greengiant912 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) So I don't keep up on the latest and greatest hardware much anymore, since I have been working more towards being a network engineer... So I don't know always what hardware is the best and what not, and this piece vs another piece... So I am looking at CPUs, I want to get an i7 but I am confused about this whole sandy bridge vs the other i7 processors. Besides the obvious socket difference what is really different with sandy bridge? Is it worth it? Or should I just get a i7-960? The price seems similar... Edited October 4, 2011 by greengiant912 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drdeath Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) Its well worth it for the $. 980 is triple the price. Edited October 4, 2011 by Drdeath Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengiant912 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) Its well worth it for the $. 980 is triple the price. That was a typo, it should read: i7-960 Edited October 4, 2011 by greengiant912 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengiant912 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) I decided to go with the sandy bridge, after reading many reviews saying that the performance is pretty good... Plus you can easily get up to 4ghz with little effort on the 2600k Edited October 4, 2011 by greengiant912 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shurman292 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 I decided to go with the sandy bridge, after reading many reviews saying that the performance is pretty good... Plus you can easily get up to 4ghz with little effort on the 2600k You made a good choice. Sandy Bridge runs much cooler and at much higher clock speeds than the previous generation i7. And apparently they are easier to overclock! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) If you're doing encoding then it'll be worth worth it. Now the major vendors just need to add native support for Intel QuickSync (Adobe, Sony, and etc). I just need a faster upload speed now. Edited October 4, 2011 by Krazyxazn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTaco Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 See My Rig Sig. I am adsolutely 100% statisfied. I like my new Hardware and I like my new Win7. Its da schizle. You should hold on just maybe two more weeks and get the price drop on everything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkin90 Posted October 4, 2011 Posted October 4, 2011 My previous rig was a i7-930 one and I can say that it's worth it. Lower temps, higher overclock. I was actually waiting for IB but I'm too impatient and I needed to build something Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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