i7-975 Extreme vs i7-920 OC 4.0GHz in cross fire config with ATI Radeon 5870

[silvandiro]

Extend display nice video mate keep the good work :) (are you around UK or USA?)

[PUA687]

@silvandiro USA, Thanks.

[BullBeatz96]

You're Torturing me !!!

OMG !

[weisheng2009]

Just love these cores

[Twisted86]

Well I am officially jealous. Though I am curious why didn't you go with SSD primary instead? Sure this is almost a year old but the SSD was superior back then. I just hate RAID0 so my drives...specially with the fail rate that seems to haunt us.

[cisco760ca]

Damm budy did u rob a best buy or frys ?

[Harisdoubled]

WTF can a pc work wit 2 CPUs can smone tell?

[MACHIAVELLIxKOVI]

why you need i7 extreme? well unless you are a super programmer (maybe you are) lol but i7 920, 930, 940 etc etc will be fine for every game to date and later... because i don't think think so far games take advantage of quad cores especially of i7 with 8 virtual cores... btw i spent 1500 on my pc and i can play any game on high everything (not crysis... gtx 260 cant pull it off :( ) ps. my lowest subscore is 7.2 if that even matters... my processor is .2 less then your extreme i7. cool vid. btw

[TechSixNine]

Unimpressive. 

[raulxider]

what song is this ? I lake it

[PUA687]

@raulxider  Mary J. Blige - Family Affair (Radio Edit)

[wethepeople1776]

not as good build as you think you should of used SSD and 8 gigs of better ram with better latency's, video cards are ok.

[mhaneline]

@wethepeople1776 8 gigs of ram in a 1366? lol@you

[TheHradd69]

4:43 thats my processor lol

[harrygamer]

if u had a 5970 i would of been mind blown

[PUA687]

@harrygamer The 5970 is made up of two 5850 GPUs and it is the fastest single video card. The way I have it setup with two 5870 in xFire was the fastest and best video setup possible at the time I made the video.

Thanks for your comment.

[cisco760ca]

@PUA687 actually the 5970 has 2 chips that are between 5870 and 5850 . The fastest video card right now is the asus 2x 5870's card named ares. Rumors now are saying that nvidia is gonna have a 2x 580 card out soon . I love when ati and nvidia have a showdown it makes them make faster cards.

[madworldbestsong]

@PUA687 Next year you need to get two 5990's in xfire.

[zeldazackman]

@harrygamer the ATi HD 6000 series is out!!!

hell to the yeah

[DAnysOSX]

holy shit are you crazy O.o but its ok XD

[CaNxYoUxStoP]

dudeee jesus. so many WD's

[joaohen]

low fps no fsx kkkkk

[guitargamery]

nice video friend, thumbs up, i get 6,8 performance bench mark in windows 7 ultimate 64, i have 3 wd VR 300gb(900gb) in raid 0 i am usic one radeon HD 5870, cheers

[PUA687]

@guitargamery Thanks!

[redspicer]

GOD DID YOU LIKE BREAK IN A WARE HOUSE THATS LIKE 25 GRAND WORTH OF COMPUTER PARTS!!!!!!

[FlameSnipe]

wow you sell this stuff! you are so lucky. I want to upgrade my computer but need to gather some money together. Im just running a intel pentium with 4 Gb of DDR2 and a GT 8400 Gpu. It kinda sux for gaming.

[Soulanalyzer]

Where you find all that money man?! What job do you do for a living?

[mzr00001]

quite a collection. you must be blessed :D

[Beech165]

looks like a warehouse. :D

Sweet video +++++ (Y)

[jacekantoine]

do you sell computer hardware for a living

[PUA687]

@jacekantoine Yes

[Iluv2raceit]

B.S. This is not an apple-to-apple comparison!! Come on, are you an amateur or what? You should have just swapped out the CPUs using just one of your systems. The Intel Core i7 975X did not lose, the single GTX295 lost to the two 5870s in Crossfire. NUFF SAID - come back when you post the correct benchmark - NUFF SAID!

[PUA687]

Read the description. Here is an excerpt:

i7-920 had the highest scores overall and by a small margin, but it had the 5870s in x-fire that both 3DMarks benchmarks(06 and Vantage) liked better than the nVidia GTX295s that the i7-975 extreme had, and it showed in the scoreboard.

The i7-975 extreme was further handicapped with a RAID 0 made of the SATA 1.0 WD 74GB Raptors.

[3D8n52DmV37EI6oHeX]

WTF why "Windows Experience Index" is so LOW for hard disks =\\\ for 7.7 need x5 SSD raid0? lol

[SniffelzZ]

not an overkill i bet that pc has alot of fail. you deff need all those raptors with there high fail rate GL :D

[UpYoursNightmare]

who the fuck has money for that much stuff?

[k2prime]

single, good job

[whiskeysauer]

@k2prime

Ha! Nice answer!!

[OGDutch]

If I want an affordable gaming pc of max $2000, what configuration do you suggest I should use, I will use it for school work and mainly RTS games (I played FPS on my PS3 ;-)) - also consider that I live in Europe and most things are slightly expensive than their US equivalent

[PUA687]

You have several choices; here are a few:

The i7-920 or i7-860, the PC in my video has the i7-920 cpu,

ASUS P6T mobo and 2 ATI 5870 in X-fire.

If you go with AMD it is probably cheaper

AMD Phenom II X4 965 trueQuad 3.4 GHz

MSI 790FX-GD70 mobo

ATI Radeon 5870. Any of these should be under $2000.

[konradevelopeurope]

@OGDutch dude you can buy alot of high end PC's for under 2000

[MeestaKeefGirly]

What the fuck?? so did you break into the newegg warehouse er wat?

[MrWakawaka14]

thats like heaven DX

i wish i was like your neighbor/bestfriend XD

maybe you could give me your left overs lol

nice vid man

[GF9400GT]

I think you have a lot of money !! very cool video

[Thel3rian]

Rich man. 6 Velociraptors? :[ I wish I could afford to WATCH this video LOL

[HastaLaVista6666]

NO WATER COOLER??

NOOB ¬¬

Just Kidding, Extreme Massive èpic Computers

Nice dude

[launchsa]

Do the 3 monitors give you the affect of 3D when flying with left and right views on the side monitors in FSX?

[PUA687]

Yes they do, to an extent. The field of view is about 130° I would say.

[demon69120]

What do you do for a living? You're systems are awesome.

[PUA687]

Thanks, I work in the computer industry.

[akiisdaman]

I see you have some P55 boards i assume u have one of the lastest i7 or i5. I really dont noe which to go for i7 920 or i7 860 :S please help!

[PUA687]

I have an i7-860 and I can easily recommend it; the i7-920 supports triple channel memory and the 860 only dual channel. The i7 920 and Core i7 860 share the same core, with only minor differences on the structure and therefore they perform similarly. With the 860 you'll save money on ram and mobo.

[akiisdaman]

I see, So for u personally which would u buy? i7 860 or i7 920? the 860 has updated motherboards etc. so after all the cons a pros which would u get?

[PUA687]

I wish it were as simple as that but It really depends on what you're going to use it for. I would choose i7-920 because I use multiple GPUs (X-fire & SLI) and because of its memory bandwidth . It is an important feature to me because I process video and use the pc for productivity. If it is only for gaming go with the 860 it is slightly faster out of the box than the i7.

[akiisdaman]

I see :/ i was planning to get a single HD5970, but is it true that it is easier to overclock the i7 920? If so i would rather go for that.

[PUA687]

I have obtained sustainable stable OC on air with the i7-975 extreme, i7-860 and i7-920, to about ± 4.1GHz and temps ≤ 65°C. The i7-920 runs the coolest of the trio and it was the easiest to OC. Obviously the i7-975 extreme has an unlocked multiplier and can be OC'd much higher with a different cooling solution.

[gunnar045]

ehh nice pc^^, but the music hmm i dont know

[MICKMOFFAT]

a hobby and 1000 for a i7 dude your rich !!!!!

nice pc man !!!!!!!!! makes my 2.66 dual core look like a pice of shit arrg

nice vid !!!

[FuenfamTag]

Hi PUA687,

this is really a nice system build. Nice components and of course a really nice video too.

Take care and many greetings.

FuenfamTag

[PUA687]

Thank you!

[ipnhesbro]

this vid makes me horny :p

[wal197731]

Fucking hell mate, you must have a few bob. lol

[paultje162]

DUDE. u have to much stuff. really cool man. but i got an ask.. i need a new hdd and i have no money....... do u please can donate me 1 raptor? i really need it becuase my hdd died and i have an gaming pc. and i really wanna use it becus its only 3 weeks old and i wanna use my 5870 :(. i only enjoyed it 3 weeks and i wanna play on it again. but i really need a hdd. can u please please please donate me a raptor?

Greetings,

Paul

[PUA687]

Sorry to hear your HD is dead. See, I am using the Raptors in RAID 0 configurations and I cannot pull out a drive to donate because that would render the whole RAID array useless. Good luck.

[Mupp1t]

@PUA687 you think later in the future it would be possibly to run 2 5870's and 1 of their new gtx 300 for a dedicated physX..is that possible?

[PUA687]

Who knows it's hard to say. This is their position currently: Physx is an open software standard any company can freely develop hardware or software that supports it. Nvidia supports GPU accelerated Physx on NVIDIA GPUs while using NVIDIA GPUs for graphics. NVIDIA performs extensive Engineering, Development, and QA work that makes Physx a great experience for customers.

Continues.....

[PUA687]

For a variety of reasons - some development expense some quality assurance and some business reasons NVIDIA will not support GPU accelerated Physx with NVIDIA GPUs while GPU rendering is happening on non- NVIDIA GPUs.

[KapteinFruit]

DAMN! Do you own all of that stuff? God damn. That's like a wet dream for me to own. (Not that I get hard off PC hardware xP) Sick video 5/5*!

[crosiski]

okay seriously WTF man you got to much shit but still good vid man 5/5

[PUA687]

Thanks!

[CrazyHairBand]

The best graphics card on the planet is the HD5970 not the 5870 .

[PUA687]

Well, you may be technically right. The 5970 is the best single card, but it has 2 GPUs and it's comparable to, rather slightly faster than two 5850s. Two 5870s in x-fire is the fastest graphics solution when all options, including single cards, SLI, and crossfire systems are considered.

[CrazyHairBand]

Its just AWESOME !

[PUA687]

Thanks!

[MercuryOneOne]

HOLY CRAP, DUDE!!!! You have hardware and software poring outta your azz... Did you win the lottery or something??? Well... I'm jealous. Nice...5/5.

[PUA687]

Thanks!

[teduwas]

do you build pc's for a living?

[PUA687]

I guess you could say that, but is more of a hobby.