Originally posted by: TidusZ
Originally posted by: tim924
Meaningless thread started by OP,if he did a little bit research about what kind of improvements he would get with i7,he shouldnt be dissapointed at all,however if he knew nothing about it,and just bought it to play games(with a single gpu most likely),and now starts complaining just because he's getting nearly the same frame rates like his c2q or c2d did,I can only say that sorry bro you didnt do your homework before hand to understand what you are getting,if you were looking plainly for gaming performance,you shouldnt bother with i7(yet),since at this point,it's the software programming bottlenecking
i7's potenial to fully show its capability,but anyways even if you are a gamer,try to play with some sli/crossfire set-up ,it will definitely show you the improvements then,if not it's rather you are not utililizing its potenial,cause it's gpu bottleneck there.
The thing is I have done my homework and I haven't bought an i7.
My main usage is for gaming, I don't do 3d rendering or encoding. There's been some good comments here and I mean, if I was working for a render farm or something I'd be singing the i7's praises, but I'm just a hardcore gamer who mostly plays rts.
I'm going to have to skip on i7 for now, its just not worth it, and that disappoints me that my options right now for upgrading from my
e4300 @3.15 aren't as great as I had hoped they'd be. I may just wait another 6 or even 12 months, since getting a wolfdale isn't really a big enough upgrade to me at this point either (close though).