CPU until Sandy Bridge

[Bungral]

Afternoon all,

Quick opinion wanted from all.

I want rid of my E8600 as I'm bored of it.

This leaves two choices at the moment as I want an Intel which is either a i7 920 (D0) for £158 or a i5 750 for £134

If I went with the i7, I'd need to change my memory as it's 2133MHz dual channel but if I went i5, I'd be able to keep the memory.

It doesn't really matter what motherboard as I'll need to change it regardless at the start of next year for Sandy Bridge.

I'm leaning toward i5 for the ease of it but which do you guys reckon?

 

[deathwish]

save the money and go for the i5 if you are planning to upgrade later

it will give you a performance increase and save some money though E8600's were not bad performers

may i point out you may not see mutch difference in some games

 

[Bungral]

I know the E8600 is very good and this one has a very very low VID so clocked to 4GHz on less than stock V's.

I'm just looking for a bit of a change for 6 - 8 months really while the E8600 has some value left in it.

Could probably sell it for about as much as the 750 would cost.

 

[AMDFTW]

+1 for a i5 it should be a decent upgrade,would you just get the 750 or the others with smaller die's?

 

[Bungral]

Not really after the dual cores.. .Looking to go back up to quad this time I reckon.

Found the CPU and mobo now...

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/189805

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Inte...ld-45nm-Quad-Core-266GHz-8MB-Cache-95W-Retail

Totals £260... I should be able to get most of that back from my current setup.

Could get the 750 for £134 but Aria want £7 postage the sods so free del with Scan makes more sense.

 

[AMDFTW]

will u always be using one GPU this mobo scales it down to X16 X8 instead of X16 X16

not shure what impact it might have

 

[Bungral]

Pretty sure it scales it down to X16 and X4 as it goes but yeah, until Sandy Bridge, I definitely shant be going xFire or SLI... This board doesn't so SLI anyway.

That's the only difference compared to the £60 more expensive Pro really... Oh yeah and the Pro doesn't have PCI ports as far as I'm aware.

That said I was reading it late yesterday.

 

[AMDFTW]

oryt i dident think it scaled it down that much,might just be that board,but them asus's are nice boards fella