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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I like Gigabyte too, but just a warning, there MAY be some odd compatibility issues with a few Gigabyte boards and Windows 7 at the moment. I happened across a thread like that yesterday. It was some odd error that caused an issue because of a part they used... can't remember much more than that. You might want to check around specifically on the board you are considering before you buy.
By the way, the i5 just costs about 240,000. That's pretty darned good. As of 2 days ago, Korea hadn't seen the AMD price cuts yet. AMD was forced to cut its prices for the i5 because it was kicking their top chips and costing less.
Honestly... if I were you and you were considering the I5 for now, and the I7 later... I'd just go with a cheaper p55 board and upgrade both the board and chip later, if you want. The I7's will be cheaper, and the boards will be cheaper by then, too. |
I've heard that the i& boards aren't going to drop in price very much because of the manufacturing cost of the triple channel ram; cheap to implement on cpus, but expensive to implement on PCBs. This was apparently the reason they just did dual channel for i5.
The problem with i5 is that it is also an upgrade dead end; six core is not going to be available on that socket. |
On an Intel set-up, I don't believe in upgrading just the CPU. When buying Intel, I fully intend to spend more money up front, use the machine for at least 3 years, then basically build a new machine.
With AMD, I consider upgrading an option (such as with my wife's machine). You can get away with a cheaper AMD machine now, and just upgrade the CPU later... at a better value.
I never considered upgrading just a CPU as cost-effective with Intel, considering the advances that come along every so often. Their CPU's are just too expensive, and they keep changing sockets. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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Larabee before 6 cores. Please.
We are getting to the point of diminishing returns in terms of CPU power. (Cripes...I have 4 cores running at 3GHz each already...) Intel know this and are moving on to other aspects of computing, such as discreet graphics. Features baby....bring on the ad-ons to make CPUs attractive. Hopefully they will be thinking in complimentary terms regarding on-die and physical cards.
The whole i series; big deal in terms of actual CPU architecture; its the AMD-esque memory controller that makes it powerful.
But yes, Intel change sockets a lot, compared to AMD. |
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