If your budget is $250 then definitely go for the 7850. The 7850 performs very closely to a 6950 which beats a 560 Ti most of the time, sometimes by a lot.
looks like Tigerdirect has a bunch of GTX 560 Ti cards in stock, I just wanna see the reviews, it would be nice to see reviews of the 6950 1GB version too, those are available now too it seems and priced about the same as the GTX 560 Ti.
I know it's not midnight on the west coast yet but usually sites like anandtech and tomshardware will put the reviews up at midnight eastern time and newegg will put the cards up on their site at that time as well. Did the launch get delayed?
If you plan to SLI/CrossFire, it appears that the UD7 is the only board with 16X/16X lanes. Not that there's that much actual performance loss running 8X/8X, but it would be a shame to throttle back a pair of 580s, even a little.
jevery57
The Asus Maximus IV Extreme also allows 16X/16X on the P67
Hyper threading to me is sooooo nice. I can put a giant skybox on my map in hammer editor and make fancy map editors grow angry because they are on their slow single cores.
JigglyWiggly_
If HyperThreading is so great then why does the i5 2500K wipe the floor with the i7 975 (and only slightly behind the i7 2600K) in most multi threaded aps? HT matters more with single or dual cores, less with quads.
I you wanna SLi or Xfire you might wanna wait for the X68 chipset and Sandy Bridge E processors, then you can run both your cards at 16x. with the P67 chipset if you run two cards they will both run at 8x. If you game at low resolutions there won't be too much of a loss in performance but anything above 1080p and the gap will start to widen. The X68 boards will use a different LGA 2011 CPU socket, feature quad channel memory and introduce PCI Express 3.0. They're due out like Q4 of this year.
Asus does make one P67 board, the Maximus IV Extreme that has an extra nvidia chip which adds more PCI Express lanes and can allow both cards to run at 16x but it costs like $350 probably. Gigabyte makes one too the GA-P67A-UD7 ($320 @ Newegg)
As for the case I own the Armor+ and while it was a good case I upgraded to the CoolerMaster HAF X and the HAF X is light years better than the Armor+ in every way. I kept the Armor+ though and dumped my secondary rig into it.
Yeah I'm definitely going with the Asus P8P67 Deluxe. Over the years I've tried all brands but now I stick with Asus cause they're the most reliable, the least fussy about memory compatibility, the most stable and have great layouts, features and software. The P6T Deluxe V2 I currently run has been the best mobo I've ever owned, never had any problems, not even a BSOD and it ran Vista until 7 came out and even in Vista I never had any issues.
I think Intel marketed the 2500K as an i5 to get suckers to shell out for the i7 name, but really when you look at benchmarks there's not that much difference between the 2500K and 2600K, certainly nothing that warrants an extra $105. Why pay a 50% premium if you're not going to get 50% more performance out of it. HyperThreading isn't that important on quad cores since most multi-threaded aps support 4 threads max.
I have a Thermaltake Armor MX+ mid tower case, it has pretty nice airflow with a big side fan. yeah those are the core temps, all 4 cores are usually bout the same temps, I use RealTemp. As for prime95 i've been scared to try...
I was just wondering if my Core i7 920 temps were high or not. I live in Vegas and its very hot in the summer here and my ambient temp in the house is about 26-28 C and my i7 is overclocked to 3.2GHz from the standard 2.66Ghz. I'm using a Cooler Master N520 HSF with Arctic Silver 5 compound.
The rig has been running fine for over a year but I just wanted to hear what other people thought of my temps compared to theirs or others they've seen. at idle my temps are about 45 C under medium load bout 53 C and about 60C under heavy load.
They just seem really high to me. I used to live in a cooler climates and my CPUs usually idled in the 30s so that's why I'm wondering. TIA for your responses.
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