[spfoam1]

Anyone here get an i7 975 yet???????

[Kal-EL]

No but I hear the xeons are kicking big booty tho. DOn't ask my why this one is $1600 bucks http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117179

[spfoam1]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

No but I hear the xeons are kicking big booty tho. DOn't ask my why this one is $1600 bucks http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117179

$1700 sign13

[Jeffro64]

+1sign13:sign14:

[Chuchnit]

Steve if your board can do reasonably high bclock, or if you do the usual SteveO has to buy the best (eVGA Classified), the W3540 is the same price as the i7 950 ($550-ish) is totally kicking booty. Andre Yang is almost passing 3d06 at 5450mhz if I recall correctly.

[DrNip]

920 ftw.

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by DrNip

920 ftw.

Totally agree buddy, but it's Steve we are talking about. Getting him to even consider a 500 dollar chip over the EE is a big step for him

[DrNip]

Oh yeah. I figure for $1,000 you could get the 920 as well as a 955 Phenom and a mobo for both. Well almost but close enough. Then you would have double the fun!

[Chuchnit]

That would be alot of fun, but I'm just not that impressed with the 955. Just the scaling between dice to ln2 is too much to be fun. Atleast with intel and the right chip you can compete with some ln2 runs.

[Gunslinger]

I bought my Xeon from Andre, and am very happy thus far. It'll do 4.9GHz on 1.4V, I have validated at 5.23 on 1.5V, and am still learning the tricks to go higher.

I've done some 3D at 5.1GHz on 1.5V as well. LN2 would be better than dice for sure.