http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-nehalem-core-huron-river,10863.html
So I just came across that article today and was wondering if it is worth it to wait for these to hit the market.
I'm getting into my first ever PC build so please bear with me if I say anything stupid >< Ideally I want to gather parts over the next month or so and be done by September at the latest (FFXIV is released then so I can't wait lol) Any chance Sandy will be out by then? and if so are they targeting all price points or is it only going to be high end stuff?
Computer will be used for school stuff (I'm a computer science major so visual studio, etc.) as well as for as much gaming I can fit in. It's going to be my main PC to be used for quite a few years (at least 4+ years) to come so I'd like to future proof it as much as possible.
Currently I was going with an i7-930 / 950 build with a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mobo / 6GB DDR3 RAM / 1GB gtx 460 with a SLI and SSD upgrade in the future.
My main question is if its worth holding out for the sandy bridge and 1155 boards or is the performance between the current i7 line and sandy not that significant? I'm wondering how realistic it will be that people actually do just a CPU upgrade in which case I'd like to avoid the socket dilemma. It seems to me though that if one is building a high end PC that it will last for years to come and by that time an upgrade is going to require a socket change anyways.
Would you more experienced users find this to be the case or is an i7-930/950/sandy going to be so dated at some point, that I'd want to do a CPU upgrade without just going for a new build altogether?
Thank you very much for your time!
So I just came across that article today and was wondering if it is worth it to wait for these to hit the market.
I'm getting into my first ever PC build so please bear with me if I say anything stupid >< Ideally I want to gather parts over the next month or so and be done by September at the latest (FFXIV is released then so I can't wait lol) Any chance Sandy will be out by then? and if so are they targeting all price points or is it only going to be high end stuff?
Computer will be used for school stuff (I'm a computer science major so visual studio, etc.) as well as for as much gaming I can fit in. It's going to be my main PC to be used for quite a few years (at least 4+ years) to come so I'd like to future proof it as much as possible.
Currently I was going with an i7-930 / 950 build with a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mobo / 6GB DDR3 RAM / 1GB gtx 460 with a SLI and SSD upgrade in the future.
My main question is if its worth holding out for the sandy bridge and 1155 boards or is the performance between the current i7 line and sandy not that significant? I'm wondering how realistic it will be that people actually do just a CPU upgrade in which case I'd like to avoid the socket dilemma. It seems to me though that if one is building a high end PC that it will last for years to come and by that time an upgrade is going to require a socket change anyways.
Would you more experienced users find this to be the case or is an i7-930/950/sandy going to be so dated at some point, that I'd want to do a CPU upgrade without just going for a new build altogether?
Thank you very much for your time!