Who is going to skip 1156/1366, and wait for Bulldozer?

[jiffylube1024]

I was going to wait but I've been overclocking less lately as my Q6700 chip was giving me problems, so I decided to upgrade to an i5/P55 combo, and I'm glad I did. Turbo mode is awesome! If you're overclocking, less so.

 

[soccerballtux]

Ok here are my results that I pulled when I recorded them when I still had the Q6600 before upgrading (Direct X 9.0c, Resident Evil, Fixed benchmark, Catalyst 9.9)

Q6600 @ 3.4ghz, 6 gigs of ram, 4890

1280x1024 4AA = 60.8
1680x1050 0AA = 57.8
1680x1050 4AA = 57.8
1920x1080 0AA = 54.6
1920x1080 4AA = 55.1

Core i7 860 Stock with Turbo Enabled, 4 Gigs of Ram, 4890 (no overclocking), Cats 9.9:

1280x1024 4AA = 110.3
1680x1050 0AA = 98.7
1680x1050 4AA = 90.9
1920x1080 0AA = 89.4
1920x1080 4AA = 82.1 (+49%)
1920x1080 8AA = 77.6

Core i7 860 @ 3.9ghz no Turbo, 4 Gigs of Ram, 4890, Cats 9.9:

1280x1024 4AA = 111.5
1680x1050 0AA = 106.0
1680x1050 4AA = 89.3
1920x1080 0AA = 94.7
1920x1080 4AA = 81.6 (+48%)
1920x1080 8AA = 77.3

You can ask someone else with a similar setup (Munky above) to verify these numbers or run your own and see what you get with your setup. Of course this is only 1 game. But you can add GTAIV to this list and Dragon Age as well. WinRAR extraction, Distributed Computing, conversion of FLAC into MP3, you name it. IF you don't do any of these, obviously you won't see benefits of Core i7.

Very interesting. I never would have expected a Q6600 @ 3.4 to not be enough to max out a card.

 

[Macabre215]

I've lost my confidence in AMD assuring a good transition and life expectancy of sockets. They've had a horrible track record of this ever since socket 754 and I don't know if I should even trust AM3. I love AMD for what they are, a decent competitor, but I feel they will never catch up and get back to where they were.

 

[God Mode]

I'm waiting until interesting software comes out which will probably be never. During mid 2009, I stopped playing all these shit regurgitated pc games and I don't encode movies all day. I have very little use for anything beyond S775 quads.

What I'm waiting for is for SSD to drop in price because thats where I feel I would get the most benefit.

 

[cbn]

What I'm waiting for is for SSD to drop in price because thats where I feel I would get the most benefit.

This is what I am thinking too.