Any 1st Gen i7 Users Still Around?

[Xerora]

Just curious. I keep hearing about how the 1st gen i7's are still relevant. Specifically the i7-950. Was reading reviews on amazon and people are claiming with the right over clock you can get about as much performance as an extreme edition chip. I'm kind of baffled at that, but what do you think?

[Logarithm]

I'm using a laptop with a first-gen i7, does that count?

[Xerora]

1 minute ago, Logarithm said:

I'm using a laptop with a first-gen i7, does that count?

I don't see why it wouldn't. Still run good?

[MightyMic]

2 minutes ago, Xerora said:

with the right over clock you can get about as much performance as an extreme edition chip

LOLz, dis is so vague, with the "right" overclock any chip can perform as good as an extreme edition chip.

 

I do use a mobile first gen i5 though...

[Xerora]

2 minutes ago, MightyMic said:

LOLz, dis is so vague, with the "right" overclock any chip can perform as good as an extreme edition chip.

 

I do use a mobile first gen i5 though...

That's why i was a pretty baffled by it. Unsure if paid reviewer or possible idiot. Perhaps even a honest reviewer? Maybe?

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, MightyMic said:

LOLz, dis is so vague, with the "right" overclock any chip can perform as good as an extreme edition chip.

 

I do use a mobile first gen i5 though...

On a first gen i3, had it overclocked to 4ghz but it was too hot. Im getting watercooling and am expecting a 4,5ghz oc. its a great chip

[Xerora]

1 minute ago, Julian5 said:

On a first gen i3, had it overclocked to 4ghz but it was too hot. Im getting watercooling and am expecting a 4,5ghz oc. its a great chip

Yeeeee. I personally find i3's unappealing. 

[Logarithm]

Ehh... sort of. I do a lot of virtualization, so the 8 cores help with that, but the single-threaded performance is annoyingly low. My compile/interpret times get pretty annoying some times, in VMs. that is. They are honestly good, and work acceptably, but I can't help but compare it with my desktop, where the single-thread performance is much greater.

 

Summary: They are okay, but I wish I would've gone for Sandy Bridge.

[Xerora]

1 minute ago, Logarithm said:

Ehh... sort of. I do a lot of virtualization, so the 8 cores help with that, but the single-threaded performance is annoyingly low. My compile/interpret times get pretty annoying some times, in VMs. that is. They are honestly good, and work acceptably, but I can't help but compare it with my desktop, where the single-thread performance is much greater.

 

Summary: They are okay, but I wish I would've gone for Sandy Bridge.

I imagine outside of VM its probably still got some pep, though?

[Logarithm]

Just now, Xerora said:

I imagine outside of VM its probably still got some pep, though?

Yeah, they're decent. I would still recommend going for Sandy Bridge, though.

[Xerora]

6 minutes ago, Logarithm said:

Yeah, they're decent. I would still recommend going for Sandy Bridge, though.

If i ever go intel again ill probably end up with sand bridge.

[themctipers]

Used to use a first gen i5. 

Upgraded from i5 760 to an i7 3770k. 

Before I only had medium settings in gta v. Now I have all high settings without aa 

 

Single threaded performance is pretty shit. 

[Kirik]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Used to use a first gen i5. 

Upgraded from i5 760 to an i7 3770k. 

Before I only had medium settings in gta v. Now I have all high settings without aa 

 

Single threaded performance is pretty shit. 

I'm using i5-750 Lynnfield with 4.0 OC and a R9-380 and still playing GTA V on high-ultra w/o advanced settings on 60FPS.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Kirik said:

I'm using i5-750 Lynnfield with 4.0 OC and a R9-380 and still playing GTA V on high-ultra w/o advanced settings on 60FPS.

Mine was stuck at 2.8ghz. I wouldn't overclock it because it was using the stock cooler and didn't use any paste (ran out)

so idle was ~60... 

 

Yeah, it died a few months later  

[thekeemo]

i7 920 here

stock because it idles at 70c (thanks egypt)

relevant yes

are they bottlenecks to modern gpus yes

[manikyath]

i decomissioned my first gen i3 based server because honestly... it was just getting too slow, and it was sitting next to a haswell i7

[Hunter259]

My Xeon is basically a i7 870. Working on a review of higher end GPU's on such an old platform currently.

[MSWindowsinside]

59 minutes ago, Xerora said:

Just curious. I keep hearing about how the 1st gen i7's are still relevant. Specifically the i7-950. Was reading reviews on amazon and people are claiming with the right over clock you can get about as much performance as an extreme edition chip. I'm kind of baffled at that, but what do you think?

My brother is still happy with his i7 860 for now. I think he said he wanted to upgrade his entire PC next year, mostly because some newer games don't fare too well on his PC. He's been happy with it for 6 years though, that indicates that they're really good workhorses.