CPU dilema

[mrshinyshoes]

Well I've been waiting for bulldozer, and it hasn't really delivered. So now i'm left wondering which intel CPU to buy, and whether to buy it at all and wait untill the new Ivybridge series comes out which would seem to be january 2012 at the earliest.

It'll be used to play Battlefield 3 obviously but for the sake of a few months game play when i'm busy anyway, is it worth waiting to January will the Ivybridge gains be anything noticeable vs the current i5/i7. Which brings me onto whether i should get the i5 or i7. I realise most people will say i5so in real terms how much extra life will an i7 CPU gain over an i5?

I'm currently on a pentium D which is still fighting it's corner with low settings in games haha

Thanks

 

[yassarikhan786]

You only need the Hyperthreading for photo/video rendering/editing, so if your primarily going to game on your rig then an i5 2500k will perform on par with the i7 2600k. You will save some money and you can always get a Hyperthreading IvyBridge CPU in the future if you need to.

 

[mrshinyshoes]

Alright do you know when ivy bridge is coming out?

Yeh the i5 sounds like the way to go leaving money to be spent on the motherboard/graphics card

 

[S_I_N]

I5 2500k

decent Z68 mobo ( Like my UD4)

GTX580 or GTX570 gpu

Corsair 750watt psu (850 if you plan on adding another gpu later)

 

[Dandaman91]

I5 2500k

decent Z68 mobo ( Like my UD4)

GTX580 or GTX570 gpu

Corsair 750watt psu (850 if you plan on adding another gpu later)

+1

That would be a tidy little rig there

 

[Azurite]

Intel says that Ivy will be launched April 2012. Havent heard about any delays...

The 2500k is a nice cpu. Have one in my lan/extra rig, and im really happy about it. If you want HT the 2700k is out

 

[mrshinyshoes]

I5 2500k

decent Z68 mobo ( Like my UD4)

GTX580 or GTX570 gpu

Corsair 750watt psu (850 if you plan on adding another gpu later)

Yeh looks good, I've got a 650w antec truepower new PSU though that should power a 570 shouldn't it?

 

[S_I_N]

yeah jst watch how and if it ramps up when oc'n but 650 should be ok with a single 570

 

[Lollipop]

I5 2500k

decent Z68 mobo ( Like my UD4)

GTX580 or GTX570 gpu

Corsair 750watt psu (850 if you plan on adding another gpu later)

This

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Get a 580 not a 570 (unless ofcourse you can't afford it) for the mysterious 'future proofing' but don't buy from MSI unless all you want is a stock card to last the rig's lifetime - MSI cards overclock a little bit then pop in a pathetic little pop of miserable fail popness, any other card brand like Asus, Gigabyte or Gainward will land you higher clocks with an on par heatsink, such as the 580 SOC

 

[mrshinyshoes]

Yeh i'm thinking 570 or possibly 80, or I might see what happens when the new graphics cards come out later this year/early next year. the protocol you can power all that with 750w so a 580 would be the highest I could go with 650W then.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Yeh i'm thinking 570 or possibly 80, or I might see what happens when the new graphics cards come out later this year/early next year. the protocol you can power all that with 750w so a 580 would be the highest I could go with 650W then.

If you mean my sig rig then yeah is running fine but at stock after I encountered instabilities all of a sudden after about a year of 4.2Ghz @1.5v. I haven't had the current sig rig @4.2Ghz yet so I can't comment on overclocking headroom

 

[mrshinyshoes]

KK Cheers for all the help

 

[badatgames18]

IVB is just a die shrink of SNB.. no architectural change (except for trigate transistors). coolaler had a very early es of ivb.. very low volt, so i hope it will offer us higher overclockability.. maybe get rid of that stupid mghz wall snb has

(just wishful thinking lol.. still gonna have it)

also hoping for higher average max multi.

As for either an i5 or i7.. depends on what you are doing, for gaming ht isn't really that important so a 2500k will do you just fine, but if you do work which is heavily threaded.. then of course the ht will make a big difference.

 

[Eru]

I thought sandy bridge-e, wich is rumored to hit on the 15th of november (or at least the motherboards for it), was going to be the die shrink and ivy bridge was gonna be the architecture change?

Either way I'd wait until the 15th to get an upgrade.

 

[Lollipop]

I thought sandy bridge-e, wich is rumored to hit on the 15th of november (or at least the motherboards for it), was going to be the die shrink and ivy bridge was gonna be the architecture change?

Either way I'd wait until the 15th to get an upgrade.

Nope, SB-E is going to replace 1366

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Intel should bring out a 5Ghz IB triple core, but they won't