i7-920 or i7-4770 (non K) or Xeon X56yy

[Asses_Of_Fire]

as a former owner of the 940 and x 58 and x5650, im telling you to go with the 4770. those other cpus overclocked to thier max will still lose and bottleneck many new gpus. i had the 940 at 4.4ghz and it lost to my i5-2400at stock......

[asand1]

3 hours ago, Asses_Of_Fire said:

as a former owner of the 940 and x 58 and x5650, im telling you to go with the 4770. those other cpus overclocked to thier max will still lose and bottleneck many new gpus. i had the 940 at 4.4ghz and it lost to my i5-2400at stock......

My X5680 beats the i7-2600 I replaced it with.

[asand1]

i5-2400 doesn't even compare, it's 3000 points lower than X5680.

 

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1&cmp[]=1312&cmp[]=793

[Jack the Stripper]

3 hours ago, Asses_Of_Fire said:

as a former owner of the 940 and x 58 and x5650, im telling you to go with the 4770. those other cpus overclocked to thier max will still lose and bottleneck many new gpus. i had the 940 at 4.4ghz and it lost to my i5-2400at stock......

That dont make sense

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2400-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5650/803vsm355

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-950-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5650/617vsm355

[Asses_Of_Fire]

im talking about gaming performance, those cpus you guys are talking about overclocked to its max barely has faster single core speed than a fx series cpu. i've done the oveclocks and the benches. yes a x5680 scores great in multithread benches but in gaming they suck and get thier ass kicked by a locked i5. they will bottleneck modern gpus,the 4770 wont. since you are using passmark as a reference compare the single core passmarks all those old 1366 cpus are too slow. the 4770 will smoke any of those cpus in pretty much every program. x5680 will render video faster...yay

 

in passmark single core speed the 940 at 4.0 ghz (which is a high oc for that chip) it only scored 1700's, x5650 was the same at 4.0 ghz. the fx 8350 at 4.8 ghz scored in the 1700's also and people here claim that cpu sucks!   the i5 2400 with a overclock to 4 ghz scored over 2100. a locked 3770 oc'd to 4.3ghz scores over 2400.

 

there is no reason to go into x58 anymore, its old,slow, expensive and outdated. but yay you get a good bench in cinebench multithread.

 

the 920 at its max is slow and bottlenecks gpus like a 280x, the x56xx series can be okay but what no one is mentioning is a x58 that not only supports the 6 core xeons but can actually get a good overclock with them costs around $200, over half the x58 motherboards wont even post with a stock x5650.theres a few will will push one but not much more than stock and those cpus suck unless you have them 4ghz+..... you might get lucky and get something like a sabertooth x58 for $150 bucks. that money is not worth that sub par performance. the 4770 with a POS $20 motherboard will give you much better performance overall. but its your choice. NEVER go by any of those cpu compare websites they are misleading.