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flip-mode wrote:SB-E on a board that can handle 64 GB gets my vote. It's easily the most interesting. Ivy gets second place.
DancinJack wrote:Maybe we should get his usage scenario before we go that high end. Ivy gets my vote. Still plenty of performance for a pretty good price.
flip-mode wrote:DancinJack wrote:Maybe we should get his usage scenario before we go that high end. Ivy gets my vote. Still plenty of performance for a pretty good price.
I don't think he's asking for advice. I think he's just asking which you'd pick for yourself.
rogue426 wrote:Other than the temperature issue when bumping the voltage up on Ivy for overclocks around 4.9 , is it that less compelling than Sandy?
rogue426 wrote:Now that AMD has cut Bulldozer prices, does that change anyone's opinion on that proc too?
just brew it! wrote:Yes, but still not enough to make me want one unless I already had an AM3+ motherboard on hand (which is unlikely since the only reason to buy an AM3+ motherboard is to run Bulldozer). If they drop the price again by a similar amount, I will start seriously considering it for new builds.
NarwhaleAu wrote:just brew it! wrote:Yes, but still not enough to make me want one unless I already had an AM3+ motherboard on hand (which is unlikely since the only reason to buy an AM3+ motherboard is to run Bulldozer). If they drop the price again by a similar amount, I will start seriously considering it for new builds.
A FX-8150 at $150 would be very tempting - a lot of processing power for very little money. Wonder how it runs 30 firefox tabs. That's the majority of the workload I will be running through a processor.
NarwhaleAu wrote:just brew it! wrote:Yes, but still not enough to make me want one unless I already had an AM3+ motherboard on hand (which is unlikely since the only reason to buy an AM3+ motherboard is to run Bulldozer). If they drop the price again by a similar amount, I will start seriously considering it for new builds.
A FX-8150 at $150 would be very tempting - a lot of processing power for very little money.
just brew it! wrote:I would probably bite at around $170-$180.
(I've actually got an informal rule that I will not pay more than $200 for any single component. I think I've broken this rule less than a half dozen times in the past 15 years.)
BitBlaster wrote:just brew it! wrote:I would probably bite at around $170-$180.
(I've actually got an informal rule that I will not pay more than $200 for any single component. I think I've broken this rule less than a half dozen times in the past 15 years.)
Good rule. Do you include processors and video cards?
just brew it! wrote:BitBlaster wrote:just brew it! wrote:I would probably bite at around $170-$180.
(I've actually got an informal rule that I will not pay more than $200 for any single component. I think I've broken this rule less than a half dozen times in the past 15 years.)
Good rule. Do you include processors and video cards?
Yup. And given that I'm not a gamer any more, following the rule has become a lot easier...
BitBlaster wrote:If you don't mind my asking, on what did you spend more than 200$?
I'm currently looking to build.
End User wrote:Stock 3770K is more powerful than my [email protected] while consuming way less power and generating way less heat. I'm waiting for a Thunderbolt equipped motherboard in June before I buy. The 920 based rig will become my Linux box.
flip-mode wrote:DancinJack wrote:Maybe we should get his usage scenario before we go that high end. Ivy gets my vote. Still plenty of performance for a pretty good price.
I don't think he's asking for advice. I think he's just asking which you'd pick for yourself.
Krogoth wrote:End User wrote:Stock 3770K is more powerful than my [email protected] while consuming way less power and generating way less heat. I'm waiting for a Thunderbolt equipped motherboard in June before I buy. The 920 based rig will become my Linux box.
Not to nitpick or anything, but that OC'ed i7-920@ still beats the 3770K (3.5Ghz/3.9Ghz Turbo) at stock by a decent margin in mutli-threaded applications and a tiny bit faster at single-threaded applications. Sandy-Bridge/Ivy Bridges are not much faster in IPC performance than their Bloomfield predecessors.
rogue426 wrote:Far as I am concerned, it is hard for these polls to take price into account. You have to assume that at the moment most people don't have the money set aside for a purchase, so the already budget is already hypothetical. So budgetary concerns should just not be a part out of the equation. IMO.Now that AMD has cut Bulldozer prices , does that change anyone's opinion on that proc too?