amd PII 965 vs i5 750 vs i7 860 vs i7 920

which one would you choose

  • amd PII 965

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • i5 750

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • i7 860

    Votes: 6 42.9%

  • i7 920

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • Total voters
    14
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robina_80

Active Member
what would you get out of these intel i5/i7 chips, the best allrounder in games programs etc etc, but id say majority of the time will be gaming ie MW2 and any other latest games, im kind of leaning towards the 860
 
I would buy none of the above processors. If I were building a system today without budget limits I would buy the Phenom II 945 Processor Model HDX945WFGIBOX.
 
I do not need more than a Phenom II 965 it does everything I need for it to. What can a I7920 do that a phenom 965 can not?? Granted in some video creation/ encoding times the Intel i7920 might shave 10min off what the phenom 965 would do but 20min vs 30min who cares unless you make a living doing it. I am not a fanboy of AMD but i really do not see why the majority of people need more than what AMD has to offer.
 
I was reading an article in CPU that the i5 is really good for overclocking. You could run up to 3.2GHz on just one thread!
 
basically the i7 are quad core cpus but add hyperthreading and it adds 4 more virtual cores so you can do more in less time like run more programs blah blah blah more faster
 
no but hyperthreading does improve multitasking in a big way but not so much for games as they dont take advantage over it
 
jasonn20 said:
Does the majority of software even support hyperthreading? win7 for instance
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Not yet, but they will, and it also allows you to do more tasks at the same time. It's not all about single programs utilizing more than one core.

If you don't know why you need it, then you probably don't.

But, you asked "What can a I7920 do that a phenom 965 can not??", and this is your answer.
 
If you can build an i5 system for the same price as a 965 system then I would go i5. I went AMD since it was the best price/performance at that time.

If you were really tight on your budget then you could get the Phenom II x2 550, MB, and 4gb ram and it would much much quicker than the 4200+. If you get the right MB you could unlock the 550 x2 into a x3 or x4 core cpu as well. I think that would be the cheapest route you could go and get very good performance for the money.
 
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