X58 and Core i7

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Anybody building a new box based on the X58 and the Core i7 chips? I've been considering it, my newest box is almost a year old and probably should be updated LOL

Figured the cheapest I could get into it is around $650 if I was lucky...(Ram, MB, CPU)

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:48:19 Post Subject:

I'm probably going to wait until after the first price drop before I play around with i7. I've got to get rid of a couple of my other systems first though (e6400 and a first gen Q6600). I may hold of even longer and take advantage of pricing on the q9400's instead.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:05:07 Post Subject:

I'd wait, too. $650 seems like alot to me for CPU, memory, and motherboard, but when we're talking about i7 that gets you in at the absolute cheapest.

Stuff I have seen on Newegg and Tiger Direct...

Cheapest motherboard - $220
Cheapest processor - $310
Cheapest triple channel 3GB 1333MHz memory - $130

Total is $660! Yikes

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:52 Post Subject:

The wife and I just did upgrades to AMD Phenom's... (mine's coming in tomorrow) don't see the need for an upgrade to anything else for at least 2 yrs. When DDR3 drops in price after AMD comes out with the AM3 CPU's then, it'll start being worth it.

slugbug · Rated XXX Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 772 Location: Canada

The cheapest is to sign up for the live.com cash back promo and save 25% off of Ebay buy it now auctions. I haven't tried it because I'm in Canada, but people say it takes 60 days to get the cash back from Microsoft. There are lots of threads on the deals sites that explain everything about the promo.

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

my system can still handle the latest games on high settings and high resolution...

ill hold out on upgrading until game performance begins to suffer

Shadowsilence · Posted: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:47:13 Post Subject:

My system is currently pretty stacked. 8GB DDR2, 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo. However, when Sata III is released and SSD are cheaper/better then I'll upgrade. No point in spending the cash for a better cpu, and faster ram at this current time. But it is tempting, as my "server's" tech is getting behind the times, and could benefit by moving the raid array into the current system.

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:02:42 Post Subject:

We were thinking about the i7 for our new desktops at work but we're *settling* with quad-cores since the precision line at dell doesn't have an i7-based build yet Smile