Core i7 - a very bad investment for most people

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

Isn't it all a bit to soon to judge like this... Intel is going into a new direction and things have to be adapted (way of OC'ing, new rams, maybe better implementation by game coders and programs,...)
Not everybody here's a gamer, I game too, but I fold, encode and bench for fun... and if I have to buy a new system, I7 could tempt me alot... but I'm awaiting some price drops on rams and hopefully mobo's... but 250 euro's for a high end mobo is doable to me...
This is a launch man, prices will settle ( hopefully we will get this financial crisis sorted as prices have gone mad here in Belgium, +30% on some hardware ) newer CPU's will appear, cheaper mobo's, better overclockability, etc...

I agree it could have been a revolution but it's more of an evolution , but give it time and the die hards will find the sweetspot(s) for sure...

And if you want to have the latest and the best, prepare to cash out : when core2 duo was launched not many could afford an E6600/6700 most users went for E6300 and E6400... and really for 300 bucks you get loads of power here... too bad it's DDR3 only...

I'm following GAR's motivation... with my current hardware I don't have anything to worry about and can easily wait till mid/end next year to step up... we are spoiled by so much powerfull hardware... thing is you have to ask a g33k to know what's best for your needs...

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very well said!!!

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Originally Posted by Katzenschleuder

So you are paying over a thousand dollars just to not wait a few minutes on a video encoding process to finish once a month?

I rather invest into another GPU, so I will have a ~80% higher frame rate in nearly all games - all the time.

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where is the logic in that? What if the other guy doesn't play games? Then he would give a rats ass about how many frame rates he'll get in games.


Just because you would rater invest in making your games run faster, doesn't mean that's why everyone buys a PC and overclocks their computers.

What about for the guy like me, who would be upgrading from a Socket 939 Dual Core Opteron Setup? What kind of performance gains would I be seeing out of this? Assuming that I'd be staying with my current video card for comparison (nVidia 7900 GT, I know it's old.)?

EDIT: What I mean is, would it be worth my time going this route? As I have to buy new memory, motherboard & chip anyways. I might as well go with this than, right? I'm aware DDR3 is more expensive, but would that be the only spot where this upgrade would be more burdening on the wallet than the current offerings? Note: I would also be making a video card upgrade at that time as well.