i7 920 vs i5 750 (same price)

[DrMrLordX]

I'm going to nitpick, because this bugs me all the time when i see it posted.

YOU DO NOT REQUIRE 3 DIMMS FOR X58!

Repeat after me: 3 DIMMs is in no way, shape, or form imperative.

Yes, and that G.Skill ECO DDR3 would go very nicely in a LGA1366 system, even if you "only" had two sticks.

Or you could buy three kits for 6-DIMM madness. Whee!

Seriously though, it is kinda funny when people pop up and say that LGA1366 is bad because you "need" a tri-channel kit.

 

[n7]

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Or you could buy three kits for 6-DIMM madness. Whee!

Yeah, three 2x2 GB kits would be nice (though a 3x4 GB kit would be nicer).

X58 is "bad" because the motherboards are horribly overpriced.
You guys in the US seem to get these good deals sometimes, & have Microcenter's dirt cheap i7 920s, but here in Canada, it's a LOT more for the cheapest X58 board than it is a for a good P55/H55 board.

Basically it's over $200 CND for an X58 board i'd consider buying, & it's <$150 for P55s.

Not to mention that i don't feel Hyperthreading is very helpful to the large majority of people, especially not really in games at least for the next little while, which is why i consider a good P55 + i5 750 to be a far better deal for high end bang for buck.

 

[BeatCrazy]

Is hyperthreading going to make a difference with video encoding?

 

[Markfw]

is hyperthreading going to make a difference with video encoding?

yes

 

[BeatCrazy]

yes

Thanks. Any thoughts on my previous dilemma?


http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29463775&postcount=25

 

[Markfw]

Thanks. Any thoughts on my previous dilemma?


http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29463775&postcount=25

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813157163R $119
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277 $105

Thats only 4 gig, but WOW, memory has gone up lately, so I say use 4 gig for now, and add more later. Its $50 more for 2 more gig, and thats $20-25 over your budget.

 

[BeatCrazy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813157163R $119
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277 $105

Thats only 4 gig, but WOW, memory has gone up lately, so I say use 4 gig for now, and add more later. Its $50 more for 2 more gig, and thats $20-25 over your budget.

So you think that ASRock X58 is as good as my EVGA P55 SLI? I'm not going to be doing much gaming, I'm more concerned with features and stability.

That is the exact RAM I was planning on sticking in my EVGA P55 board.

The combo you linked to above would cost me about the exact same as an i7-860 + EVGA P55 SLI + RAM. Is the X58/920 combo going to give me a noticible improvement?

 

[Markfw]

X58 in general is more robust in general. I think it has all the same features, but I could be wrong.

 

[2March]

X58 is "bad" because the motherboards are horribly overpriced.
You guys in the US seem to get these good deals sometimes, & have Microcenter's dirt cheap i7 920s, but here in Canada, it's a LOT more for the cheapest X58 board than it is a for a good P55/H55 board.

Basically it's over $200 CND for an X58 board i'd consider buying, & it's <$150 for P55s.

They aren't overpriced, they simply are better equipped. I thought the same thing but when I checked I noticed there are no really cheap 1366 mb's but there are for 1156. If you compare the features the difference in price is about 15 - 20 euro's. 860's are often a tad more expensive than 920's aswell. Unless I was planning on building a really cheap low equipped system I wouldn't hesitate. 920 all the way.

 

[deerhunter716]

If this is for gaming like another poster said go the CHEAPER route and put that $ into a nice video card. You will NOT notice any difference at all in your gaming with either CPU. The synthetic benchmarks show differences but NOTHING ever noticeable while gaming period.

 

[SR1729]

From everything I've read, the 920 runs fairly warm at stock speeds with stock cooling, which doesn't seem to be the case for the 750. So even if you don't want to OC, an aftermarket cooling solution is all but mandatory for the 920. $199 quickly becomes $250, in addition to the more expensive mobo options.

So on the surface, the two chips appear to be the same price. But they clearly are not when everything else is factored in.

 

[BladeVenom]

Where are they the same price? Even at Microcenter the i5 750 is $179.99 and the i7 920 is $199.99. Every other place I've seen the difference is even larger.

 

[BeatCrazy]

Well, I ended up going the i7-920/X58 route, and returned my P55 EVGA board. It was about $100 to move up to the X58 platform, hopefully hyperthreading will help out a bit in video encodes.