LGA775 Sticking Around For A While
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Rastalovich
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It's almost one of those things where the difference in the tech aint that great to warrant people busting their balls to go i7.
S939 setups with maxed memory and a pretty recent gfxcard can still play just about anything. U get a pretty strong x2 in there. Ur benchies wouldnt be very good - but hey.
It'd be tremendous if in a few months time ALL of the manufacturers brought out their 775 consolidation mobos, 1 each please, and they could be quiet a piece of work.
S939 setups with maxed memory and a pretty recent gfxcard can still play just about anything. U get a pretty strong x2 in there. Ur benchies wouldnt be very good - but hey.
It'd be tremendous if in a few months time ALL of the manufacturers brought out their 775 consolidation mobos, 1 each please, and they could be quiet a piece of work.
This made me laugh, considering our company specialise in older (and some obsolete) technologies. Our biggest sellers are still socket 478 and socket A. I mean face it, its gonna be heck of a long time before we see I7 boards at the ludicrous prices were seeing some socket 775's, I mean u can build a low end, so low it does the limbo under ants, internet system excluding monitor and OS for about £90 (board £20, Ram £10, CPU £18, case(inc PSU) £20, HDD £20) its gonna be a while before we see I7 at that kind of price.
i suppose its too easy for me to criticise being it my main source of income...i didnt mean any offense..but late next year is a bit too soon...I doubt were gonna see a massive switch to LGA1366 for quite some time...even intels oficial 2011 is a bit optimistic...you can still get OEM socket 478 cpu's brand new...and with cost being the main factor i'm reconning 775 is gonna be arround for at least another decade... maybe not in enthusiast circles but for the average bog standard "check my facebook and email" society its gonna be on the books...unfortunately because of Intels own branding and OEM contracts certain models of CPU's will always be produced...basically they offer guarantees to larger manufacturers that certain cpu's will always be produced so they will buy there products...longevity...keeps the big businesses happy...
and ive had this out with a few people who recon im talking out my arse, well if thats true why can you openly buy socket 478 northwood 2.8's still...check here if you doubt me
and ive had this out with a few people who recon im talking out my arse, well if thats true why can you openly buy socket 478 northwood 2.8's still...check here if you doubt me
thanks zoot...you know how many people have argued this point with me...but i think the facts speak for themselves...and your right the big business is in average jo..not us loons on here who screw the crap out of hardware and analyse benchmarks to the extremity...
...and yes when I said loon I meant myself as well,,
...and yes when I said loon I meant myself as well,,
Zoot
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Right you are Jaster. 
and X2 on being a loon.
I mean go into any office and you'll find the majority are probably still using Pentium 4's. It was only in the last year my college upgraded to Core 2 based systems and that was only about 10% of the all the machines, the rest being mainly Pentium 4 based systems.
My last work PC was an Opteron 150 based rig running Red Hat to give another example.
and X2 on being a loon.I mean go into any office and you'll find the majority are probably still using Pentium 4's. It was only in the last year my college upgraded to Core 2 based systems and that was only about 10% of the all the machines, the rest being mainly Pentium 4 based systems.
My last work PC was an Opteron 150 based rig running Red Hat to give another example.
Zoot
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No it most certainly does not...
Besides it's only recently multi threaded applications became prevelant. It's only recently the likes of Conroe/Penryn actually started to get justice from software.
As for me... I've said it before and I'll say it again...
I'm going to hang on until the release of Westmere (32nm revision of Nehalem) at the earliest to remotely consider an upgrade. I jumped on the Conroe bandwagon shortly after Conroe was launched and then the Penryn bandwagon over the summer... Looking back now, I should have just skipped Conroe...
Besides it's only recently multi threaded applications became prevelant. It's only recently the likes of Conroe/Penryn actually started to get justice from software.
As for me... I've said it before and I'll say it again...
I'm going to hang on until the release of Westmere (32nm revision of Nehalem) at the earliest to remotely consider an upgrade. I jumped on the Conroe bandwagon shortly after Conroe was launched and then the Penryn bandwagon over the summer... Looking back now, I should have just skipped Conroe...
I just use what i need...my AM2 6400 does me fine...I look at whats best around for the price at the time of upgrade...don't get me wrong if I had money to burn I'd have a I7 965 Extreme....I think you get to that time in your life when you have to say "an extra 2% in fps is not really worth the (x) ammount of money"...if you can afford to do it great...and i'll always be an enthusiast..but I primarily look at "massive" performance increases, over 50% at least before my eyes roll ...put it this way my last graphics card upgrade was from a Radeon 9800XT AGP to a 9800GX2 ...value for money....
I was looking at I7's but I really wanna hold out for AM3...I got 2k saved up but i want to make my 1 year olds xmas xtra special...my pc wa always my baby but not any more...
...put it this way my last graphics card upgrade was from a Radeon 9800XT AGP to a 9800GX2 ...value for money....I was looking at I7's but I really wanna hold out for AM3...I got 2k saved up but i want to make my 1 year olds xmas xtra special...my pc wa always my baby but not any more...
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