New PC, i7 920 D0 or 2600k?

[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 ?