Core I7 is here

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opendriver
Please share what system it is. Was it a custom system or a pre-configured one?
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Pako
+1 Yes, please share!
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Custom

Core i7 920 (940-965 speed gains are not worth the large increased price)
ATI 4870x2 2gb
6gb DDR3 1600
Vista ultimate 64bit (mostly for the built in 64bit)

I wanted to get a good cooler but they didn't have anything for the 1366 socket yet, so I will wait until some good coolers come about and OC the 920.
 
VIPERGTSR01
Custom

Core i7 920 (940-965 speed gains are not worth the large increased price)
ATI 4870x2 2gb
6gb DDR3 1600
Vista ultimate 64bit (mostly for the built in 64bit)

I wanted to get a good cooler but they didn't have anything for the 1366 socket yet, so I will wait until some good coolers come about and OC the 920.
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I know the 3dmark06 scores really don't mean much, I mean....How's it run? As expected?

When you get a chance, run a 3dMark06 bench on it and share the results. :D:tup:
 
VIPERGTSR01
Custom

Core i7 920 (940-965 speed gains are not worth the large increased price)
ATI 4870x2 2gb
6gb DDR3 1600
Vista ultimate 64bit (mostly for the built in 64bit)

I wanted to get a good cooler but they didn't have anything for the 1366 socket yet, so I will wait until some good coolers come about and OC the 920.
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Get the Cooler Master V8!

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Pako
I know the 3dmark06 scores really don't mean much, I mean....How's it run? As expected?

When you get a chance, run a 3dMark06 bench on it and share the results. :D:tup:
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I actually don't have it yet, should tommorrow, monday at latest.


The whole reason I went out and got a new PC is because I got a hankering for Flight simulator, I was never happy how FSX ran my rig with all my mods (If I hit 10fps I was very happy! :indiff:) so I did some research and went for it.

I am not really a fan of benchmarking (as I usually get dissapointed :lol: ) so I don't know if I will run it in a benchmark it, probably will later when I go to OC it.
But I will give impressions.

Casio
Going to go for 5.5GHz?

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Thats crazy the highest I saw during my research was 4.4ghz, but they were attempting a stable system.




Oh and as for coolers that V8 one looks intense! Though it was originally LGA775? I will wait and see what dedicated 1366 coolers come around these ways (soon)
 
VIPERGTSR01
Custom

Core i7 920 (940-965 speed gains are not worth the large increased price)
ATI 4870x2 2gb
6gb DDR3 1600
Vista ultimate 64bit (mostly for the built in 64bit)
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Stop copying me! :grumpy:

Heh, I just now noticed you're getting the same exact things I'm getting.

What case you getting?
What PSU?
What motherboard?

I'm looking at the Cooler Master ESA case COSMOS 1010.

Haven't decided on a PSU, yet, but Cooler Master makes a 1000 watt PSU with ESA. But, it's pricey and has very little customer feedback.

I have no clue to what motherboard I want, either. That's what I'm waiting on the most. I read a lot of good motherboards are coming soon, so I'm waiting.

I also need to do more research on what DVR software I want to use, HDTV tuner, sound card (if I actually need one), and media driver/recorder (BD or DVD).
 
Solid Lifters
Stop copying me! :grumpy:

Heh, I just now noticed you're getting the same exact things I'm getting.

What case you getting?
What PSU?
What motherboard?
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To be honest because I jumped into X58 so early (especially here) there isn't a whole lot of choice, the people I bought it from doesn't have a whole lot of choice yet, I have seen some other places that have a another choice of motherboard but those shops want full retail for everything which makes a huge price difference.

I am getting the MSi X58 platinum (not expecting it to be the greatest) motherboard, I hear the Asus P6T X58 board is pretty good.

PSU is a Thermaltake QFan 750Watt, Case is a Antec Nine Hundred.
 
I would love to upgrade to i7, but I can not justify the cost of it. I would need 4 parts to upgrade: CPU, MOBO, ram, and a sata2 hard drive (yes, I still have an IDE). Id really like to see some benchmarks from that if you get a chance. I can warrant a good score, due to the 4870X2, seeing as it is the best "single" card you can buy.

If/when upgrading to i7, I would go with:
Asus P6T deluxe
i7 920
6GB DDR3 1600
New Nvidia card. Its going to be 2 GTX280's on one card, just like the 4870x2
Maybe a 1900X1200 LCD


All of that is about 1300 dollars, and that's not going to happen right now.

VIPERGTSR01
Thats crazy the highest I saw during my research was 4.4ghz, but they were attempting a stable system.
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Intel may have some competition when it come to overclocking:

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"We've seen Phenom II, Deneb overclocked all the way to 6.2GHz. This was not a screenshot boot, we've seen it with our own eyes as chaps from AMD managed to run the Crysis benchmark several times. The machine was stable on almost every run."

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10801&Itemid=1
 
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Haven't seen or heard anything legitimate of the GTX280X2/GTX280Ultra, so if you have some, please post them here!

BTW, opendriver, did you get rid of your PS3?
 
Well I have been playing around with my new i7 rig for almost 2 days now, countless amount of apps I needed to install etc

After a couple bugs (Asus supplies some off thier own software with the ATi 4870x2 which wouldn't allow my computer to play anything in DX10) it is running very well. I so have tryied Crysis (64bit DX10), FSX (DX10) and Assassins Creed (DX10) and all three run supperb.

Keep in mind I have no overclocking or tweaking at all yet.


Crysis I was running 1600x1200 8xAA and all very high settings (the highest allowable and only possible with DX10 or a hack) and performance was smooooth (and beautiful), but at times I did get a couple stutters, knocking it back to 4x removed those. The odd thing though I was getting some flicking square sort of textures in the clouds, haven't looking further into that yet. I later ran Crysis though a Component cable to my 720P Plasma and it looked no where near as good.

FSX frankly is a system resource whore, I dont think it uses resources very well and can pull my system down with everything in ulrta high settings/ full autogen/ full ai vehicles and bad weather. Though it does still stay at a playable level and doesnt last very long as you change direction or fly through the clouds. I was happy when I got DX10 working it did improve visuals and performance the same time.

Assassins creed....... Everything the highest I could possibly make it and not even a hint of the slightest frame drop in all circumstances, looks nice too.

(Sorry no 3dmark 06)
 
VIPERGTSR01
Well I have been playing around with my new i7 rig for almost 2 days now, countless amount of apps I needed to install etc

After a couple bugs (Asus supplies some off thier own software with the ATi 4870x2 which wouldn't allow my computer to play anything in DX10) it is running very well. I so have tryied Crysis (64bit DX10), FSX (DX10) and Assassins Creed (DX10) and all three run supperb.

Keep in mind I have no overclocking or tweaking at all yet.


Crysis I was running 1600x1200 8xAA and all very high settings (the highest allowable and only possible with DX10 or a hack) and performance was smooooth (and beautiful), but at times I did get a couple stutters, knocking it back to 4x removed those. The odd thing though I was getting some flicking square sort of textures in the clouds, haven't looking further into that yet. I later ran Crysis though a Component cable to my 720P Plasma and it looked no where near as good.

FSX frankly is a system resource whore, I dont think it uses resources very well and can pull my system down with everything in ulrta high settings/ full autogen/ full ai vehicles and bad weather. Though it does still stay at a playable level and doesnt last very long as you change direction or fly through the clouds. I was happy when I got DX10 working it did improve visuals and performance the same time.

Assassins creed....... Everything the highest I could possibly make it and not even a hint of the slightest frame drop in all circumstances, looks nice too.

(Sorry no 3dmark 06)
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Very nice. In Crysis, at the command console prompt (press "~" with out the quotes) and type:

Code: 
r_DisplayInfo 1

To get some interesting info, like FPS and how much memory is being used. You can also run the benchmark batch files found in your install directory to get a reported benchmark of Crysis at your current settings.

Some of that info would be helpful alone with some 3DMark06 scores. :)

Glad to hear things are running good!
 

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