regardless, most people wont overclock either to those points


its a mute point for me, i cant even leave my rigs running because i have so much electronic shit running in my room + AC is kept way to friggen high

Exactly my point. O/C phenom 955 comes close to a stock core i7.

sad :(. i have my pc + tv + pc surround sound + 4 speaker stereo for the tv. with air conditioning it prly stays 70. wtf all you have

roommates never turn AC below 80, so as a baseline, most of the house is generally between 80-90F

then my room is probably +5*

then i have my little micro-atx PC im running in my p182

my tv

surround sound

3 wifi box's

modem

2 surge protectors, 2 power strips, mostly full, several good sized power supplys, 5 speakers, sub, laptop, xbox 360


uum, ya

fuck.

are you using any special software for ur htpc?

not yet, ive hardly got past the build stage

windows 7 is installed, no the struggle to make things work with basically no drivers, hybrid crossfire in catalyst, get some sort of recording software for the tuner, ETC


but im house sitting till monday, so im not even at home ><

Maybe Ice's Mumbo Jumbo about how the i7 is only better in rendering, etc, will stop and he will stop preaching lies.

Well done Eek. =)

This post was edited by PENandPAPER on Jul 10 2009 05:21am

Very nice benchmarks.

Its funny how HT actually makes a difference on some things, but then you see in L4D it didn't matter, infact somehow hindered performance.

IS VN1 comparison, most games the i7 wins in, not overly surprised... seeing how much better it is in things that are CPU intensive and programmed to utilize all cores is kind of eye opening for what future gaming would look like where a game can utilize 4 cores and you pit an i7 and a PII.

Also, for me as an HD4670 its nice to see the card pull off playable framerates with such high settings on L4D, and that I was correct about my CPU being the bottleneck at this point.

This has given me a lot to think about.

First intelligent response. Thank you.

I'm actually surprised too, people at other tech forums have told me HT hinders gaming performance and i didn't quite believe it at first, so i had to test for myself. Well it obviously did but it didn't matter as much as it did compared to other people's benchmarks. My clocks probably helped. But nonetheless, a $475 rig is still pretty damn powerful. I'm also surprised how a 2 year old Quad is still holding up to the current gen parts :).

Q6700 <3 .

Eek you did it again... You made me cum in my pants with that sex work of yours, you owe me 2 underwears now..