CPU/Mobo When are you moving to Core i7

[YoGi-Sama]

I use to upgrade system almost on yearly cycle... but since last few years, I've grown up and now the upgrade comes bi-yearly.

So I guess Core-i7 for me will be either end of 2009 or start of 2010, when the prices will be within general peep's reach and my Q6600 will start asking for more vacation time. :bleh:

 

[Rockfella]

Absolutely Sir i agree.

Well the only people going to core i7 I think are the rippers and 3d modelling and those programming guys which occupy a much less part of the market.

i7 is just a procy for non enthusiasts and non gamers who can even take advantage of the technology in the place where they want to.

Its not for us.

We will have to wait for the next gen procy to come before we see any significant changes in i7

 

[YoGi-Sama]

Well the only people going to core i7 I think are the rippers and 3d modelling and those programming guys which occupy a much less part of the market.

i7 is just a procy for non enthusiasts and non gamers who can even take advantage of the technology in the place where they want to.

Its not for us.

We will have to wait for the next gen procy to come before we see any significant changes in i7

Around 20% clock-for-clock advantage over relative Penryn proccy (more in optimized applications), Better Power management, insane memory bandwidth. With Windows 7 and Snow Leopard coming and bringing better multi-core/multi-threading awareness on OS level to take better advantage of available technologies. How boring processor for enthusiasts.

Gaming performance improvement is not amazing, but it's not like it takes nosedive. More importantly, future games which will take advantage of multiple cores and multi-threading and leave cache-centric methodology will work better on Core-i7. Certainly nothing for gamers there.

Overclockers from Japan, OC'ed Core-i7 965 proccy to 5.5Ghz... oh, definitely not an enthusiast's processor.

The processor for us would be... what then?

 

[KingKrool]

Well, one reason why you might want a Core i7 is that for an 8P system (4 cores + dual thread) it is quite silent (most of the time).

I've been using one for a few months and I like that it makes much less noise than the dual Xeon system I'm using (though of course that has two CPU fans to contend with).

Another reason you might want it is because it has a bunch of fancy virtualization related features.

And lastly, it is pretty darned fast..