i7 920 to i7 970 worth it?

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Hello. Would spending ~ 250$ on an i7 970 be worth it for a gaming rig?

 

[tweakboy]

There will be improvement that is for sure. But its sorta a sidegrade.

upgrade is grab a cheap haswell mobo and get a 4770k 400 dolars cpu and mobo. gl

 

[Shephard]

Bad idea.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Good. Was out-bid at 265$

 

[PliotronX]

Good. Was out-bid at 265$

If that were the final price that's pretty nice as 920s are around that but I would put that towards a lightboost monitor or more RAM

 

[eoniverse]

Apologize for the hijack but don't see the value in starting a new thread since you have your answer and my question is related.

Curious because I am thinking about doing this upgrade to my i7- 920 DO x58.

If it was for a video rendering / transcoding rig....would that cost be worth it?? With no expectation to upgrade for three years until the Haswell-E multi cores drop in price.

 

[ehume]

Hello. Would spending ~ 250$ on an i7 970 be worth it for a gaming rig?

If you have an i7 920 and $250, now is the time to spend half that and get an SSD.

 

[YBS1]

Apologize for the hijack but don't see the value in starting a new thread since you have your answer and my question is related.

Curious because I am thinking about doing this upgrade to my i7- 920 DO x58.

If it was for a video rendering / transcoding rig....would that cost be worth it?? With no expectation to upgrade for three years until the Haswell-E multi cores drop in price.

I would expect so providing you get a decent price on a decent clocking cpu, the extra cores really come into their own for transcoding. See the Handbrake benchmarking thread, though they have taken down the scoreboard, you'll still be able to get an idea by browsing through the screenshots/posts. The 6 cores pretty much romped.

 

[Burpo]

Apologize for the hijack but don't see the value in starting a new thread since you have your answer and my question is related.

Curious because I am thinking about doing this upgrade to my i7- 920 DO x58.

If it was for a video rendering / transcoding rig....would that cost be worth it?? With no expectation to upgrade for three years until the Haswell-E multi cores drop in price.

That's all I do, video rendering/transcoding and it's 5-6 times faster than my old quad core..

Xeon L5639 6 cores and easy clocker.. 85 bux (OBO) on ebay..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-XEON-...366-/151125323916?pt=CPUs&hash=item232fc5708c



Edit: Oops I see now your sig: Rig 1 Xeon L5639, Why would you want a 970 that's 3X the $$ and uses 2X the power for marginal performance gains?

 

[mindbomb]

iv seen the xeon equivalent of i7 960 go for <$100.
The high multi really helps with the overclocks.
quad cores with hyperthreading are a good bet for future game i think.

 

[dmoney1980]

Op- I agree with burpo. I picked up the 6 core Xeon l5639 for $85 on eBay. I have it OC'd to 3.6 ghz

 

[Bad Dude]

I have the i7 920 at 4Ghz running on the Asus P6T for some years now. Would this Xeon L5639 works on this same board? Would I be able to gain much from this processor upgrade?
Thanks.

 

[tweakboy]

No it wont work with same board. That is server mobo.

 

[Burpo]

Yes, it works great on that board (good power section). Cinebench 11.5 score usually 1 1/2 X whatever your score, Def worth the upgrade considering you can sell the 920

 

[Bad Dude]

Yes, it works great on that board (good power section). Cinebench 11.5 score usually 1 1/2 X whatever your score, Def worth the upgrade considering you can sell the 920

So it's about 50% faster than my i7-920 even at 4Ghz overclock? So the 2 cores more is worth that.
I might just do that. I don't have a need to upgrade more than what I have already. Maybe upgrade my video card from the 6950-2GB Dirt 3.

Thanks.

 

[webmaster1]

Hello,
Well $265 is not bad for i7....
So be cool and enjoy your time..

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I passed on it. I do have an L5639 in my Asrock X58 Xtreme in my main rig in sig. My Rev1 EVGA 760 A1 won't accept it without a hard-mod, which i've seen is fairly easy, but that dang multi, aurgh. My board will do 221 but i'm just not into doing the mod. Maybe i'll get a little antsy and give it a try over the winter but my 920, even at stock speeds (chip has never been overclocked, my other 920 will do 4.2GHz but runs better at 3.9Ghz) even at stock speeds my i7 is decent with Unreal Tournament III. The dips are further but manageable.