Core i7 Better then Phenom II 940 ?

[jennyh]

That's only 3.2ghz, you can go higher. My 19600 @3.6ghz is out the window however.

Windows 7 is hurting it, I lost about 1k marks when I switched. You will get to 20k no problem, it just needs a bit more juice

 

[ilikegirls]

Wait a sec CPUID tells me that this is 3393.4 MHz ?!?!?

 

[ilikegirls]

and i dont know how to incress Volt..... lol

 

[jennyh]

Hm I'd go with that instead of the futuremark one then. Try 3.8, dont fry it tho 😛 And yep no reason why you can't add 100mhz to the 4890 core for a test.

 

[jennyh]

Also, you using Catalyst 9.7?

 

[ilikegirls]

ok ill brb
and ill try not to!
ill just go really slow id rather it would crash then burn lol

 

[ilikegirls]

there you go almost 19K

 

[ilikegirls]

OMG OMG 20K

 

[jennyh]

Hehe gz. Since moving to windows 7 I just can't seem to get to 20k.

 

[saint19]

That's easy, the problem in'st your CPU, the problem is the program 'cause the DB of the program don't have another system like yours with a i7.....I have the same problem with my Phenom II X4 955

 

[ilikegirls]

Well here is the main question should i return the CPU or is it working ok and i was just stupid to get a i7 when i have a phenom II x4 ?

 

[saint19]

uhmm....wait a minute, you have a II x940 or a i7?

 

[ilikegirls]

uhmm....wait a minute, you have a II x940 or a i7?

I have then both lol with two sets or mobos and ram now i wanted to know because i had the Phenom II X4 940 was it a bad idea to get the i7 ?

 

[cjl]

That depends. For some people, it's worth it. For others, it's a waste. Do you see enough of a speed benefit to justify it in your opinion?

 

[ilikegirls]

Well i dont think i see a good enough improvment now but i think later in the year games will start benefiting from the architecture of the Core i7 and the Hyper Threding is that a true statment ?

 

[randomizer]

By the time games really need 8 threads you'd have 8 native cores and 16 threads at the very least. FSX is, as always, an exception.

 

[saint19]

I have then both lol with two sets or mobos and ram now i wanted to know because i had the Phenom II X4 940 was it a bad idea to get the i7 ?

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Not really, the 940 is really good, but whe you put both in the scale, the i7 is better that the 940.....maybe the "problem" is that you don't wait much time to try the potential of the 940...

 

[roofus]

buy a second 4890 and try it on both platforms.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Well i dont think i see a good enough improvment now but i think later in the year games will start benefiting from the architecture of the Core i7 and the Hyper Threding is that a true statment ?

You wont see any improvements over a Phenom II in games. 3DMark itself is not a perfect judge either of it. Only games truly can tell you.

And the benefit of a Core i7 normally wont show until I would say the next gen of GPUs or multiple of current GPUs.

If it was me, I would stick with the Core i7 for the future. It will take some time for it to truly be fully utilized and hopefully it will be able to be a drop in CPU upgrade cuz even current GPUs don't fully saturate a single PCIe 1.1 x16 bus and wont for a PCIe 2.0 x16 buss until the next gen of graphics slot comes out.

 

[randomizer]

An expensive drop-in upgrade mind you.

 

[saint19]

Did someone want synthetic benchmarks? The X4 is a very nice chip but clock for clock cannot compete with the I7

Xfire 4770's
http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww252/2MCHBoost/xfire.jpg
http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww252/2MCHBoost/42ghz-2.jpg
http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww252/2MCHBoost/deneb_vs_kentsfield_yorkfield_bloom.png

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Isn't a secret, i say in another reply.....the phenom can't compit with the i7, always will win the i7, inclusive...in some bechmarked the phenom is defeat for the core 2 quad....but i'm an AMD client...

 

[ahslan]

Well the i7 hands down has more brute power than the X4, but for games, I personally don't see the benefits from the i7 to be worth it....however, if you are using your comp for photo/video editing or rendering, then the i7 clearly pwns....

my 2 cents

btw: PsychoSaysDie put up a pic comparing the i7 and other processors to a Phenom I....now that's just plain mean...lol...