I7 950...is it the GOAT?

>>58683713
No, 975 is. Can be bought for under $100 and can OC to 4.1GHz stable.

>>58683736
Why not just use a hexcore Xeon? Many are compatible.

>>58685910
Hmm. I didnt know Xeon stuck with the 1366 socket for that long of a time.

The Xeon X5690 is fairly cheap too.

But at most that Xeon is slightly faster than the 975 in some cases, and fairly even in others. And its twice the price as the 975 on eBay.

>>58683736
That's pretty shiet. I've got my i7 870 at 4.3GHz 1.3725v.

>>58686000
'slightly' faster
lel my OCed X5675 is getting 1000 points in Cinebench, good luck getting that with an i7

>>58686010
That's a shit voltage and will degrade your CPU

>>58683713
>>58683736
No, the Xeon X5680 is

>>58683713
>I7 950...is it the GOAT?

>$562 retail price
lol no

The i7 920 came out several months earlier, and was only $300 and could be OC'd to basically identical levels as the i7-950.

>>58686032
Got 552 on stock speeds.
You do have the core, and clock advantage tho.

>>58686096
New gen quad core i7s get ~900-1000.

>>58686149
Well I'm suck with old hardware, and I upgraded it to flagship components on the cheap. I get 60 FPS in the games I play, so I am content.

>>58686085
>>$562 retail price
Talking about retail price for a 7 year old CPU. Top kuck.

Shit is $50 on eBay right now.

stable 4.3GHz for a 100$ hexacore really isn't too shabby
have turned down the OC to a nice and cool 4GHz because who the fuck needs that much CPU anyway

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>>58686193
So fucking what? It can't be GOAT by definition if you're only talking about how good it is for the price in 2017.

GOAT CPU from Nahlem was i7-920.

$300 and just as good as the $500+ ones. If you bought an i7-920 at launch you could still be rocking it today and be content.

>>58686201
gtfo this is comfy x58 topic

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AMD cucks mad that they can't even beat a 6 year old platform

Still using my 920 @ 3GHz

>>58686207
You know some things gain value over time.

>>58686052
Nope. Been stable for 4 years now.

It's only an issue if it goes over 1.4V

>>58686274
Yes.
My penis is very valuable to bitches and hos. Just ask ya mom

>>58686258
Same. 920 is Goat. No need to upgrade.

>>58686274
Then dont fucking call it GOAT

Greatest of all time is not a fit match for something that only became good 8 years after the fact.

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>>58686438
>time
>no longer being relevant after a said amount of time

>>58686258
>>58686357
Agreed. Best model so far. Useful machine from late 2008-now.

>>58686357
I'm starting to feel the need to upgrade to be honest, it's starting to feel slow as fuck to encode videos compared to my laptop's 3XXXQM and for blender cycles rendering.

>>58686207
>If you bought an i7-920 at launch you could still be rocking it today and be content.
Doing exactly that, with the same old launch time 12GB RAM.

And even if I replace it to get smaller transistors eventually, it will probably continue to get used by someone else, as gaming machine or Linux server or whatever.

>>58683713
2000 and late

>>58686000
They behave a little bit differently, as they're 32nm rather than 45nm. They're not far off from the ever-popular Sandy, on top of the additional cores.

You're right in that they do cost more, though. Not a bad consideration if you really want that 1366 to go the extra mile.

>>58686560
Feels like you need NVENC/VCE and a matching GPU to reasonably encode H.265 anyhow.

Feels the same way for Blender Cycles, probably should use OpenCL or CUDA... though I heard it was a bit buggy? Not sure.

>>58686201

it's ok we'll take our x97's and go play somewhere else.


anyway what's the best 1st gen i7 cpu and mobo to get on ebay? that's gonna be my next cheap computer build.

i don't know why i build all these computers......

>>58686690
Why not lga775 (ddr3) with an x5450? Should be cheaper and still offer decent performance.

>>58686714

already running a 2.83 ghz quad core 2 with 8 gigs ddr3 on said machine.

looking at ark.intel and comparing the two cpu's, the xeon has twice the L2 cache and nearly twice as many transistors, otherwise looks the same.

something i'm overlooking here?

>>58686607
The problem with cycles GPU rendering is the memory capacity needed on the GPU to hold all the assets of a scene which isn't a problem for small ones but if you're using high quality textures the memory requirements start to skyrocket, and we all know how NVidia prices their GPU memory. The OpenCL version is still very experimental.

GPU video encoders always look pretty awful, I'd rather keep using ffmpeg.


I'm hyped for zen if it keeps its promises.

>>58686842
The xeon gets good multicore performance because of that. Which core 2 is it?

The x5450 at stock speeds can match an Ivy bridge i3 in multicore performance, or better in some instances because it's not held back by hyperthreading?
It's still very good for its age.

>>58686601
I'm happy with my 975. I have not even OC'd it yet. I still have room to grow.


What GPU can I get that wont bottleneck? I currently have 2x 480

>>58686890

q9500 2.83 ghz. i plan on selling it to some kid that needs to get into gayman peecee's once my mediocre vidya card comes in from dem innanets.

I'm still on an i3 2120, should I upgrade to the i7 950?

>>58686313
What cooler ? Mine would shit the bed

>>58686946
How is that an upgrade?

>>58686946
How is that gonna work?

you need to stay in the 1155 family.

>>58687061
A1-V10

>>58686946
Get the 2600

>>58686938
Should be a tiny bit faster but not worth upgrading over mate.

Why not look at something like a D2500 to tinker with just for fun?

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I finally swapped my i7-920 that was OC'd to 3.5 for a W3690 that defaults to basically the same clock speed, but has 6 cores, 12 threads. Best decision ever. Despite being just as fast with no OC, and having 50% more cores, it idles 10 degrees cooler than my 920 did. Go figure.

My fellow 1366 brothers, you should seriously consider grabbing a Westmere Xeon (W3680, W3690, X5680, X5690) on the cheap if you don't yet want to upgrade beyond this generation.

>>58683713
>1st get i7
it was never GOAT not even on release.

>>58686318
Underage go and stay go

>>58683713
No, the GOAT was the 1.4GHz AMD Thunderbird