read the whole thing

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=63

yeah and theirs 6 sites that say something totally different, believe what you want man, cling to you old cpu if you want. you always say you only have the best, well i7 is the best the rest is up to you, personally i could care less if you buy it or not.

even the 920 is faster then the 9770 in some games
but like i said gaming is not a really good test of cpu's, but the important ones to watch are fallout 3 and farcry 2 which actually do use the cpu, and are very well multithreded.

Synthetics are valid benches and do have a place in the grand scheme of things.

Superpi for example, allows one to test performance on an ever increasing level of hardware. The smaller runs are now exclusively the domain of the processor (L1, L2, L3) with larger runs eventually needing to access system memory.

My Q9450 at 3950 Mhz running the 16MB Superpi, is off by 40 seconds from the bench of an i7 965 at 4.0ghz. I doubt the extra 50Mhz would make up that 40 second difference. That 40 seconds difference is a significant gain.

Gaming benchmarks on the other hand are a different beast. Most state "best played on Intel", or "best viewed on ATI", really are an unfair comparison because those games have optimized code specific to that processor or video card.


For the i7, just about all of the leaked benchmarks online are showing Engineering Samples of the processor and running on boards which have not been finalized. We get this from the hardware whores and pimps whenever 'new' is about to happen.

We see in many of the benchmarks for the i7 to indeed be an excellent performer with only further gains to be had through retail core stepping and retail motherboards with a production bios.

The fact is, whatever you're running right now is obsolete, and will be officially obsolete on 17 Nov when the new socket is officially released.

Clarke, if you have nothing to worry about the i7, then why expire your 3DMark06 benchmark on 15 Nov?

thank you skiman.

i was more referring to gaming synthetics, but your point is valid none the less

Skiman Great points and the qx9770 runs with the big dogs

maybe just maybe i might try an i7 Hell who knows may even put my hand out to do a review..........

and my retire my score for 3dmark06 lol i have not even posted it yet but hey

skiman can you retire my score????????


guys dont get me wrong i am busting your balls
and i love it skiman i bet ill have a i7 before you


lol why did i have to say that

i guess i runied the surprize

and hey no need to wait till nov 17

why not place an order now
they are out there and ready to be bought

4 sites have them along with the p6 mobos

or if your lucky you can buy a review setup for less than new price



lol so have at me now boys i spilled the beans

I don't know if I want to re-install '06...it is a DX9 bench and I've been working on the Vantage.

Ordering as well

And maybe one for the Mozart as well. Lets get spoiled!

p24,000 going to be too hard for you to get

Do you have a compare url?

Order one for me to then! lol

Lol. If I were rich.

I'm actually not buying any until it is practical to do so.

At the moment I need nothing. So i'm probably good to wait a year. That's probably the best to do.

Exactly what I'm planning on as well. I'm putting a few bucks into this system I have now so no sense turning around tomorrow & switching up even though I would have liked to go 790i but it isn't necessary.

phuckit!

I think that I will be going for one of these i7's as well. Unless the prices of the Q9550's drop significantly it's not worth it for me to get one with this new CPU just around the corner. Here's to the end of the month!

lmao ill have a q9550 for sale soon its almost new lol