Luke_Uk_Baggy
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Hi all,
The new Intel Sandybridge processors are now out. Just wandering wether anyone has had a chance to play with them yet, or has immersed themselves in enough research to give educated responses!
Building a new high ish end rig, and am looking at the new i5-2500k 3.3GHZ processor. (cost to me £180) the i7-2600k 3.4GHZ is £80 at £260. Wandering if its worth the extra 80 for the additional 4 threads.
Also, Motherboard wise, are the new Intel P67 chipsets the only way to go really? the H67 boards dont overclock the Sandybridges as well do they? (I only ask this because I know the sandybridge CPU runs off the same BUS / clock, so overclocking that way makes it very difficult to see much of a benefit)
Furthermore, I have heard a lot of good things about the Sandybridge, and just wandering if anyone can make assumptions as to how futureproof an i5-2500k with a P67 Pro motherboard would be? Guessing this setup would be better than say an AMD 6core setup.
The new rig should be able to handle Crysis sort of games on medium / high settings with decent / good avg fps rate. Not too fussed with media editting side of things, although dont want to discount light editing.
Im opting for the i5 over the i7 because from benches etc I think you get a fair bit more bang for your buck, and I want a fairly high end rig, without too much cost (I.e Intels i7 extremes etc)
Any pros and cons? Thoughts? etc.
The new Intel Sandybridge processors are now out. Just wandering wether anyone has had a chance to play with them yet, or has immersed themselves in enough research to give educated responses!
Building a new high ish end rig, and am looking at the new i5-2500k 3.3GHZ processor. (cost to me £180) the i7-2600k 3.4GHZ is £80 at £260. Wandering if its worth the extra 80 for the additional 4 threads.
Also, Motherboard wise, are the new Intel P67 chipsets the only way to go really? the H67 boards dont overclock the Sandybridges as well do they? (I only ask this because I know the sandybridge CPU runs off the same BUS / clock, so overclocking that way makes it very difficult to see much of a benefit)
Furthermore, I have heard a lot of good things about the Sandybridge, and just wandering if anyone can make assumptions as to how futureproof an i5-2500k with a P67 Pro motherboard would be? Guessing this setup would be better than say an AMD 6core setup.
The new rig should be able to handle Crysis sort of games on medium / high settings with decent / good avg fps rate. Not too fussed with media editting side of things, although dont want to discount light editing.
Im opting for the i5 over the i7 because from benches etc I think you get a fair bit more bang for your buck, and I want a fairly high end rig, without too much cost (I.e Intels i7 extremes etc)
Any pros and cons? Thoughts? etc.