Zarathustra[H];1036658282 said:I did something summer 2009 when I went from a Athlon 64 3000+ with 1gb ram and an AGP Geforce 6800GT to a core i7 rig
I think I remember when you built that rig...
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Zarathustra[H];1036658282 said:I did something summer 2009 when I went from a Athlon 64 3000+ with 1gb ram and an AGP Geforce 6800GT to a core i7 rig
I think I remember when you built that rig...
Waiting for 2011.
I WANT to upgrade for the simple thrill of building a new system, but i certainly don't need to, as such, I'll be holding off on SB, or a while anyway. There may be an upgrade in my future sometime in 2012. I also get much more enjoyment from an upgrade when it consists of an entirly new build and not just uprading a component or two. As long as my games can maintain ~45fps at my native resolution, i'll be content enough with this box. When it starts to struggle to do that, and upgrade will not be far behind.
The current asking prices of used q9550s are about the same as that of a new 2500k (at MC price anyway). Hard to do that, coming from a c2d, as painfully easy as the drop-in would be.
DDR3 is dirt cheap now too. The wild card will be the mobo.
I have an i7 920 so I'll be waiting until the 2011 CPU's.
My Q6600 is holding up rather well and still has a bit to go on its OC. I'm planning on waiting until die shrink "Tick" processors before I consider upgrading. It also gives AMD time to release desktop bulldozers so I can compare prior to upgrading. Only upgrade I might do this year is add a SSD.
My Q6600 is holding up rather well and still has a bit to go on its OC. I'm planning on waiting until die shrink "Tick" processors before I consider upgrading. It also gives AMD time to release desktop bulldozers so I can compare prior to upgrading. Only upgrade I might do this year is add a SSD.