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grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4978

No, AM3 is dead. You need AM3+ for bullshit.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:05 am

AM3 and X58 are both 'dead'. Yet competitive with the top offerings of their respective companies in gaming.

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4978

Perhaps. I'll be interested to see what an i7 920 makes of GTX 670's. The Phenom II didn't have a clue what to do with them (even with an nForce chipset helping out) despite handling the GTX 460's reasonably well.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:20 am

i'm benching GTX 680 and GTX 690
- the GTX 680 is close to an oc'd 670 and the 690 is much like overclocked 670s in SLI

Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2124

grstanford wrote:

not sure what you mean. Intel released the i7 920 at lower than $300. Eventually they did. That most certainly is not the price the 920 debuted at, and the 920 was the x58 chip you bought when you couldn't afford any of the real x58 CPU's.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/intel-cor ... 65-review/

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So before we dive into the architecture of Core i7, you probably want to know what processors are actually being launched today. It's actually a threefold of CPUs. Let's have a peek:

Core i7 920 at 284 USD (mainstream)
Core i7 940 at 562 USD (performance)
Core i7 965 Extreme at 999 USD (enthusiast)

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:24 pm

i just got the EVGA Quad-SLI FTW Z77 MB. Looks awesome for overclocking and i do have hope for 5.0GHz for Ivy. Mario is probably going to upgrade his Z68 MB and i think the ECS board would be particularly cool for his Sandy Bridge CPU.

However, i am running into something weird with my ECS MB and i spent the entire day (and last night) attempting to troubleshoot. The Vantage score is really low compared to either my X58MB or my (returned) Gigabyte Z77 MB. Like 5000 points low for a GTX 680. However, most of the other game benches are in line (at least the ones i have run, so far)

i wonder if it could just be issues with Vantage and the ECS MB. i am going to send the ECS rep an email.

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4978

It's not Vantage, it's the shitty ECS board. If you do give it to Mario, I'd advise not to run anything more than a lowend Pentium G in it, if he values his CPU at all.

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:46 pm

grstanford wrote:

It's not Vantage, it's the shitty ECS board. If you do give it to Mario, I'd advise not to run anything more than a lowend Pentium G in it, if he values his CPU at all.

Thank-you for that. It has been a long day.

It will be a fine board for just about anything. Everything but Vantage is pretty much in line with the Gigabyte MB

And when i run the identical benches on the EVGA MB, we will have a third comparison.

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4978

apoppin wrote:

It will be a fine board for just about anything.

Until a random component on the motherboard blows up and takes everything out with it, because ECS/PC-Chips do no quality control whatsoever........

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:59 pm

Actually ECS just announced their upgraded RMA service. So far. this is a stable and solid board; i'd call it conservative. However. i think it needs to improve in the BIOS options and in some other areas which i'll cover in my evaluation of it.

They got the 'look' right and it is priced 'midrange'. About $170, i think

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