Cheap But Great :
Any intel x48 Motherboard(150$)
Intel Quad 6600(150$)2.4 ghz easily up to 3.6ghz
radeon 4890(200$)(2 of these if your rich but greedy)
i7 is useless at the moment.
For users with a bit more experience in building PCs, if you are going for the enthusiast build, do not get the velociraptor HDD, rather get two regular WD caviar 250 gb drives at 7200RPM and arrange them in RAID 0, this way you get a lot more space and better transfer speed than the velociraptorm and it also costs a lot less.
(07-30-2009, 08:49 PM)abfab126 Wrote: [ -> ]Cheap But Great :
Any intel x48 Motherboard(150$)
Intel Quad 6600(150$)2.4 ghz easily up to 3.6ghz
radeon 4890(200$)(2 of these if your rich but greedy)
i7 is useless at the moment.
i7 is quite a bit faster than quad cores, and a 920 can be clocked higher i belive
clock for clock, i7 is 0-30% faster than equivalent yorkfield class.
(07-30-2009, 08:49 PM)abfab126 Wrote: [ -> ]i7 is useless at the moment.
What an ignorant thing to say. Wow!
The lowest i7 Quad can OC pretty easily to 4.0GHz. The newer revision of Q6600s (1.325 VID) struggle hard to make it past 3.[color=#FF0000]4[/color]GHz. A cheaper, better alternative, would be just about any Phenom II (take your pick from the ones I just posted one page back).
Recommending older Intel Quads is pretty stupid. Even if you already have a Intel 775 board and are looking to do a drop-in upgrade to a Quad, a 9400 or 9550 would be well worth saving up a few bucks for.
Wow... just... wow!
(07-31-2009, 07:57 AM)rene mauricio Wrote: [ -> ] (07-30-2009, 08:49 PM)abfab126 Wrote: [ -> ]i7 is useless at the moment.
What an ignorant thing to say. Wow!
The lowest i7 Quad can OC pretty easily to 4.0GHz. The newer revision of Q6600s (1.325 VID) struggle hard to make it past 3.[color=#FF0000]4[/color]GHz. A cheaper, better alternative, would be just about any Phenom II (take your pick from the ones I just posted one page back).
Recommending older Intel Quads is pretty stupid. Even if you already have a Intel 775 board and are looking to do a drop-in upgrade to a Quad, a 9400 or 9550 would be well worth saving up a few bucks for.
Wow... just... wow!
YEAH WHAT HE SAID!
rene is pretty protective of his i7... but he is right xD
Nah. I just don't want to see you guys make the same mistakes I did. Trust me.
X2 4200 to X2 5000 to E2180 to Q6600 (D0) to E8400 (C0) to Q6600 (G0 - 1.325 VID) to E8400 (E0) to Phenom II 940 to i7 920
(07-31-2009, 08:06 AM)rene mauricio Wrote: [ -> ]Nah. I just don't want to see you guys make the same mistakes I did. Trust me.
X2 4200 to X2 5000 to E2180 to Q6600 (D0) to E8400 (C0) to Q6600 (G0 - 1.325 VID) to E8400 (E0) to Phenom II 940 to i7 920
and the total is.... 99999999999999 USD >.<
(07-31-2009, 07:59 AM)THELUKESTIR Wrote: [ -> ]rene is pretty protective of his i7
he must do that....
new instructions of i7 are not used in dolphin, memory speed does not really matter in dolphin, more threads (SMT) are not used in dolphin.
yeah, every big advantage of i7 is useless for dolphin, what remains is a slight increase in per clock performance.
30% over c2d/q in dolphin ? no way.
Quote:The lowest i7 Quad can OC pretty easily to 4.0GHz
wow, EASY 4ghz...
4ghz is anything but easy. check xtremesystems.org with lots of good overclockers, still many dont manage to get 4ghz.
if it would be sure that i reach 4ghz i would buy one instantly.
in reality, average joe will have a hard time to reach 3,6-3,8ghz.
Rene you are just freakin Rich !
I would not listen to your advices anymore ( computer related ^^ ) and please dont call me ignorant or stupid again just because I dont want to spend 300 box every month for a cpu , ok !
And for all those who want to buy a i7 you have to buy ddr3 triple channel memory (3 gigs 150$) and a x58 motherboard(300$)
So Good Luck Rockfeller , I ll check your profile next month to see what you bought!
Definitely changing so often your processor shows that you know nothing about hardware (or you dont read the good reviews).A bit desapointed with your behaviour !