Any of you with high clocked 920s going SB?

[Zebo]

I've had same computer going on two years now. 920 @ 4.2 on water. Water prevents upgrading as much since it's a pain the butt to swap parts but I like quietness, especially with a video card which are difficult to cool quiet at high end. I don't think I'm going to upgrade. How about y'all. Is it worth it?

 

[Rifter]

Im not, not till 2011 or later. Or i bite on some GPU's before then that my 4.2Ghz i7 cant handle(unlikely).

 

[Xpage]

Get a compatible motherboard such several P67 ASROCK models or the ASUS P8P67, where you can reuse your old WC equipment since they have compatible mounting holes.

Eg) http://www.asrock.com/MB/overview.asp?Model=P67%20Pro3

 

[Spikesoldier]

going to chill for a year probably with my i5 lynnfield 4.0 and 4890's.

wake me up when the new amd chip and new lga 1366 replacement is out.

 

[Makaveli]

No point performance difference is not large enough to go socket 1155 that is pretty much a sidegrade.

The next logical upgrade would be socket 2011 and SB-E.

My next upgrade is to move off my 4890 and to go up to 12GB's of ram.

 

[masteryoda34]

I've had same computer going on two years now. 920 @ 4.2 on water. Water prevents upgrading as much since it's a pain the butt to swap parts but I like quietness, especially with a video card which are difficult to cool quiet at high end. I don't think I'm going to upgrade. How about y'all. Is it worth it?

Also running 920 @ 4.2 on water. The most I could get out of Sandy Bridge is maybe 400MHz faster clock with OC. That would certainly not be worth the price of a new Motherboard and CPU (and the loss of Memory and PCI-E bandwidth, albeit these are not significant).

 

[byteman99]

I've been with my 920 for 2 years now at stock speed. Been trying to overclock to 3.8 but can only get to 3.6 max. Sandy Bridge is looking kinda tempting seeing as how its able to do 4.4 on stock cooling. But so far I really havent felt all that cpu limited in the games I play. On the other hand, I been wanting to change motherboards for a while now. Most likely I think I will stick with my current platform. Sure I cant get those high overclocks that you guys are getting but it's still no slouch.

 

[Spikesoldier]

I've been with my 920 for 2 years now at stock speed. Been trying to overclock to 3.8 but can only get to 3.6 max. Sandy Bridge is looking kinda tempting seeing as how its able to do 4.4 on stock cooling. But so far I really havent felt all that cpu limited in the games I play. On the other hand, I been wanting to change motherboards for a while now. Most likely I think I will stick with my current platform. Sure I cant get those high overclocks that you guys are getting but it's still no slouch.

ever more reason to sit back and wait for the gulftowns to come down in price.

 

[Makaveli]

You may see a drop in price for the 970 but the 980x price will remain high, intel rarely drops prices on Extreme edition processors. A simple search of previous Extreme edition processors and their current price will reflex this.

 

[Shmee]

maybe if I want to get a good gaming notebook, but not for my main system or second system. I have a 980x and a 920 D0. 920 D0 does 4.2.

 

[Jacky60]

Going to wait for IvyBridge and or 6 cores. While I like the idea of Sandybridge the cost of modo and cpu isn't worth 5 fps or therebouts to me.

 

[Habeed]

i7 930 @ 4.1 for me. Ditto to all the above : assuming I could run a Sandybridge @ 4.5 ghz 24/7 at a safe voltage for a 32nm, then it's about a 17% performance boost factoring in the IPC improvements of Sandybridge.

But it would be a side-grade : no triple channel memory, no SLI with x16 lanes for both cards, and only 8 gigs of RAM with current modules sizes. And it is a pain in the butt to rebuild a system that you've spent a month tuning.

The minimum upgrade that would be worth disassembling my rig for would be a 6 core sandybridge.

I'm thinking I'll wait for an 8 core IvyBridge that costs under $350 for the unlocked chip. Probably a year to 18 months away.

 

[Castiel]

i7 930 @ 4.1 for me. Ditto to all the above : assuming I could run a Sandybridge @ 4.5 ghz 24/7 at a safe voltage for a 32nm, then it's about a 17% performance boost factoring in the IPC improvements of Sandybridge.

But it would be a side-grade : no triple channel memory, no SLI with x16 lanes for both cards, and only 8 gigs of RAM with current modules sizes. And it is a pain in the butt to rebuild a system that you've spent a month tuning.

The minimum upgrade that would be worth disassembling my rig for would be a 6 core sandybridge.

I'm thinking I'll wait for an 8 core IvyBridge that costs under $350 for the unlocked chip. Probably a year to 18 months away.

I don't ever see an 8 core chip being under 350 dollars. Cheapest i see an 8 core chip is 1200 dollars

 

[Habeed]

"Ever" is a strong word. You can grab a 6 core right now for 540 bucks on ebay. (it's the 970, but they overclock just as high as a 980x)

And the $317 sandy bridge (2600k) blows the doors off every $999 extreme edition processor ever released except for the 980x in some benchmarks.

 

[exar333]

I'm good with my i7 920 until later this year for possibly a sockey 2011 build or a cheap hexacore on my existing 1366 system (if that ever comes).

 

[Attic]

i7 930 @ 4.1 for me. Ditto to all the above : assuming I could run a Sandybridge @ 4.5 ghz 24/7 at a safe voltage for a 32nm, then it's about a 17% performance boost factoring in the IPC improvements of Sandybridge.

But it would be a side-grade : no triple channel memory, no SLI with x16 lanes for both cards, and only 8 gigs of RAM with current modules sizes. And it is a pain in the butt to rebuild a system that you've spent a month tuning.

The minimum upgrade that would be worth disassembling my rig for would be a 6 core sandybridge.

I'm thinking I'll wait for an 8 core IvyBridge that costs under $350 for the unlocked chip. Probably a year to 18 months away.

The boards support 32gb's and you can get 16gb's@1600mhz(4x4gb's) for ~$220 today.

 

[Zebo]

i7 930 @ 4.1 for me. Ditto to all the above : assuming I could run a Sandybridge @ 4.5 ghz 24/7 at a safe voltage for a 32nm, then it's about a 17% performance boost factoring in the IPC improvements of Sandybridge.

But it would be a side-grade : no triple channel memory, no SLI with x16 lanes for both cards, and only 8 gigs of RAM with current modules sizes. And it is a pain in the butt to rebuild a system that you've spent a month tuning.

The minimum upgrade that would be worth disassembling my rig for would be a 6 core sandybridge.

I'm thinking I'll wait for an 8 core IvyBridge that costs under $350 for the unlocked chip. Probably a year to 18 months away.

LOL Only 8 gigs I've never used over 3 have 6 just in case...

Had some serious longevity in this setup. I used to rebuild at least once a year now it seems like 3 years will be no problem...Bloomfield has to be one of the best CPUs of all time.

I had a e8400 for like 6mo, before that a e6300, before that the Athlon/operons 64s many of them before that northwoods and athlon xps again many... kinda cool not to worry.

 

[Markfw]

I won't convert, but I may get one to play with and add to my fleet.

 

[coffeejunkee]

I wouldn't upgrade from a 4/4.2 GHz Bloomfield for performance reasons. But the power savings could be significant (especially for the poster above me).

 

[fire400]

a pentium d?

...lol

i920?

pd920?