New PC, i7 920 D0 or 2600k?

[Johnny87au]

Well let me dad use my macbook pro and gave him the headphones to use because he loves them , He left the macbook on while he went for lunch and left the headphones on the bed and my little nephew tripped over the cord whilst i grabbed the laptop, pretty much ed the jack...

[Ket]

Ouch. Death by kids sucks. Mainly because they can't pay for what they break

[Johnny87au]

haha extremely true!! I contacted a retailer here in AUS and its gonna cost me like 300$ just to get it fixed because the labor rate is like 70$ per hour blah blah blah

[Ket]

Thats crazy. I'd sooner shove a hot poker up their arse. Materials will only cost like $20 tops I'd think, and maybe half hour to fix it. At most you would be looking at $100, not $300. By any chance was the person who quoted you that smoking crack?

[Holzberg]

When I built my current PC back in 2000, the SoundBlaster soundcard had an extra piece that fit into a 5.25 bay which had volume controls and most importantly a headphone and microphone jack. Although, one of the jacks never worked correctly I was hoping the newer ones would. That is why I chose SoundBlaster in the first place. I don't believe the Xonar DX comes with the front display.

It sucks having to reconnect the cords at times.

PS: Do any of you know what the price of the Extreme6 was?
I found one here: http://www.jpcparts.com/page/idf.asp....3198zzxKyyZpf
for $371. But I am not sure if that is a lot more expensive than what they were on Amazon, Newegg or TigerDirect.
Edit: I also found it here: http://www.ambry.com/page/search_fro....3198zzxKyyZpf
for $367.

Edit Again: Just found it tha Extreme6 should be around $216. These are way over priced.

Also, does the Extreme6 handle Tri-SLI? I am only planning dual now, but just wondering for in the future. I know it handles Quad, but from what I remember about Quad SLI is it was like 2 cards that had 2 gpus on each or something like that. I don't think it was actually 4 cards, but maybe that has changed.

[Ket]

Extreme6 has 3x PCI-E graphics slots, I wouldn't bother with anything more than "normal" SLI though, scaling isn't that good beyond SLI. I'm not sure on exact prices for the Extreme6 where you are, but in the UK its £150, which probably means $200 or so is about right. As for the Soundblaster.. they were good way back around 98-2000, they started to get crap at a alarming rate after that. Xonar soundcards by quite a way in most cases offer superior audio quality.

[Holzberg]

Do the Xonar have a front bracket or something for the the mic and headphones? It is nice to plug them in the front so you can unplug them and listen to your speakers. Or maybe you can get these third party. I suppose I could do what I have done in the past and get extensions which plug in the back and then just plug into the extensions.

[wesleys_dad]

Dude if your running a 920 x58 system you would be nuts to think that SB is going to be any kind of noticeably faster....your going from a highline system to a mainstream system...wanna upgrade wait for socket 2011 in the 4th qtr....x58 to 1155 is a sideways slide..hesitant to call it an upgrade.....
unless money is plentiful and your looking for something to do forget this swap.....

[Johnny87au]

Dude if your running a 920 x58 system you would be nuts to think that SB is going to be any kind of noticeably faster....your going from a highline system to a mainstream system...wanna upgrade wait for socket 2011 in the 4th qtr....x58 to 1155 is a sideways slide..hesitant to call it an upgrade.....
unless money is plentiful and your looking for something to do forget this swap.....

+1 to that, sticky?

[Holzberg]

Dude if your running a 920 x58 system you would be nuts to think that SB is going to be any kind of noticeably faster....your going from a highline system to a mainstream system...wanna upgrade wait for socket 2011 in the 4th qtr....x58 to 1155 is a sideways slide..hesitant to call it an upgrade.....
unless money is plentiful and your looking for something to do forget this swap.....

And what if this is not a swap, but a new build? From what others are saying, going with the SB is better.

Also, from what I have read, the 2011 will cost the same as a 970 or 980. No way will I spend that much for a processor. Too me then, the 2600k of the 2xxx processors is equivalent to the 920 of the 9xx processors.

[shoota]

dude just get a SB setup. It's blazingly fast, easy to setup, cool-running, like already mentioned it's a no-brainer. The stupid i7-9x0 cpus are super hot, i.e. not fun to play with unless on water. Get a high end video card.
I'm pretty sure the Xonar has a front panel audio header so you can use the built in jacks of your case.

Your only real dilemma is what to do about the motherboard.

[Lanek]

Dude if your running a 920 x58 system you would be nuts to think that SB is going to be any kind of noticeably faster....your going from a highline system to a mainstream system...wanna upgrade wait for socket 2011 in the 4th qtr....x58 to 1155 is a sideways slide..hesitant to call it an upgrade.....
unless money is plentiful and your looking for something to do forget this swap.....

I will said it's a side move if you use an 980x OC to 4.2+ ghz... not vs the quadcore I7 1366. ( i was using a 950 )

Lol SB are damn fast, and specially they overclock without effort to 5ghz on air and maybe 4.8 for the really bad chips ( need really be unlucky)... lol benching at 5 - 5.4ghz on air cooling is just a little dream for most I7 users... Before you needed Dry ICe or good SS and good chips for that. i run stable 24/7 at 5ghz.

Cinebench 11.5 @ 5ghz ( or 4.9 don't remember ) ( an I7 980x OC@4.4ghz do something like 8.91 on this bench - Edit: Sam have make me check again, 8.91 is at stock for 980x )


They match 6cores CPU (970-980x) at 4.2ghz under Highly Multithreaded appliccations, and on non multithreaded applis, they completely smoke them with stock speed ( 3.4ghz/3.8 turbo ).

actually, they cost less of a 950, you can find cheap motherboard, or invest on high end mb. And specially when does 2011 and new high end socket cpu will be released ?

[Sam_oslo]

I will said it's a side move if you use an 980x OC to 4.2+ ghz... not vs the quadcore I7 1366. ( i was using a 950 )

Lol SB are damn fast, and specially they overclock without effort to 5ghz on air and maybe 4.8 for the really bad chips ( need really be unlucky)... lol benching at 5 - 5.4ghz on air cooling is just a little dream for most I7 users... Before you needed Dry ICe or good SS and good chips for that. i run stable 24/7 at 5ghz.

Cinebench 11.5 @ 5ghz ( or 4.9 don't remember ) ( an I7 980x OC@4.4ghz do something like 8.91 on this bench )
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5169/cinebench.png[/IMG]

They match 6cores CPU (970-980x) at 4.2ghz under Highly Multithreaded appliccations, and on non multithreaded applis, they completely smoke them with stock speed ( 3.4ghz/3.8 turbo ).

actually, they cost less of a 950, you can find cheap motherboard, or invest on high end mb. And specially when does 2011 and new high end socket cpu will be released ?

2600k is good, but it won't match a 6-core in multi threated applications. Either in SB 11.5 or others.

Typical i7 980x @4.4GHz would scores ~11 in CB 11.5, where did you get that 8.91 from?. Besides, these new 980x/990x would OC close to 5GHz too, (at least with those kind of voltages you are pushing to get a typical SB to 5GHz).

[Lanek]

From I7 980X reviews and 2600K reviews when they was test it vs 980x OC.

Edit, my bad i have mismatch the value... it was at stock 8.91 pnts ....

But again it's why i had start my post, by it's a side move ( even a moveback if we exclude OC ), if you have a 980X or 970 .... outside the fact we speak about a 800dollars gpu vs a 300 dollars one.