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- Jan 27, 2006
OK guys. i know i made a thread like this in the past but i want to be FOR SURE on what to get.
I just sold my Macbook Pro 13" (late 2009) on ebay so im super happy to say im upgrading my computers E6750 to a I7
Now i REALLY want a gulftown, but i wont have 900+ to dump on a cpu. BUT i wanted to know if i didn't skip over anything new with these new Clarksfield and Arrandale cpu's that came out. i know these are I5 and I3's and they are Dual cores with HT, turbo and dedicated graphics. BUT i know they they are 32nm. Gulftown is going to be 32nm but i wanted to know if they are going to make a re-fresh of the current 920 or 860 I7's. The 920 came out fall of 08 and the 860 came out in September of 09. I'm more leaning in getting a 920 cause of the higher memory bandwidth and later compatibility of the cpu socket BUT i don't want to dump 600+ on a new cpu, motherboard, and ram if a die re-fresh is coming out soon.
it seems weird that they did not make a 32nm i5 quad or 32nm i7 yet. will these re-fresh's come later this year under the Sandy bridge name?
now 860 vs 920. i've keep on getting mix opinions saying that the 860 is a tad faster at some benches. i really dont care about very small performance hits. My main reason im going I7 is that i do allot of video encoding (1080p blu ray rips to MKV) and currently it takes 8+ hours to do a full 2 hours video and want to chop that down. I was thinking the higher memory bandwidth Bloomfield offers would help out with this. I will also be gaming
well what do you guys think.
also what motherboards would you recommend. I've been looking at the EVGA boards and i like what they offer. I do plan on overclocking this (want to get at least 4.0ghz with whatever cpu i end up getting.)
I just sold my Macbook Pro 13" (late 2009) on ebay so im super happy to say im upgrading my computers E6750 to a I7
Now i REALLY want a gulftown, but i wont have 900+ to dump on a cpu. BUT i wanted to know if i didn't skip over anything new with these new Clarksfield and Arrandale cpu's that came out. i know these are I5 and I3's and they are Dual cores with HT, turbo and dedicated graphics. BUT i know they they are 32nm. Gulftown is going to be 32nm but i wanted to know if they are going to make a re-fresh of the current 920 or 860 I7's. The 920 came out fall of 08 and the 860 came out in September of 09. I'm more leaning in getting a 920 cause of the higher memory bandwidth and later compatibility of the cpu socket BUT i don't want to dump 600+ on a new cpu, motherboard, and ram if a die re-fresh is coming out soon.
it seems weird that they did not make a 32nm i5 quad or 32nm i7 yet. will these re-fresh's come later this year under the Sandy bridge name?
now 860 vs 920. i've keep on getting mix opinions saying that the 860 is a tad faster at some benches. i really dont care about very small performance hits. My main reason im going I7 is that i do allot of video encoding (1080p blu ray rips to MKV) and currently it takes 8+ hours to do a full 2 hours video and want to chop that down. I was thinking the higher memory bandwidth Bloomfield offers would help out with this. I will also be gaming
well what do you guys think.
also what motherboards would you recommend. I've been looking at the EVGA boards and i like what they offer. I do plan on overclocking this (want to get at least 4.0ghz with whatever cpu i end up getting.)