Will you buy i5? Or keep what you've got? Please vote!!!

Just had an email from a distributor indicating the i5-750 was available at usd198.00 provided it was purchased in a bundle. Oddly enough, the bundle included a P55 motherboard, something a systems builder will need anyway.

With the official release looming, here's a poll for Core i5-750 and i7-860/870.

Fry's will have them for 207.99 if i'm not mistaken which is fine by me.

I have decided to buy the Core i5 750. ( and it's not an upgrade from a C2Q)
In my region (South Africa) it's more affordable than a Phenom 2 955 which is 260$+ mobo which is 185$ total =445$
and the core i5 is 220$ + mobo 200$ =420$ and it's alot better.
Jeez you oakes are lucky 195$ for the Core i5 720 and 150$ odd for the mobo.

Those prices are Australian dollars (aud) converted to usd. I try not to post prices in aud because it confuses too many of our cousins in North America.

Local distributor price was aud230.00-ex GST (local tax), which is now usd193.00 with currency movements.

The GA-P55M-UD2 is aud145.00-ex GST, or usd121.00. At the moment, this is the leas expensive way to purchase LGA1156.

I can always send a few over next time our cricket team flies in to give you lot hiding

I've been going round and round with deciding between an i7 920, Phenom II, or i5 750 on a new build. I thought I had it decided that I'd go with the 2.8GHz Lynnfield chip, but then I started looking at benchmark comparisons between single graphics card systems (like I would build) with Phenom IIs, and realized that I'd be wasting several hundred dollars for the same level of performance.

One PureOC article compared a i7 920 clocked at 3.4GHz against a Phenom II 955 or 965 (I can't recall) at 3.8 GHz with a single 4890, or 2 in crossfire... and the Phenom II was just as fast in a single GPU situation.
http://www.pureoverclock.com/article794.html

The small amount of benchmarks we have on the i5 750 chip put it far enough back from the i7 920 that I think I can assume that I'd get slightly superior performance with a 955 BE.
-The wrench in my decision, however, is that the i5 750 has been rumored to OC very well, and if it can get near 4.2GHz w/ the stock heatsink.
http://forums.ocworkbench.com/show [...] post451015

So, even though the i5 750 should be 10% or so slower than the i7 920 clock for clock, and would likely be a tad slower than a Phenom II X4 955 BE at stock speeds w/ a single GPU... If the i5 750's OCs this well, it should be a better performing chip than the i7 920... by a pretty decent sized margin!

So... I'm actually pretty anxious about the i5s. A lot of people are skeptical about these chips due to the crippled memory controller, and some go as far as to point them out as garbage compared to i7 920s... but, I have my fingers crossed that a large number of people will have to eat their words soon. So far, the reviews are lame:

http://forums.ocworkbench.com/show [...] post451015

This one above takes a i7 920 at 2.66GHz against a i5 755 at 2.66GHz, with a test setup using a single GeForceGTX280. As expected, the gaming performance is identical, and the 750 lags behind in things like rendering where not having HT is a disadvantage.
-Why couldn't they OC the 750 to 4.2GHz (a supposed easy OC for the 750), OC the 920 to 3.6GHz (its most common OC speed), and put them against each other with SLI or CrossFire setups....
*sigh*

Instead, more useless information. *shrugs* its only a matter of time before someone shows me the info I want though.

Yes, I made the same comment in another thread about that link. I've taken screen shots at 4.2GHz. Anyone can do that. I could not get it do to any benchmarks, almost instant failure on everything.

However, at 4GHz tests could be run, but the temperatures were toasty-roasty, a little high for my liking.

Anyway, I've changed the title of the thread to:

Will you buy i5? Or keep what you've got? Please vote!!!

in an effort to obtain more results.

Probably has something to do with the NDA. I'll have a 750 on tuesday for testing

As I suffer from selective memory with regards to cricket and rugby, I am quite sure I don't know what you're on about.

As far as the poll is concerned, it looks like the "do nothings" are in the lead at the moment as the dominant group.

So you suffer from selective memory."People who block out unpleasant memories or issues may enjoy short-term gains but emotionally detaching themselves causes long-term consequences, according to a University of Michigan psychology researcher" In that case you don't remember anything bad and just remember the good times I wish I was you.Man I have done alot of things bad it just sticks in my head.

I will wait till the price come down a bit and go for core2duo e8600 or core2quad q8400

I'm looking at the I7 860 to be the heart of my new build but only if their good overclockers, if not I'll either hold of for the 32nm chips or get a I7 920.