I actually think it's not really worth it getting i7, and think everyone should get dual core Phenom 2 550s or Core2 E8400s Phenom II x3 720's (better price/value than E8400) or something, but that's probably just me. Because in normal loading windows and everyday stuff like that, i7 won't be much faster than E8400, since that's HDD bottlenecked (and you really don't need much CPU power to load MS word), and in playing games, i7 won't be much faster than E8400 either, since games are GPU bottlenecked (can't really look at these review benchmarks alone, because they use beast GPUs to isolate CPU performance, when in reality, you'll just get GPU bottleneck). So the performance increase is quite limited for the extra money it costs. Ofcourse, i7 does have the advantage that 3 years later, it's still decent, while E8400 probably not.

But anyway, whatever makes you happy :)

SchmilK Wrote:same...those cpu are SOOOOO damn fast!  In windows you get to watch 8 processor threads bouncing!!

Windows is like all HDD dependent, CPU really doesn't matter much. By brother's pissweak netbook Atom (single core, 1.6GHz) boots windows faster than my overclocked quad.

SchmilK Wrote:Apparently the newer i7 8xx CPUs are actually faster than the 920, plus they run on a P55 chipset, so I'd wait for at least those to come out.

Then there's i5 (think i7 but more mid range) as well, and that seems pretty promising (as of now).

(This post was last modified: 18/09/2009 09:41 PM by Assassinator.)