Yeah, it was. He's saying you're an idiot. You could buy an inferior model for 250$, 1/4th the price of yours, and Over-clock it to your Speeds, and it'd still last 7 or so years...at one forth the price. That is, of course, if you don't play to OC. The only reason ANYONE buys the 1000$ CPU's these days is to OVERCLOCK THEM TO INSANE SPEEDS. Like the New 8-cored CPU from Intel, someone OC'ed it to 5.6GHZ on Water-cooling and it's stable. I mean god damned, the one you bought is MADE for Over-clocking. TO not Over-clock it means you've WASTED your money.
I bought a 2.4GHZ Q6600 for 190$ almost two years ago, I OC'ed it to 3.4GHZ. In almost all applications, it'll perform the same as your 1000$ one. I mean sure, you'll get higher FPS and performance, but not enough to justify 800$ more? It'll be like 10-20FPS MAX, that is, of course if the i7 gets some of the fixes it needs, and games / programs take full use of it.
Really, those who buy 1000$ CPU's and don't over-clock them know nothing about computers. They're that expensive so that you CAN over-clock them.(Built / designed to be OC'ed.)
5.6GHZ 8-Core CPU, that'll probably last 5 or so years, easily. That's being generous with my prediction, too. ;P
Yours is nothing special at stock clock. Hit maybe 4.2GHZ or 4.5GHZ and then possibly you'll be justified for spending 1000$ on a Xtreme CPU.
I bought a 2.4GHZ Q6600 for 190$ almost two years ago, I OC'ed it to 3.4GHZ. In almost all applications, it'll perform the same as your 1000$ one. I mean sure, you'll get higher FPS and performance, but not enough to justify 800$ more? It'll be like 10-20FPS MAX, that is, of course if the i7 gets some of the fixes it needs, and games / programs take full use of it.
Really, those who buy 1000$ CPU's and don't over-clock them know nothing about computers. They're that expensive so that you CAN over-clock them.(Built / designed to be OC'ed.)
5.6GHZ 8-Core CPU, that'll probably last 5 or so years, easily. That's being generous with my prediction, too. ;P
Yours is nothing special at stock clock. Hit maybe 4.2GHZ or 4.5GHZ and then possibly you'll be justified for spending 1000$ on a Xtreme CPU.