Ok so I am 42 and have been building my own PC's since my first 386 in the early 90's. That being said I got used to a 2-3 year refresh and would save up appx 2k to build a new rig every 2-3 years. Wel that seems to have changed when on 4/16/2009 (looked up my newegg order history) I purchased this chip
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W
Water Cooled running at 3.4 ghz stable for appx 4 years, well all i do is write sql so select DATEDIFF(DAY,'4/16/2009', getdate()) = 1527days
So I go an buy this nice new 60" LG LED LCD w/3D and figure that this time I want to use a HTPC instead of the playstation 3 and hey why not go ahead and upgrade my PC and use my old parts in the HTPC, the only upgrade I did to the rig was replacing the gtx 285 with a
EVGA SuperClocked+ 03G-P4-3663-KR GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP
So my current rig i'm running on a 27" LG 1920x1080 16:9 monitor and I figure I will transfer the old card and get a new 700 series card and hey i'm upgrading I should get a new monitor, which to me is always where I start with a new rig. What a freaking minefield choosing a new monitor is basically to upgrade I gotta shell out 1k or more to get a 30" 2560X1600 that or ~$600 to sidegrade to a 27" 2560x1600. How have these monitors not become more mainstream / reduce cost in the last 4 years? Anyways I figure I will have to really eat it there and shell out the $1200 for the Dell u3014, ugh (not chancing the 500-800 koreans).
And now I come here and start researching CPU's figuring the Haswell just came out so this one will be easy, sigh. What the heck is going on, from the limited old comparisons I can find my bloomfield is still an impressive chip. I am running pretty hard into their being no reason for me to upgrade (except maybe go ahead and get an SSD) and just go ahead and get something reasonable for an HTPC.
So if anyone here can help me out with CPU's compared to my bloomfield I saw the AMD FX-9590 is coming out soon and although I got divorced from AMD over a decade ago alot of memories having me thinking of taking her out on a date again. Especially since intell appears to be too good for taking up precious space with graphics I wish were being used for more processing power and spending way too much time with her "mobile" friends.
Appreciate any perspectives especially: intel vs amd, my old bloomfield vs current cpu's, and what I should expect if I just hold off for another year.
my use is,
Gaming, pretty much everything
Programming work (which means visual studio(since its the real resource hog the other ide's don't count)/ sql server|oracle|postgres(local instance but I turn it off when gaming)
Video editing, I have a 1080p camcorder, various phones, and 2 kids so I have a lot of pictures and video and am doing more and more editing. (this one digs my intel grave doesn't it sigh)
Will probably slight OC and water cool
Thanks!
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W
Water Cooled running at 3.4 ghz stable for appx 4 years, well all i do is write sql so select DATEDIFF(DAY,'4/16/2009', getdate()) = 1527days
So I go an buy this nice new 60" LG LED LCD w/3D and figure that this time I want to use a HTPC instead of the playstation 3 and hey why not go ahead and upgrade my PC and use my old parts in the HTPC, the only upgrade I did to the rig was replacing the gtx 285 with a
EVGA SuperClocked+ 03G-P4-3663-KR GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP
So my current rig i'm running on a 27" LG 1920x1080 16:9 monitor and I figure I will transfer the old card and get a new 700 series card and hey i'm upgrading I should get a new monitor, which to me is always where I start with a new rig. What a freaking minefield choosing a new monitor is basically to upgrade I gotta shell out 1k or more to get a 30" 2560X1600 that or ~$600 to sidegrade to a 27" 2560x1600. How have these monitors not become more mainstream / reduce cost in the last 4 years? Anyways I figure I will have to really eat it there and shell out the $1200 for the Dell u3014, ugh (not chancing the 500-800 koreans).
And now I come here and start researching CPU's figuring the Haswell just came out so this one will be easy, sigh. What the heck is going on, from the limited old comparisons I can find my bloomfield is still an impressive chip. I am running pretty hard into their being no reason for me to upgrade (except maybe go ahead and get an SSD) and just go ahead and get something reasonable for an HTPC.
So if anyone here can help me out with CPU's compared to my bloomfield I saw the AMD FX-9590 is coming out soon and although I got divorced from AMD over a decade ago alot of memories having me thinking of taking her out on a date again. Especially since intell appears to be too good for taking up precious space with graphics I wish were being used for more processing power and spending way too much time with her "mobile" friends.
Appreciate any perspectives especially: intel vs amd, my old bloomfield vs current cpu's, and what I should expect if I just hold off for another year.
my use is,
Gaming, pretty much everything
Programming work (which means visual studio(since its the real resource hog the other ide's don't count)/ sql server|oracle|postgres(local instance but I turn it off when gaming)
Video editing, I have a 1080p camcorder, various phones, and 2 kids so I have a lot of pictures and video and am doing more and more editing. (this one digs my intel grave doesn't it sigh)
Will probably slight OC and water cool
Thanks!
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