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SO, I picked up Planet coaster for the wife tonight, and started dusting off my old 7970 to put in this weekend to give her an upgrade.

I always thought her machine had an i7 920, so I figured I'd toss in my old 965EE while I'm in there, only to notice she has an 860, wrong socket..

After a short time of cussing intel for changing sockets too fucking often, I went to look at what 1156 processors are out there.

I have NO experience with this socket, so any advice you can give would be awesome, I was thinking the I5-680 may be a nice upgrade for what she does, browser games, and light gaming, with the substantially higher clock speeds and all, all the 1156 i7's look blah, and are fetching double the i5 on ebay.

Or should I just make her suffer till I build a new rig in 6 months and she gets my 1366 setup?
 
The 860 is still a decent processor given the age of the platform. Even if you could toss the 965EE in there, I don't think it would make a big difference. Comparing the 965EE vs the 860, they are both Nehalem based 45nm Quad Core CPUs with hyperthreading. They share the exact same Turbo Frequency (3.46Ghz), both have 8MB Cache, etc. Don't get me wrong, 1366 is clearly the superior platform of the two, but it in this case I think the difference would be rather tiny.

You should not even consider an I5-680, as that would almost certainly be a downgrade. The 680 has half the cores and half the cache of the 860. Most browsers are multi-threaded now, and computers have gotten to the point where idle cores are almost taken for granted. It's not uncommon to see random OS background tasks using an entire core sometimes. The ship has sailed on dual-cores, and it would be crazy to "upgrade" from a quad-core to a dual-core, even if the 680 has a slightly higher clockspeed.
 
Just wait for 6 months. You can try and OC the i7 860 in the meantime.

The Clarkdale wont be an upgrade.
 
GotNoRice said:
The 860 is still a decent processor given the age of the platform. Even if you could toss the 965EE in there, I don't think it would make a big difference. Comparing the 965EE vs the 860, they are both Nehalem based 45nm Quad Core CPUs with hyperthreading. They share the exact same Turbo Frequency (3.46Ghz), both have 8MB Cache, etc. Don't get me wrong, 1366 is clearly the superior platform of the two, but it in this case I think the difference would be rather tiny.

You should not even consider an I5-680, as that would almost certainly be a downgrade. The 680 has half the cores and half the cache of the 860. Most browsers are multi-threaded now, and computers have gotten to the point where idle cores are almost taken for granted. It's not uncommon to see random OS background tasks using an entire core sometimes. The ship has sailed on dual-cores, and it would be crazy to "upgrade" from a quad-core to a dual-core, even if the 680 has a slightly higher clockspeed.
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I was thinking the same about the cores being better utilized now, but I had no idea the 860 boosted up that high, thats impressive as hell on a 2.8Ghz base.

Shintai said:
Just wait for 6 months. You can try and OC the i7 860 in the meantime.

The Clarkdale wont be an upgrade.
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Thank you both much for the help. :)
 
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