My new i7 whattcha think? Pictures uploaded :D

[EW]

Right im new to the whole "building" part of computing so first go at it.

no doubt im gonna get stuck so please help me when i do ;)

specs...... all order and will arive on 16th june 2009.

 

please comment say whatever, but dont hate coz im alittle unsure about my desisions but meh.

 

• Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) + World In Conflict PC Game
  

 

• XFX GeForce GTX 275 XXX Edition 896MB GDDR3 Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
  

 

• Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
  

 

• Coolermaster Storm 'Sniper' Gamer Case - Black (No PSU)
  

 

• Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) Intel XMP DDR3 PC3-14900C9 Tri-Channel (KHX14900D3T1K3/6GX)
  

 

• Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache (ST31500341AS)
  

 

• Samsung SM933SN 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor (LS19CMYKF/EN) ( plus my 32" already owned )
  

 

• OCZ StealthXStream 900w Silent ATX2 Power Supply
  

 

• Sony Optiarc AD-7201S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black)
  

 

ill be adding pictures whilst im building it on tuesday (got the day of work for this ;) )

[beem3r]

Looks waaay too good :p

 

But isn't 18,5" a little small? imo 22" or more ;)

[Nipper]

Until now, I wasn't aware they sold monitors/TV's in half inches. :o

 

Looks good, i7 is immense. :)

[Camel]

Until now, I wasn't aware they sold monitors/TV's in half inches. :o

 

Looks good, i7 is immense. :)

 

Me neither, but I use my HDTV as a monitor :D

 

Good luck with the build, you can't really go wrong with it.. unless you don't use your eyes or you need to RMA a component.

 

Should be a decent computer that will last for many years.

[EW]

the 18" is just when im doing work, i got a 32" hd for my xbox and ps3 that ill use.....

 

bought that one coz it matches the bigger one i got :D

[SLRRR]

What are you going to do with your pc? games etc...? it looks like a overkill now :)

[EW]

What are you going to do with your pc? games etc...? it looks like a overkill now :)

 

er dunno, dont really play xbox or ps3 anymore so i guess ill become a complete pc nerd :(

 

as for my laptop im kepping it, still beats most on the market and its nice to be able to move around :D

[SLRRR]

Why on earth do you go for a i7 than? If you're dont play much games on the pc or do any photoshopping things etc...?

 

My advice is to go for something like this

 

 

Processor:

AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

 

 

Videocard

Ati 4850

Ati 4870 (512mb or 1Gb depends on the resolution off your screen)

 

 

 

I dont know what your budget is and what you're planning to do with your pc :)

[EW]

Why on earth do you go for a i7 than? If you're dont play much games on the pc or do any photoshopping things etc...?

 

My advice is to go for something like this

 

 

Processor:

AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

 

 

Videocard

Ati 4850

Ati 4870 (512mb or 1Gb depends on the resolution off your screen)

too late XD anyways i wanna be able to play crysisi just for the bragging rights, i left xbox maybe pc gaming will be more entertaining, besides i got the money atm so why not? :thumbsup:

[SLRRR]

too late XD anyways i wanna be able to play crysisi just for the bragging rights, i left xbox maybe pc gaming will be more entertaining, besides i got the money atm so why not? :thumbsup:

 

:p

 

Okey well Crysis 2 is coming for the pc/xbox/ps3, but it will look the best on the pc offcourse :)

[EW]

:p

 

Okey well Crysis 2 is coming for the pc/xbox/ps3, but it will look the best on the pc offcourse :)

 

yea the graphics on the first one looks imense, we'll see it may turn out that i only use this for my work/education but hey we'll see what happens

[ShadowGT]

6 gigs RAM is way to much overkill. atleast 2 gigs of it will never get utilized.

[Loz]

too late XD anyways i wanna be able to play crysisi just for the bragging rights, i left xbox maybe pc gaming will be more entertaining, besides i got the money atm so why not? :thumbsup:

 

So you are spending several hundered pounds to play Crysis. Seems quite like a waste of money to me.

 

My PC can play Crysis on full, and i only have a Dual Core at the minute. I have a Quad waiting to be put in though, just need a new motherboard.

 

My advice, get a Quad Core, or The best Dual Core and Overclock the hell out of it. Will cost less that an i7.

[HavockJoker]

Like the i7 rig, Pretty close to mine. I would have recommended the P6T Deluxe V2 Mobo, but I don't know if that would be in your budget.

[EW]

So you are spending several hundered pounds to play Crysis. Seems quite like a waste of money to me.

 

My PC can play Crysis on full, and i only have a Dual Core at the minute. I have a Quad waiting to be put in though, just need a new motherboard.

 

My advice, get a Quad Core, or The best Dual Core and Overclock the hell out of it. Will cost less that an i7.

its not just for cyrisis, i bought the i7 as a future proof...... it will last me a long time and i bought the best i could.

 

as for "waste of money" dont hate just because its to much for you.....

[SLRRR]

yea the graphics on the first one looks imense, we'll see it may turn out that i only use this for my work/education but hey we'll see what happens

 

Crysis is a very good FPS untill the Aliens come that really ruins the game. But you can create new maps etc... with the editor and there's multiplayer (never played mp so i dont know what's like).

[EW]

for all you people that are hating because your jealoous i guess :/

 

check this out!!!!

 

 

[Tard666Evil]

this looks like it's gonna be a sick rig. extremely nice specs. that is a 50+ fps in crysis rig all the way :thumbsup:

[SLRRR]

for all you people that are hating because your jealoous i guess :/

 

check this out!!!!

 

 

 

 

Here are some benchmarks compared to other processors :)

 

Crysis Warhead

We measured Warhead performance using the FRAPS frame-rate recording tool and playing over the same 60-second section of the game five times on each processor. This method has the advantage of simulating real gameplay quite closely, but it comes at the expense of precise repeatability. We believe five sample sessions are sufficient to get reasonably consistent results. In addition to average frame rates, we've included the low frame rates, because those tend to reflect the user experience in performance-critical situations. In order to diminish the effect of outliers, we've reported the median of the five low frame rates we encountered.

We tested at at relatively modest graphics settings, 1024x768 resolution with the game's "Mainstream" quality settings, because we didn't want our graphics card to be the performance-limiting factor. This is, after all, a CPU test.

When I first set out to put together our CPU test suite, I honestly wondered whether we could find any games that are really CPU-limited these days. Many of them are console ports and simply don't require much CPU power to run well. This game is an exception, obviously. Like most games, however, Warhead doesn't look to be heavily multithreaded, since our two dual-core processors perform relatively well here compared to their lower-speed quad-core siblings.

The top two spots are occupied by the Core i7-965 Extreme, with the non-Hyper-Threaded config proving to be a little faster—no surprise given this game's lack of robust multithreading. Turning off HT and doing away with its partitioning of some on-chip resources does seem to offer a bit of a performance boost in the right situation.

Far Cry 2: Far Cry-ier

After playing around with Far Cry 2, I decided to test it a little bit differently by recording frame rates during the jeep ride sequence at the very beginning of the game. I found that frame rates during this sequence were generally similar to those when running around elsewhere in the game, and after all, playing Far Cry 2 involves quite a bit of driving around. Since this sequence was repeatable, I just captured results from three 90-second sessions.

Again, I didn't want the graphics card to be our primary performance constraint, so although I tested at fairly high visual quality levels, I used a relatively low 1024x768 display resolution and DirectX 9.

The 965 Extreme again takes the top spots, but the Core i7-920 finishes in mid-pack, behind the Core 2 Quad 9300.

 

 

Unreal Tournament 3

As you saw on the preceding page, I did manage to find a couple of CPU-limited games to use in testing. I decided to try to concoct another interesting scenario by setting up a 24-player CTF game on UT3's epic Facing Worlds map, in which I was the only human player. The rest? Bots controlled by the CPU. I racked up frags like mad while capturing five 60-second gameplay sessions for each processor.

Oh, and the screen resolution was set to 1280x1024 for testing, with UT3's default quality options and "framerate smoothing" disabled.

We're looking at playable frame rates with pretty much every processor tested, but we do seem to have sorted out the faster CPUs from the slower ones. Notice that the dual-core processors don't fare as well here; some degree of multithreading seems to be at work.

 

All of the Core i7 processors finish strong, even the 920. However, the 940's victory over the 965 Extreme is a reminder of how much variability is possible when testing in this manner.

Half Life 2: Episode Two

Our next test is a good, old custom-recorded in-game timedemo, precisely repeatable.

Ok, so we have frame rates well into the hundreds, but at least Episode Two's ceiling is high enough to show us the differences between the CPUs. Clock for clock, the Core i7 doesn't look to be much faster than the Core 2 here.

Source engine particle simulation

Next up is a test we picked up during a visit to Valve Software, the developers of the Half-Life games. They had been working to incorporate support for multi-core processors into their Source game engine, and they cooked up some benchmarks to demonstrate the benefits of multithreading.

This test runs a particle simulation inside of the Source engine. Most games today use particle systems to create effects like smoke, steam, and fire, but the realism and interactivity of those effects are limited by the available computing horsepower. Valve's particle system distributes the load across multiple CPU cores.

Chalk up a win for Hyper-Threading now that we have a nicely multithreaded application, and consider the Core i7's dominance here. Even the 920 is faster than the Skulltrail dual-QX9775 system with its eight Penryn cores.

 

 

 

Source:http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15818/6

[ShadowGT]

aww why isn't my core 2 duo in that list :(

[EW]

Here are some benchmarks compared to other processors :)

 

 

 

Source:http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15818/6

 

 

cheers SLRRR :thumbsup:

that chart is actually pretty darn cool lol....

 

so people from now on dont hate on the i7 coz as u can see, its the shizzle :D

 

love ya's.......

 

any ideas for a really good mouse?

[ShadowGT]

Logitech G9 Gaming mouse.

[EW]

Logitech G9 Gaming mouse.

expensive?

[Loz]

I highly doubt im jealous of you getting an i7. And it's not like i can't get one if i want. I just don't think it's worth it at the minute. Certainly when not much is really compatible with it, from what i've heard.

[EW]

I highly doubt im jealous of you getting an i7. And it's not like i can't get one if i want. I just don't think it's worth it at the minute. Certainly when not much is really compatible with it, from what i've heard.

did you take the time to look at those charts, im not bragging in anyway im clearly saying that your look on things is wrong the i7 is compatable with most if not all harware that is with today new technology..... it is by far the "best" atm...

you say u can get one if you want then how come (it being the best atm) you havent purchased it or bought the amd equivelent?????

 

if you hate on it, then why comment?