Old I7 question

[kinofiron257]

Hey guys.. I have heard the old I7 965 are actually quite bad CPUs despite being the first of extreme edition i7s.. is it true? Thanks!

 

P.S Oh and if anyone is selling an i7 2600k combo please let me know, thanks again!

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6 minutes ago, kinofiron257 said:

Hey guys.. I have heard the old I7 965 are actually quite bad CPUs despite being the first of extreme edition i7s.. is it true? Thanks!

 

P.S Oh and if anyone is selling an i7 2600k combo please let me know, thanks again!

The old i7s aren't too bad. I don't know about the extreme.

The newer i7s are better for price to performance. If you buy an old one buy it used.

 

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[Lord Nicoll]

6 minutes ago, fpo said:

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[Lord Nicoll]

14 minutes ago, kinofiron257 said:

Hey guys.. I have heard the old I7 965 are actually quite bad CPUs despite being the first of extreme edition i7s.. is it true? Thanks!

 

P.S Oh and if anyone is selling an i7 2600k combo please let me know, thanks again!

I have a few Xeon X56xx based servers, basically the same as the extreme, they're OK CPU's but rather old (pre Sandy Bridge) so don't expect them to compete with modern i7's, even the ones with up to 6 cores.

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I'm pretty sure there is a bigger difference between Nehalem and Sandy Bridge then there is between Haswell and Sandy Bridge if that says anything.

[JoostinOnline]

Not bad.  Just not really great.  Despite what most people on here seem to believe, having i5 or i7 in the name doesn't mean it's better.  It will perform about on-par with any current generation i3.  You can still game fine with those.

 

If it isn't really hurting your gaming performance, there's no reason to upgrade.

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12 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I'm pretty sure there is a bigger difference between Nehalem and Sandy Bridge then there is between Haswell and Sandy Bridge if that says anything.

I don't know if that's true but I kinda feel that way too  

[RadiatingLight]

7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I don't know if that's true but I kinda feel that way too  

AFAIK it is. I wasn't a techie back then, but I've heard that the jump from Nehalem to sandy bridge was huge, and that sandy bridge was basically the second coming of Christ.

[JoostinOnline]

3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

AFAIK it is. I wasn't a techie back then, but I've heard that the jump from Nehalem to sandy bridge was huge, and that sandy bridge was basically the second coming of Christ.

Slight exaggeration

[DrDComputers]

I have a i7 965 extreme edition, and it does a fair job for how old it is, and handles games / workstation programs pretty well. especially when overclocked. Although my pump has been slowly failing over the last year.  Maybe evaporation somehow.  Anyway - -  Tearing the old Dell 730x H2C machine apart, and throwing what is usable in a new case.  Still some life left in the motherboard, and the processor.   Will see if I can get the temps down.  The processor did a great job handling the heat, and lived under regular use at high temps of 100 C.  So, I can say that the processor is tuff.

Although on the one...as you can see, the chipset had a cooler on it as well.  Wondering if it will be safe to run without a cooler on the chipset.  Using a Corsair 100i  V2 to cool the cpu.  We'll see.  This is my first post on a forum.

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@kinofiron257 I've personally never heard that the first-generation i7's were particularly "bad," in fact as I recall they were quite far ahead of anything else at the time, at least in multithreaded applications. I suspect that since Sandy Bridge was a pretty big jump above them, we tend to remember the second-gen i7's much more fondly than the first.

 

Here is an ancient launch review for the early i7-900's, if you're curious to see how it was received.

[asand1]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=839&cmp[]=1312&cmp[]=1304

 

If you're going FCLGA1366, you should really go no less than Xeon 5650. The 1366 Xeons are great overclockers and they are 6 core, 12 thread. Perfect for games like GTAV, Witcher 3, BF1, etc.

[Intelfreak]

Good old X58 is not bad. X58 performence great counter its age if you overclock the crap out of it. First i had a 4 core I7 920 oc, but not so long a go i swapped it out with an I7 980X cpu and yes X58 is most fun with 6 cores when ever its a I7 or a Xeon cpu.. Thats still a great setup with two GTX 970 in sli and 12 GB triple channelmemory for 1080P gaming.

 

Take a look at my system first with I7 920 and them with I7 980X.

 

 

This are the clocks i run my system at for every day use.

 

I7 980X again but abuse, kicket and overclock to 4.77 GHz.