Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
thats not true, i upgraded from a cheap athlonxp system to a cheap 754 system and the performance boost was quite noticeable... and going from 939 to c2d was quite a boost as well...

going from p3 to athlon or p4 was a big boost
going from athlon to athlonxp was a minor boost
going from athlon xp to k8 was a big boost
going from k8 to k10 was a minor boost
going from k10 to k10.5 was a minor boost
going from core2 to corei7 was a minor boost

lately the perf boosts by new cpus are smaller and smaller... cause they push for more and more cores which dont help in most scenarios, and most software is now written for mainstream, to run on as many systems as possible, even 5 year old ones... i guess those are the reasons...

there was a notable performance boost in my experience...
but yes, its not like you ever needed the latest gen cpu to really do something you couldnt do before...

yeah but what will sata3 and usb3 be good for i ask you... running several ssds in raid maybe, but who does that? and will it really make a notable diference?
and usb3... faster external hdds, but do we really need that?


LOL... define "boost"


saaya, you always seem to be jaded and argue from a max/max point of view, instead of the more logical and generalized min/max aspect.

Bro.... it's gets old. If we are talking strictly about PERFORMANCE, then yes. But we are not. We are looking at the whole package and there is nothing shameful or wrong with the P55/57 platform. Dollar for Dollar, it out performs the X58.

But again, thats all before you touch the bios.... (again) which 99% of the people have no idea what that is.




I just don't understand your arguments against the LGA1156. Look at some of the benches... the i7 850 performs!


And yes, it's cheaper... so what?