Intel Core i7 Review Thread

[Classic Satch]

For the mere mortal, what you have in your signature is going to be as good as you want for now. From what I have been able to gather, at real world settings most contemporary gaming will not show any benefits of Ci7 over a good C2Q (stock or overclock) or a good Phenom overclock. Most of the games are much more graphics heavy.

For Core i7 to do anything good with gaming you need to throw a lot of GPU muscle to move the FPS bar up.... Guru3D did a 4870X2 xFire (2 cards) and 280/260 SLI/tri-SLI run...

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i...rmance-review/

Unless you are planning on re-mortgaging your house for 3 280GTXs or 2 4870X2's, and run multiGPU, the Core i7 will not gain you much today.

However, you will be future-proofing your rig with a nice i7 right now. That's what I plan to do. I've waited long enough...