My New Intel Core i7 920 Build

[zach538467]

Well after playing with it all I can say is wow! It is much faster than the 4870, no microstutter at all! I DEFINITELY noticed a big improvement in synthetic tests. Played Crysis on very high at 1920x1080 easy! 3DMARK 06 score went from 17,300 to a whopping 22,000!! Crazy...so far its all good! I think I'm in love!

 

[ComputerNovice]

Thanks for letting me know what you thought of the 5850 I'm gonna buy it next Fri now

 

[randomizer]

And that's only the 5850 😀

 

[zach538467]

Hopefully I'm satisfied enough and I won't buy a 5890/GT300 when they are released...probably not

 

[real world]

Hey Novice, I was wondering how you're making out with your custom build? I'm putting together my plans for my i7 920 build, and wanted to know if your wrig was set up. I think I'm going to go with some of the parts you used, including the X58 mobo, and the Radeon HD 5850 GPU. I'm trying to hold off until Black Friday to do all my purchasing.

BTW, if its not too much, when you are all finished with your system, could you list the parts you used, and what it ended up costing you? Thanks in advance!

 

[ComputerNovice]

Hey Novice, I was wondering how you're making out with your custom build? I'm putting together my plans for my i7 920 build, and wanted to know if your wrig was set up. I think I'm going to go with some of the parts you used, including the X58 mobo, and the Radeon HD 5850 GPU. I'm trying to hold off until Black Friday to do all my purchasing.

BTW, if its not too much, when you are all finished with your system, could you list the parts you used, and what it ended up costing you? Thanks in advance!

I actually ended up buying the ATI 4890 to be honest with you. The exact model I ended up buying was the HIS Turbo OC+ 1Gb Model, I wanted to buy the 5850 but by the time I got my paycheck newegg was sold out of them... Sad part is that now the price of the 5850's has gone up. So sadly I don't think they are really worth the extra 100 bucks over the Turbo OC+ HIS 4890 card you can buy for only 189.99 on newegg but that's just my opinion. If they ever go back down to 259 or 269.99 again I'll buy it in a heart beat but I just don't wanna pay 300 for a GPU, i know it seems silly considering I mostly buy all gaming parts. But the truth is I'd rather just use a 4890 for now since they are great cards and are currently worth it when you compare dollars to performance ratio's.

As for the rest of my parts I'll gladly let you know what all I ended up using. Also incase you where wondering I have really been enjoying using my i7 build, I'm really happy I didn't decide to try to save a few bucks by doing a AMD build. The truth is that this i7 build is a really fast system by my standards. Although I'm not totally done building it technically since I still plan to buy a new Power Supply unit sometime in the next couple weeks and I also plan to buy another HIS 4890 and the 40Gb Kingston SSD for under 100 bucks that is coming out here within the next few days.

But as for now the only parts I haven't updated with pictures are my HIS 4890 GPU and my 640Gb Western Digital Harddrive that I bought along with my copy of Windows 7 Home premium I bought

I was able to re-use my two ASUS DVD-RW _ CD-RW but if you plug in the average cost for two DVD/cd rw combo drives then the total amount of money I spent on my build including my Windows 7 Home Premium FULL edition was just under 1200 bucks ($1184.33). That includes shipping and everything.

 

[JohnieReb]

I actually ended up buying the ATI 4890 to be honest with you. The exact model I ended up buying was the HIS Turbo OC+ 1Gb Model, I wanted to buy the 5850 but by the time I got my paycheck newegg was sold out of them... Sad part is that now the price of the 5850's has gone up. So sadly I don't think they are really worth the extra 100 bucks over the Turbo OC+ HIS 4890 card you can buy for only 189.99 on newegg but that's just my opinion. If they ever go back down to 259 or 269.99 again I'll buy it in a heart beat but I just don't wanna pay 300 for a GPU, i know it seems silly considering I mostly buy all gaming parts. But the truth is I'd rather just use a 4890 for now since they are great cards and are currently worth it when you compare dollars to performance ratio's.

As for the rest of my parts I'll gladly let you know what all I ended up using. Also incase you where wondering I have really been enjoying using my i7 build, I'm really happy I didn't decide to try to save a few bucks by doing a AMD build. The truth is that this i7 build is a really fast system by my standards. Although I'm not totally done building it technically since I still plan to buy a new Power Supply unit sometime in the next couple weeks and I also plan to buy another HIS 4890 and the 40Gb Kingston SSD for under 100 bucks that is coming out here within the next few days.

But as for now the only parts I haven't updated with pictures are my HIS 4890 GPU and my 640Gb Western Digital Harddrive that I bought along with my copy of Windows 7 Home premium I bought

I was able to re-use my two ASUS DVD-RW _ CD-RW but if you plug in the average cost for two DVD/cd rw combo drives then the total amount of money I spent on my build including my Windows 7 Home Premium FULL edition was just under 1200 bucks ($1184.33). That includes shipping and everything.

How did it all go? Im in the process of putting together components for my I7 build.

 

[ComputerNovice]

How did it all go? Im in the process of putting together components for my I7 build.

Everything went very smoothly I'm still enjoying to this very day. If you wanna chat more in depth just PM me. I'd answer more in depth but I'm currently at work.