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[alanwest09872]

As soon as the x58 and the I7 core comes out I will be purchasing those. Well in 2 weeks. I will be purchasing one more x280. A 1200 psu and 16 gb or ram. I dont need any of this stuff I want it. So call me crazy stupid whatever I dont care I want a really kick butt pc. I also plan on getting a liquid cooled system. So I have pretty much everything decieded. I am spending alot on my overall system im not goin to cheap out on the hardrive. I dont want to bottleneck my pc. And I know that the performance is very similar I just need help making my final decision on the hardrive.

I seen that the new I7 core proccessor can hit 5Ghz which is insane. I would be happy with 4.5

Ok based on what I was told I am goin to the intel x25-m. My next question would be if i put 2 into a raid what kinda performance do you think I would get. If i remeber right anytime you raid then you get much better performance.

 

[1337_JohnN]

What are you going to dowith 8 cores? Professsionals can't even use up a quad core that easily.

 

[zmatt]

Game, like no one has gamed before. You can never have too much cpu. If you don't use it with today's games, you will use it with tomorrow's.

 

[1337_JohnN]

I bet by the time something is any close to one, and a half times more stressful than Crysis, there would be a 16 core, pwning an i7. But what is the i7 advrtized to be usd for?

 

[baron5]

i7's are only 4 cored cpu;s with hyper threading arent they? or are you refering to the newer i7's that will be cuming out with octo core?

 

[alanwest09872]

Game, like no one has gamed before. You can never have too much cpu. If you don't use it with today's games, you will use it with tomorrow's.

WOw its a about time someone gets it. Incredible cpu kick butt Hardrive, 3 sli 280 gtx and 12-16 gigs of ddr3 im getting excited just thinking about it. I will have it in about 10 days as long as all the parts are out and I will post pics and benchmarks for everyone. Iwill also oc to at least 4.5 on liquic cool.

4.5*8 = 36 ghz you dont wanna know what im doin thingking about that right now eeww gross lol

Ok i built a pc that I am goin to get off of newegg. Now let me say I put up a fake proccessor and motherboard. As soon as I get my settlement and They have them I will buy this setup


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[veg1992]

Don't multiply Core speeds together.. its not right.. check the Noob Myths Thread

 

[alanwest09872]

Don't multiply Core speeds together.. its not right.. check the Noob Myths Thread

Ohdarn Im a noob /cry. Lol thanks for letting me know I will take a look.

 

[wafflehammer]

WOw its a about time someone gets it. Incredible cpu kick butt Hardrive, 3 sli 280 gtx and 12-16 gigs of ddr3 im getting excited just thinking about it. I will have it in about 10 days as long as all the parts are out and I will post pics and benchmarks for everyone. Iwill also oc to at least 4.5 on liquic cool.

HECK YEAA!!! lets not forget the part that 2/3 of it won't be used!!!! YAY FOR UNUSED OVER EXPENSIVE ITEMS!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

i'm sorry, but you have no clue what you are talking about. tri-sli scales like crap, with 3 cards you will very little boost from 2 cards...scaling of it is crap. RAM.....anything over 4 is a waste, only reason to get 6gb is to complete tri-channel. ohhh boy! look at that zalman pre-made WC setup that's worthless :| if you're going WC at least go to a good website and find parts to make a setup. WC'ing is like PC's, it's best to make your own.



yea...i'm mean, sorry..but i dislike seeing kids go on about spending thousands on a system when a $1200 system can do the same. People don't realize that there is a price-to-performance ratio when it comes to computers....and after about $1500 you're spending a ton of money for VERY VERY LITTLE performance increase.



EDIT: nehalem/bloomfield/core i7 (all same thing) is a quad(4)-core CPU...not 8.....

 

[veg1992]

Correct ^^

Except the last part.. its a 4 Core.. but its HyperThreaded like those Pentium 4's used to be (but are not crap like they where)