Intel I7 worth £500??

Has anyone got an I7 in their system?? I'm running an I5 at the mo & its not too bad, but I was thinking, should I go for this badboy??!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Intel-i7-975-Processor-3-33-Brand-New-/260713204663?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item3cb3b7cbb7

Thats a hell of a processor, but is it worth that much??
(My PC's primarily used for gaming)

hi mate, dont think you will notice that much differance in gaming, as its your graphics card that does all the work, if you realy wnt an i7 google aria pc, their prices are a lot more sensible than e blag

It sort of depends on the rest of your setup, run some benchmarks and see if your CPU is your bottleneck, you can check your Windows Experience on your System page and see if your CPU is the lowest number on there.

Not much point buying the fastest CPU you can find if your motherboard or RAM is to slow to cope with it, thats like putting a huge turbo on an engine with a spark plug missing or a fuel pump top small to feed it.

Im currently running 8GB@1333mhz of RAM (Corsair Dominator), OCZ Z series 1000w PSU, Asus Rampage 2 mobo with Intel core i5 2.66ghz chip, Ati Radeon HD 4870x2 graphics card - two of them! so 4GB of dedicated gaming ram. This rig has taken me over 2 years to save up for & build, its my brainchild :lol:

Windows experience all say 9.9, so I cant really go by that, I used Passmark & scored 9801.16, which is pretty good ( i think)

I'll give aria pc a look & see what they've got.

I just want more power!!! more power!!!

Overclock your current CPU for more bang

i currently running AMD X6 at 3.5ghz, 8GB Corsair 13333mhz, Geforce GTX 460

So how do you overclock then?
Ive got an Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50ghz......and what did I just say :oops:

I use riva tuner & ati tool to OC my system, but it puts a strain on CPU's & extra cooling is needed as the run a bit hotter if OC'd too much.
The GPU in my graphics card is already factory OC'd & 4GB of dedicated & 2GB of hyper memory - 6GB of gaming memory is enough I think, well its more than a PS3!!

Here its specs from wiki:

The PlayStation 3 uses the Sony, Toshiba, IBM-designed Cell microprocessor as its CPU, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs).[52] The eighth SPE is disabled to improve chip yields.[53][54] Only six of the seven SPEs are accessible to developers as the seventh SPE is reserved by the console's operating system.[54] Graphics processing is handled by the NVIDIA RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', which can output resolutions from 480i/576i SD up to 1080p HD.[47] The PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.[55]

Pretty poor when you compare it to a pc :shock:

thats a very good price for that cpu :wink:

but the cpu you have is more than plenty for gaming and will be for years to come,you wont notice any difference in gaming,if you want too burn that sort of money i would look at changing your gpu's,thats where you will notice a difference in gaming,ive never been a fan of sli or crossfire because the performance increase you get does not match the money it costs,you would be far better off putting your money into one dogs nuts card.have a look here at some benchmarks :wink:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

btw your passmark score is not good at all,i score 1564.7 and my system is old compared to yours,intel e8400 overclocked to 3.6 ghz,4 gig of kingston ddr2 1066 memory running at 920 mhz,xfx gtx 275 running at standard clock.

The lad does games on this when Im not sat here, :shock:

feck all that its to confusing :oops:

slightly OT

my laptop is an Acer Aspire 6920g it got a intel core 2 duo processor T5750 with a nvidia geforce 9500 gs turbocache graphics & 4gig of ram

now on the little sticker on the laptop it says up to 1791mb for the graphics card but it only runs at 512 so my question is how do i increase the grapics memory

im running vista ive just downloaded nvidia tools but aint got a clue how to used them :oops:

and dont want to break my laptop