New Intel CPUs - anyone had much experience with them?

[maccatak11]

Computers are good

[Bacon]

Computers are good for fapping

FYP

[bennymacca]

this is what i am planning on getting at the moment - looks pretty schweet if you ask me. (btw all those with a current university email, you can get windows 7 for $50

Gigabyte X58A-UD3R LGA1366 DDR3 Motherboard______________________222
Intel Core i7 960 3.20Ghz LGA1366 CPU_______________________________309
Patriot Viper-Sector7 12GB Kit(4Gx3) DDR3 1600 (For Intel 1366pin Only)___199
WD 3.5" Black 1TB WD1002FAEX SATA3 7200rpm HDD__________________94
WD SATA 2TB HDD________________________________________________89
WD SATA 2TB HDD________________________________________________89
Windows 7 64 bit upgrade (its not cheating)_____________________________50
Total____________________________________________________________1052

[ibd77]

this is what i am planning on getting at the moment - looks pretty schweet if you ask me. (btw all those with a current university email, you can get windows 7 for $50

Gigabyte X58A-UD3R LGA1366 DDR3 Motherboard______________________222
Intel Core i7 960 3.20Ghz LGA1366 CPU_______________________________309
Patriot Viper-Sector7 12GB Kit(4Gx3) DDR3 1600 (For Intel 1366pin Only)___199
WD 3.5" Black 1TB WD1002FAEX SATA3 7200rpm HDD__________________94
WD SATA 2TB HDD________________________________________________89
WD SATA 2TB HDD________________________________________________89
Windows 7 64 bit upgrade (its not cheating)_____________________________50
Total____________________________________________________________1052

Thats a pretty good price and setup. Have you considered using a WD Raptor for your main operating system drive?

[bennymacca]

Thats a pretty good price and setup. Have you considered using a WD Raptor for your main operating system drive?

nah havent, i was mainly just researching the parts available on the msy website. will look into it though

[bennymacca]

just had a bit of a browse on the WD website, and they seem to be a fair bit out of my price range, listed as $350USD on the WD website. if i was looking at that price range, i would buy a solid state drive (which i will probably do in a few years time when they come down in price)

[gundog]

Like many here I now have preference for WD hard drives, previously I always specified Quantum Fireball HDD's the Quantum sold their HDD division to Maxtor who was gobbled up by Seagate. I not agreat fan of Seagate.

Before SATA, I always prefered SCSI drives over IDE

My current lappy has dual Hitachi 500GB drives and I use a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue as a back up drive via a USB to Sata cable.

[BigPete33]

I already mentioned the raptor drives benny the cunt, it'll mean your boot drive is a max of 600GB - otherwise they're awesome.

Good point about the price though, SSD's should come down a bit before too long (when they become a bit more mainstream) and they'll be the boot drive of choice I would think.

[bennymacca]

think i might be swinging back in favour of the 1155 pin chipset now. from what i have been reading, the 1366 pin chipset was originally intended as a higher end setup, but there haven't been any new additions to it in a while. so the 1155 pin is newer now.

either way its pretty similar i think

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25707 ... sing-parts

[BigPete33]

I was originally going to buy the i7-980X purely for longevity's sake. It's freakin' wicked expensive though.

That's a very good link benny the cunt.


Hope you read the part about power supplies