Upgrade help needed.

[Alsatian]

Got the i5 2500k, runs all the latest games smoothly on maxed out settings.

[TheRock]

Yea, I'll get that one, advised a few friends and told me that.
Can't wait! :P

[Max.]

Most programs/games only use 2core/threads and even if they do they use more they aren't optimized to run faster on Intel or AMD so your theory yet again fails

So basically, your saying that intel processors work best on current Programs(which is what you want in a processor) and AMD just creates Processors based of Future Theoretical Programs? e.g. 8 cores????

If MOST programs/games are the ones that get benchmarked isnt that what you would want your processor to perform like? not like something that is good in a few programs and shit in MOST?

[Aldo]

So basically, your saying that intel processors work best on current Programs(which is what you want in a processor) and AMD just creates Processors based of Future Theoretical Programs? e.g. 8 cores????

Obvious Intel Fan Is Obvious, no one said anything like that

If MOST programs/games are the ones that get benchmarked isnt that what you would want your processor to perform like? not like something that is good in a few programs and shit in MOST?

Only thing that gets benchedmarked is LATEST games and how fast a CPU can do something
You don't see web browsers, VoIP(Skype, TS3, Vent), MSN etc. being benched marked now do you? Most programs like I said aren't optimized to run on any platform faster, they are just designed to run as fast as they can

Since you like to pick your CPU by benchmarks shouldn't you get this one?
http://ark.intel.com/products/53580/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8870-%2830M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI%29
It beats the i5 2500k and the 2600k and the 2011 Socket i7s

Got the i5 2500k, runs all the latest games smoothly on maxed out settings.

GPU does a lot of the work

[TheRock]

Anyways, got a deal today, will get the things on Friday.

Will be getting me:
Mobo: ASRock P55M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7-870 Processor
(8M Cache, 2.93 GHz) (4 cores + 4 HT, plus turbo on 3,6)
RAM: 8GB - 2 pairs of 4gb not sure on model.
Which I will fill with Thermaltake TR-500 (500W) and Gigabyte HD6850 1gb, as well as around 350gb hdd (Need to buy some new ones, because they are old and slow..)

All of them, barely used from a friend for just 200 USD (150 euros in fact.) Whilst for i5 2500k rig brand new, it would be 270 euros/360 USD.

I'll have some spare money and I could do some of the below:

• Buy 2 more monitors (Eye-finity setup)
• Buy new hdd/more ram (500gb and 8gb more, or just 1tb)
• Sell the HD6850 1GB and get a better one. (like hd6870 2gb version or better!)

Not certain sure what I should use the spare money for, haha! Any advises?

[Aldo]

Anyways, got a deal today, will get the things on Friday.

Will be getting me:
Mobo: ASRock P55M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7-870 Processor
(8M Cache, 2.93 GHz) (4 cores + 4 HT, plus turbo on 3,6)
RAM: 8GB - 2 pairs of 4gb not sure on model.
Which I will fill with Thermaltake TR-500 (500W) and Gigabyte HD6850 1gb, as well as around 350gb hdd (Need to buy some new ones, because they are old and slow..)

All of them, barely used from a friend for just 200 USD (150 euros in fact.) Whilst for i5 2500k rig brand new, it would be 270 euros/360 USD.

I'll have some spare money and I could do some of the below:

• Buy 2 more monitors (Eye-finity setup)
• Buy new hdd/more ram (500gb and 8gb more, or just 1tb)
• Sell the HD6850 1GB and get a better one. (like hd6870 2gb version or better!)

Not certain sure what I should use the spare money for, haha! Any advises?

Should have got i5 2500k and ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 MOBO

[TheRock]

Not that much budget available, and the difference between i5-2500k and i7-870 are not huge either!

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=107

2500k: 20k (multithread) / singlethread 5860
870: 17k (multithread) / singlethread: 4676

and I don't mind that little difference, CPU's fair good! GPU is the thing that counts more, Q9400 did use to bottleneck the GPU, I doubt it will happen now!

[Aldo]

Pair the 2500k with a Hyper 212 Evo, overclock it to 4.5GHz get a 30% performance boost
Which will demolish that 870 and will be better in the long run but w/e

[TheRock]

Just got my hands on it, it's amazing...!! Haven't tried any game yet, had some issues with drivers and just solved them..
Thing is, I can either open pc with my 80hd(serial)+250gb(sata) which has the boot manager (although broken = forced to format), or either the 20gb which has windows xp (as I'm using).

I somehow need to find a way to connect the other 80gb, back-up the files and format it... or, format one of the 2 and loose the files... (Both win7 installs BSOD due to new hardware..) so either that, or I will just connect the 2 hdds together (the ones that have win 7 both), and launch some Windows Live Boot cd, take my files to an external HDD, then format from begin..

will test SA-MP in a bit, and will return for results!

[Julio.]

You could try the Windows 8 Beta :3

[TheRock]

No thanks, I don't want to install Vista2 on my pc ... :P Lack of drivers and lack of support for a lot of games..

[Max.]

To backup your files on a corrupt drive, download Recuva, cant garuntee the stability of the files tho.

[TheRock]

It's not corrupt drive, just that BootManager was broken, anyway fixed it by formating Windows 7 64bit on a new partition on the 250gb hdd..
Working good enough, 5gb ram also (1x2GB OCZ Gold, 3x1GB Corsair)..

[Bilbo]

Must've been cheap, when you can get 2x4GB 1600MHz CL9 for under 50EUR. :3

[Julio.]

When using RAM it is considered that equal amounts of RAM in each slot is better, and I prefer to use the same brand.

If they are of different speeds, use the slowest as your reference