Intel i7 920 vs q9400 and q9550

Little info on CPU, at 290 bucks, nothing on the planet can touch it, if that gives you an idea.... if you like to encode or anything, one small comparison using my old q6600@3.2 ghz too 1 hour 10 min or so to encode a movie, this cpu took 21 minutes, if you like multitasking or anything you do, with a simple cheap overclock leaves all the rest in the dust like there is no tomorrow,

there is no doubt.... the I7 destroy everything and not by a little either at stock, little OC then your breaking records, if your gonna spend same price for something else substandard compared, the choice if obvious, and for futureproof lol, again obvious, My last rig was asus p5kc, intel Q6600, 4gb DDR2 800, raptor X hard drive, built this i7 920, corsair dominator 1600mhz memory, with asus p6t deluxe with a gtx 260 216 xfx edition, even without a better graphics card, comparison.... There is none, makes the q6600 rig look like an amd, Completely smokes it by leaps and bounds, wasnt expensive either, for me i already had case/hard drives PSU etc, just the mobo bundle cpu/ram/mobo was $740...

ok then i guess there isnt much of an arguement...ill have to go to the i7

I did just learn not to take neweggs prices as the best around anymore....there are alot of sites offering memory and drives for alot cheaper

lol thanks man...appreciate it

Oh yeah, if you want to get maximum performance with Premiere Pro, you'll want 3 separate hard drives and at only $50/500gb, it's well worth it. I can't stand people who buy quads to multi-task and then buy a single HD.
1 - Vista 64 (spend an hour tweaking it from online guides and it's fine...and the only way to use more than 3.3'ish GB of memory)
2 - "Scratch Drive" (for importing video and photos onto)
3 - Storage drive (you encode video to this drive from #2)

I would also backup pictures you don't want to lose on the second partition of drive 1 and in a folder on drives 2 and 3 (nothing wrong with redundancy)

I'm personally going to wait until the I7 has more CPU's released but if I were to build a system right now I certainly would go with the I7. Assuming you can afford it it would certainly be the better value in the end.

Think of it this way. With the I7's you have the current generation and probably won't actually need to upgrade your CPU for quite some time. Even if you wanted to buy a later I7 you would be ready to.

With the older CPU's such as the quads you listed you would spend a similar amount on the CPU and saved money on the mobo and ram. However if you decide to go to the I7's later then your mobo and ram aren't going to be compatible so you would have to buy new ones anyways. This option will save you money at first but more than likely cost you more in the end.

I just built an i7 920 system. Easiest computer I have ever built. No problems so far. I just built it on Sunday and haven't done much with it yet, but love it so far.

My dad got a 920 from Fry for $229.99 as well. I was mad cause Newegg had theirs at $279.99 for 2 days a week ago and I snagged it.

I bought half my stuff at Egg and half from two other places. So yeah, newgg is good some of the time but not all of the time (on price).

yea! i jus figured out a way to get around that....my current build has so many items that go for free shipping...I end up paying a mere 35 bucks for 3 day shipping..instead of 115 orginally...newegg does kill you on shipping but they offer alot for free..

current system set up:

LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe
RAIDMAX SAGITTA 2 ATX-928WO
2x SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB
ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI 1920x1080 resolution

KWORLD PlusTV HD PCI 120 ATSC 120 PCI Interface - Retail
MSI R4850-T2D512 Radeon HD 4850
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W
Cyber Acoustics CA3550RB 68 watts 2.1 Black Speaker
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual
EVGA 132-BL-E758-A1 LGA 1366
Intel Core i7 920

including all accessories...cables...paste..mouse..keyboard...etc.

All for a Grand Total of $1,560.19 including shipping..

i dont think I can beat this price! I dont have my blu ray drive...but thats upgradable....and 4gbs of memory is plenty...benchmarks will show that the speed of the i7s dont increase much from dual to triple...like it does from single to dual..i can easily upgrade that whenever necessary

i7 can run dual channel...i seen many website doing it...and the result will surprise you...dual channel isnt far behind triple channel in terms of performance...

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ill jus buy another 2gb stick whenever software figure out how to increase the performance..as of right now...its not worth it