After spending huors trying to OC my old and tired Toledo 4800, and big deal since you could clock that thing to 9Ghz and it still wouldn't perform as well as a Core 2 Duo, I'm ready to upgrade, or at least getting hot for it. As you all know, it's no fun having a CPU that limits you playing games, much less working.
Anyway, it's time to stop messing around and get serious about upgrading. This rig has done me well.
The problem is that I am an AMD type, but I'm not buying their current Phenom II, not with the new i7s line out. The i7 920 just blows it away, and for nearly the same price.
Anyway, here are my questions (gets out popcorn and flame tally:
1. Does anyone have any ideas about what type of performance we're going to see witht eh new AM3 lineup of CPUs?
2. How will they compare to the i7s?
3. How will the i7s and AM3 Phenom III OC?
4. After OCing, will yuo be able to turn back on CnQ and Intels CPU power saving (Don't know what Intels CnQ flavor is called)?
5. Can you get nearly the same overall performance OCing an i7 920 compared to the two other higher level models (In other words, are the cache and other instructions the same and the clock is the difference?) The i7 920 is really interesting to me, now that it has the new on chip controller.
I'm just REALLY itching to do up another system, but I prefer to go AMD is AMD pulls it's head out with the AM3. I'm not in a hurry, but in the next several months, or maybe like one or two--haha. I guess I am getting itchy.
I also think down the line AMD can do some really interesting things matching their ATI cards to their new CPUs. I mean they have the ability to produce Intel matched cards to compete with nVidia, and at the same time, make their own cards something like proprietary to the AMD CPUs and REALLY make them scream--since they don't have to worry about creating a single card for both Intel and AMD systems. This might be faulty reasoning on my part, but I'm interested in what you all have to say about all this.
Anyway, it's time to stop messing around and get serious about upgrading. This rig has done me well.
The problem is that I am an AMD type, but I'm not buying their current Phenom II, not with the new i7s line out. The i7 920 just blows it away, and for nearly the same price.
Anyway, here are my questions (gets out popcorn and flame tally:
1. Does anyone have any ideas about what type of performance we're going to see witht eh new AM3 lineup of CPUs?
2. How will they compare to the i7s?
3. How will the i7s and AM3 Phenom III OC?
4. After OCing, will yuo be able to turn back on CnQ and Intels CPU power saving (Don't know what Intels CnQ flavor is called)?
5. Can you get nearly the same overall performance OCing an i7 920 compared to the two other higher level models (In other words, are the cache and other instructions the same and the clock is the difference?) The i7 920 is really interesting to me, now that it has the new on chip controller.
I'm just REALLY itching to do up another system, but I prefer to go AMD is AMD pulls it's head out with the AM3. I'm not in a hurry, but in the next several months, or maybe like one or two--haha. I guess I am getting itchy.
I also think down the line AMD can do some really interesting things matching their ATI cards to their new CPUs. I mean they have the ability to produce Intel matched cards to compete with nVidia, and at the same time, make their own cards something like proprietary to the AMD CPUs and REALLY make them scream--since they don't have to worry about creating a single card for both Intel and AMD systems. This might be faulty reasoning on my part, but I'm interested in what you all have to say about all this.