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i7-860 vs i7-930

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eagleknight

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I am putting together a new PC now finally after my 8 year old PC won't cut it any longer. :p Mainly used for daily computing and I will also be doing a lot of video editing. Not a heavy gamer any more.

Microcenter has the 860 and 930 both at $199 now. I have read a lot of the 860 vs 920 threads and they seem to lean towards the 920. I plan to overclock some, but nothing hardcore. Would it be worth the extra money that I would be paying in the mobo for my application. Would the power saving with the 860 be worth it? :confused:
 
eagleknight said:
I am putting together a new PC now finally after my 8 year old PC won't cut it any longer. :p Mainly used for daily computing and I will also be doing a lot of video editing. Not a heavy gamer any more.

Microcenter has the 860 and 930 both at $199 now. I have read a lot of the 860 vs 920 threads and they seem to lean towards the 920. I plan to overclock some, but nothing hardcore. Would it be worth the extra money that I would be paying in the mobo for my application. Would the power saving with the 860 be worth it? :confused:
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Unless your on a tight budget go i7 920 and X58 motherboard. Your looking at a $100 difference for the motherboard, but you get up to 12GB (2GB DIMMs) memory (premier 4 can use it) with the option to upgrade to hexacore in the future. Programs like Premiere and Photoshop are starting to support GPU accelerated processing and having SLI/Xfire support give you more cheap upgrade options by going dual GPU. If you live near a MC or Fry's your looking at a $150 difference for CPU + MB when on sale. Frys had a i7 930 + X58 combo for $350 and just recently had a i5-750 + P55 combo for $200.
 
For most video editing software, the 920 is definitely the way to go. And, like the poster above me said, the X58 architecture is going to be a lot more flexible with future upgrades. Heck, if you invest in a USB3.0/SATA 6g/s mobo, you might be able to squeeze 8 years out of your new machine, too.
 
Both replies have said 920, when my title says 930... Should I not get the 930??? Microcenter has the 920 for $179 and the 930 for $199.
 
This really isn't an i7-8xx friendly neighborhood is it (the Intel forum in general, not just this thread)? It's either i7-9xx or i5-xxx. I guess it's either max performance (money being no object) or max money-saving (performance being no object). Nothing wrong with any of that, but we middle-of-the-roader's seem to be kind of out of our element around here (nothing wrong with that either).
 
Frankly, I can't see 860 as middle of the road. Costs the same as 930, which makes it a high-end part and yet doesn't offer any of the 1366 advantages. i5 750 is middle-of-the-road, and i3 would be the low end, low cost part.
 
So, it would appear that the i7-8xx cpu's are an Intel marketing screw-up. Oh well, you win some and you lose some.
 
TehQuick said:
Frankly, I can't see 860 as middle of the road. Costs the same as 930, which makes it a high-end part and yet doesn't offer any of the 1366 advantages. i5 750 is middle-of-the-road, and i3 would be the low end, low cost part.
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But it doesnt cost the same unless you already have a mobo and ram. Same "quality" mobo is gonna be ~100$ more expensive, and our looking at another 100 or so in ram if you were going to get 8/12GB.

That being said the x58 setup is probably a worthy choice for op if hes heavy into video editing, someplace that extra ram, and triple channel would com in handy.
 
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