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My Rig: Ripley

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My Rig: Ripley

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Spent the weekend assembling my new i7 rig which I have affectionately named "Ripley". All the hardware is Hackintoshable should I decide to go that route and dual boot with OS X.

Specs:
Fractal Design Define R4 Case, Black Pearl
Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor 3.5 GHz
Gigabyte Intel Z77 Dual Thunderbolt ATX Motherboard (GA-Z77X-UP5-TH)
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHZ 1GB
Corsair Professional Series  AX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Gold (AX850)  
OCZ Technology 256GB Vertex 4 Series SATA 6.0 GB/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
Lite-On IHBS112-04

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

 

Quoting kryo, reply 26

it cannot be made 'properly' multi-processor aware

If it is CPU-bound and only weakly multi-threaded, that's actually an argument in favor of the i5. HT is only going to be of benefit in situations where you have more than four threads and each thread can't fully saturate the core it's on. So in this case (as with most any case for gaming), you'd likely be better off shifting the price premium for the i7 towards a higher clocked i5 instead.

And triple channel memory isn't really of any significant benefit on quads (part of why it hasn't been available on anything but hexacores since that first generation).

Granted all this is moot in our case because the i5 didn't exist when you built that machine, but it's useful information for anyone looking to build/upgrade now.
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This. Unless the FSX is not superbly multithreaded, i am pretty sure i5 3570 would smoke first-gen i7s fairly easily, possibly even the sixcore ones, because of higher clocks and higher IPC given the architectural improvements between the Nehalem and Ivy Bridge,,,

 

 

 

 

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Good info, guys, even though I am an AMD fan. :thumbsup:

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 27
Good info, guys, even though I am an AMD fan.
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Same here. I just built a rig for my sister with one of those new AMD "APU" chips. That A8 chip I got was doing really well compared to one of my i5 rigs. For a lot less money too...

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Wow guys, for a second I thought I walked on set filming a TNG episode in engineering and Geordie was let loosing some techno babble. Kona, thanks for the link, will bookmark for future referencing and thanks guys, I know where to come to if I go that route...

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