Upgrade to (i7 or i5) now or wait for i9?

I will get the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P and this CpuCooler Prolimatech Megahelms I hope to achieve 4,2GHz easily.

 

pretty good.. pretty good..

you just left one very important thing out.

What kind of flavor milkshake?

 

Should not be a problem.

 

Um the Core I5 is not Nehalem its Lynfield and ya it performs just like the Core I7 which I'm also getting after I get my laptop next March.

 

Ok they are both hehalem

but

i5 and i7 SKT 1156 is Lynnfield

i7 SKT 1336 is Bloomfield.

 

yep +1 on UD5, just recommend not to use the 4 Gigabyte Sata 2 ports and just use intel spec ones instead, thats the only hassle i had, other than that 0 problems, got it overclocked in a few hours to 4Ghz and verified a few hours later, rock stable since, never hun once on OC or required a cmos reset( even though thats handy with the reset switch at the back ), also 3 way sli/crossfire is mega just to know its there if you want it( of course some of the other mobos support that also ).

The gigabyte UD5 is known to get a better BCLK than the P6K also, but im not sure if the new Asus P6K new revision beats that now or not

 

whens Bloomfield out? soz im just lazy to check lol

 

Its our current i7s

 

oh right, lol, so all the new i5/i7's released this month are socket 1156?

 

Yes but i dont really know the difference, well i do but i don't know if the dies enhance or anything.

 

does the Rampage extreme 2 still cut the mustard? seeing as it was one of the early i7 boards, is it missing anything that the newest mobos have?

I'm thinking of selling my kit to a mate. I loved my rampage formula so would like to stay with that series of board. Money doesnt come into it, just from a features stand point what would the Rampage 2 get out of 10?

 

Well for the price its nothing special

you should grab the classified.

 

actually when i said money doesnt come into it i kinda meant thats about as much as i'm happy to spend £250ish, is the classified still intel chipset?

EDIT: wait, stupid question that ive just answered myself

 

^ I'd prefer the Rampage II to the classified or bloodrage etc, still seems a very good board

 

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hey today i tried to learn about the architecture of core 2 n core i7. the conclusion that i made is core to duo is a rework of Pentium 3's p6 architecture 9 its a old thing. n i7 is nothing but adding the Pentium 4 into a core 2. some other improvements r also there but mainly they have added the better side of Pentium 4 into a core 2. n took the idea of hyper-transport from AMD as QPI link. these better things they gained at the time of strangulating to make Pentium 4 a better processor. which they couldn't do because of the internal architecture of pentium 4. but now they have a better architecture so they r adding the better feature of pentium 4 qpi link n lil bit of new spice and a new processor........