with i5, which one is faster?

i5 is faster then a Q9550 and cheaper.... but not too much improvement in gaming performance

mostly video encoding shit

[.Renn.Sport]

BTW, AMD has pretty much caught up to the Core i7 920 believe it or not. The Phenom II 965 is fucking fast.

not when u overclock the 920 to like 3.8Ghz- 4.0Ghz which most 920 is capable of doing, but phenom II should be a pretty decent overclocker too

[SkinnyPupp]

Keep in mind that the new i5 and i7 8xx use a different socket than the i7 9xx. I didn't even know this because I am still waiting for my package to arrive. At first I thought it was stupid, but it makes sense that they want to seperate the ultra hardcore stuff from mainstream. They tried that with X38 and x48 with the Extreme Edition processors, but that didn't work at all. Motherboard manufacturers just ran the P35 and P45 at the exact same timings as the Extreme chipsets, which kind of screwed Intel up.

On the bright side, P55 motherboards will be a lot cheaper than the X58's that are out there now. They should be priced "normally"

[unit]

Yeah, like a year after 920 became available? And in certain raw processing power benchs, PII965 is *just* up to the 920. We will see when AMD bring us some six-core stuff, until then, i7 4evar~~... :D


you're cheering on a cpu

[Hehe]

^
Dude, if you have any idea on the time I saved going through almost 800GB worth of HD video by moving to i7 from my iMac 2.4Ghz, you would be cheering too.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

Keep in mind that the new i5 and i7 8xx use a different socket than the i7 9xx. I didn't even know this because I am still waiting for my package to arrive. At first I thought it was stupid, but it makes sense that they want to seperate the ultra hardcore stuff from mainstream. They tried that with X38 and x48 with the Extreme Edition processors, but that didn't work at all. Motherboard manufacturers just ran the P35 and P45 at the exact same timings as the Extreme chipsets, which kind of screwed Intel up.

On the bright side, P55 motherboards will be a lot cheaper than the X58's that are out there now. They should be priced "normally"

yeah i always wondered, what does the new i5 i7 mean? i was pissed when i heard about it cuz i thought they were just killing what i have off. but i guess not?

im not gonna have to go get a new mobo when i wanna upgrade cpu's right!?

[SkinnyPupp]

They will continue to make i7 9xx, and they will probably always be faster than 8xx and i5

[Hehe]

yeah i always wondered, what does the new i5 i7 mean? i was pissed when i heard about it cuz i thought they were just killing what i have off. but i guess not?

im not gonna have to go get a new mobo when i wanna upgrade cpu's right!?

From what I've read, intel is ending the Pentium/Celeron once for all and making its way for i7/i5/i3 with i7 9xx being fastest (tri-channel DDR3, X58... etc), i7 8xx/i5 being mainstream (dual channel DDR3, P55) and i3 as the budget (think it as the old Celeron, just it's now called i3)

And we really need AMD to push something out fast... for intel to be pushing all the above classes with different CPU socket is just nuts

[FiveDime]

old school quad cores FTW!


Ill stick to my Dual Opteron 285's for a few more years.

[AzNightmare]

Try running multiple games at once.
Crysis maxed out is pretty intense though. At least it used to be... not sure what is the game they use for benchmarking now adays...

[SkinnyPupp]

AMD is coming out with a $100 quad core that is going to kill Intel's cheapest ($150) quad. Watch for it if you're in the market soon.

[Ikkaku]

awwwww fuck I just built my system too

phenom II 550 dual core unlocked to quad core :(

[SkinnyPupp]

awwwww fuck I just built my system too

phenom II 550 dual core unlocked to quad core :(
Well then you pretty much already have it then :lol

[w00tgasm]

awwwww fuck I just built my system too

phenom II 550 dual core unlocked to quad core :(

I'm still waiting on mine.
What's your build like?

[Ikkaku]

Phenom II 550 dual unlocked to quad
Gigabyte MA790XT
Antec 300 case
WD 1tb green
4gb patriot viper extreme DDR3 2x2GB
Antec earthwatt 500watt

just waiting for the gtx 260 to get cheaper, then I'll get one... for now I'm still using my old EN8500GT :lol

the quad cores seems stable, I did the balanced prime95 test for 6.5 hours without problems

[w00tgasm]

Phenom II 550 dual unlocked to quad
Gigabyte MA790XT
Antec 300 case
WD 1tb green
4gb patriot viper extreme DDR3 2x2GB
Antec earthwatt 500watt

just waiting for the gtx 260 to get cheaper, then I'll get one... for now I'm still using my old EN8500GT :lol

the quad cores seems stable, I did the balanced prime95 test for 6.5 hours without problems

That's very close to my list

# Coolermaster Storm Sniper Case
# Coolermaster Extreme Power Plus 500W PSU
# Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P
# AMD Phenom X2 550 Black Edition
# XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB
# 2qty – Patriot Extreme Performance Viper 4GB DDR3-1600
# 2qty – Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black SATA2 Drives
# Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE
# Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Heatsink

Actually the Patriot RAM sticks were too high profile for my heatsink, so I switched it to some Mushkin HP3 DDR3-1600...

I think I kinda went overkill with this build, but hey, better than drinking money HAHA

Did you pull the BIOS firmware from Giga-byte's website?

[Ikkaku]

I think I just installed it preconfigured lol

my friend had a list of the steppings that had success for the quad unlocking, so we ended up going to 2 NCIX's to find the right one. The one with my stepping had a 3/3 success rate I believe. His was 7/7 before his unlocked succesfully :thumbsup:

I am very curious about the 4870, my friends told me if I didn't want to save up for the GTX 260, I should just go for the 4870. The biggest problem is that I heard that card ran HOT because of it's raw power, and the fans got a bit noisy if the fans were turned up.

[w00tgasm]

I'll run some benches when I get it in.
I paid NCIX to assemble my PC since I wouldn't be able to use it if i built it anyways since I'm still waiting on an OS and new monitor LOL.

I'll run some benchmarks on the Videocard if you'd like and monitor the temps... But I don't think there are many games out there that'll make the card run HARD...

[roastpuff]

4870's no longer the top-tier card. It can be run hard by Crysis at high-resolutions with the AA/AF turned up for sure, and other games will tax it. That's why I skipped over the 4870 and went for the 4890 1GB during a NCIX surprise special.

I have the XFX 4890OC, and let me tell you that when that sucker spools up, it gets LOUD, hehe. I'm ok with it because I use headphones most of the time, but I might move to an aftermarket cooling solution that has quieter fans.

When doing Assassin's Creed, Fallout 3, etc, the card can sometimes get quite hot (~65c-75c) especially if the game isn't optimized very well (HL2 mods) but that's pretty normal operating temps considering how ungood my case ventilation is.

[roastpuff]

Well then you pretty much already have it then :lol

Skinny, when is this budget quad supposed to show up? I'm interested in upgrading my x2 7750BE to a quad for graphics/photo/video processing.

Just jumped on the $99 PCP&C Quad 750W PSU deal at NCIX too. :thumbsup:

[SkinnyPupp]

They come out on Sept 16. (they will be $99 and $116 in the US)

[roastpuff]

They come out on Sept 16. (they will be $99 and $116 in the US)

Hm, how will it be performance-wise to the II 940BE?

[SkinnyPupp]

We'll have to wait and see ;)

[.Renn.Sport]

new setup - office workstation
Core i5 750 - $1599
EVGA P55 - $1599
ADATA DDR3 2GB x4 - 960
EVGA GeForce GTX 275 FTW - $2199
Western Digital WD10EADS-390/BOX -$600
Corsair HX750 - $1130
Antec Three Hundred $399
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Intel socket LGA775) $530

[unit]

^is it just me or are your prices extremely fucked up

[wouwou]

^is it just me or are your prices extremely fucked up

the prices are probably tips included.

[Grandmaster TSE]

wtf prices

[underscore]

Hong Kong prices I think

[.Renn.Sport]

Hong Kong prices I think

finally someone actually uses their brain!

[underscore]

^ haha. I'm not sure what the exchange is but looks like you could just divide by 10?

[Grandmaster TSE]

divide by 6 or 7 approx for CDN

[Grandmaster TSE]

after doing conversion, I pay around the same prize for my comp

[unit]

finally someone actually uses their brain!

may be news to you, but not all of RS is chinese

[underscore]

^ yeah but dude I'm white as hell and I got it. plus his location says HK...

[SkinnyPupp]

I forgot to mention, my Lynnfield Core i7 Core i5 (http://www.hardcoreware.net/intel-core-i7-core-i5-lynnfield) Review is up.

[roastpuff]

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3638&p=1

This is damn impressive! I'm looking forward to ordering this from a local retailer. :D

[hotong]

crisis