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[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

I'm building a new computer and I'm having trouble deciding on what to buy. I don't want to turn this into a fan boy flame war, but I know this is the internets...

Ordinarily I'm a solid AMD guy. The price/performance ratio has always been where I've been at. However I'm
planning on blowing a good chunk of my tax refund money, so price is not so much of an issue.

So here's my typical use/setup:

Dual boot system. Vista and Debian. Windows is exclusivly used for gaming and nothing else. Linux is my real workhorse. I do a lot of video/audio mastering and conversions.

I also have encrypted harddrives.

Its not unusal for me to use 4 to 6 desktops (KDE) and 10 to 12 applications simultaneously. I occasionaly do some compiling and almost always run BOINC in the backround.

What would you pick and why?

i7 920, i7 860, i5 750 or phenom 965?

Modifié par Snaggletooth the Pirate, 08 janvier 2010 - 03:21 .

[Elhanan]

Techless One here....



Based solely on feedback from others, I would go with Win7 Pro over Vista for future gaming adds, plus Pro also has XP/ Vista Simulator, I believe.



If price is no issue, then I would choose the i7 920. But as I have money issues, I am staying with the i5 750.

[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

@Elhanan

I probably wont buy another version of windows. I'll probably just kill the old machine and migrate the license to the new one. The only reason I even have this one is microsoft gave computer sci students at my college a free OS.

But I'll chalk up one vote for the 920.

Modifié par Snaggletooth the Pirate, 08 janvier 2010 - 04:02 .

[bradley02391]

I7 good CPU low power, runs way better than AMD look on the charts AMD suck compared to intell in performance since intell is bringing their price down in their cpu's soon (dont no when but they are) also intell has the technology AMD has now with their new i7 cpu's to directly connect to the memory ill have to go with i7 but that comes at big cost.

Modifié par bradley02391, 08 janvier 2010 - 03:42 .

[whtnyte-raernst]

The biggest feature of the new Intel chips is lower power consumption and lower heat generation. Given that these two things are common to all the i7 chips you have listed, and money is not an issue, get the biggest bang you can get!

[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

@ bradley02391

That AMD processor listed actually beats the i7's on numerous cryptographic benchmarks.

They are all good processors, but they have different abilities.

The i7 860 beats the 920 in a lot of benchmarks, but the 920 has triple channel memory and higher pci bandwidth for crossfire/sli

Modifié par Snaggletooth the Pirate, 08 janvier 2010 - 03:52 .

[whtnyte-raernst]

If you want a good Crossfire/SLI configuration, you should consider a Gigabyte mother board. They are constructed to reduce heat an power use also. But you have to match what you want with the CPU/GPU combination you desire.

For example, my MB accommodates Intel CPUs and ATI GPUs. I can put an Nvidia card in it, but I can't do SLI. The two PCIx16 slots are configured for Crossfire dual GPU only.

[bradley02391]

I reckon you are a little Amd bias but i have to say intell all around is probably better than Amd since with the price drop coming its better for value.

[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

@ whtnyte-raernst



I was not aware of that some motherboards could be crossfire but not sli compatible, I'll be sure to watch my chipsets and specifications.

[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

@ bradley02391



no bias, I will fully admit that AMD gets beat by those intel cpu's in every other benchmark. However I have encrypted hard drives, so that could potentially be a factor.

[Tyrax Lightning]

Consider this combo as a possibility:

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813128392

CPU: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819103656

Graphics Card: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102837

[Althernai]

Snaggletooth the Pirate wrote...

Its not unusal for me to use 4 to 6 desktops (KDE) and 10 to 12 applications simultaneously. I occasionaly do some compiling and almost always run BOINC in the backround.

What would you pick and why?

i7 920, i7 860, i5 750 or phenom 965?

You have one of the rare usage scenarios in which the hyperthreading of the Core i7s might actually be useful. I would go with the 860 -- the TDPs of both the Phenom 965 and the i7 920 are substantially higher

[Snaggletooth the Pirate]

@althernai



yeah my usage is definitely not typical... I wonder most about bottlenecking from encryption and 16x vs. 8x in an sli or crossfire situation.

[Tyrax Lightning]

Update to my above suggestions: Found RAM for the above Motherboard too:

RAM: http://www.amazon.co...63176594&sr=8-3

Hope i'm helping.

[Sa Seba]

If you tell us your budget, we can give more specific suggestions.