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Processor | ??? |
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Motherboard | 760 |
Cooling | HK |
Memory | 3x1gb |
Video Card(s) | 285 Classified / EVGA 480 |
Display(s) | 22" Acer /42" Toshiba |
Case | Stacker |
Power Supply | Toughpower 1000w / Coolmaster 650w |
Software | All of them |
"dropping", as in, no longer an external point to point interface available to scale performance further.
QPI is no longer available to the "external" chipset to provide full-speed-full-bandwidth-low latency PCIe lanes, additional processors, accelerators or memory controllers. On x58, external QPI allowed vendors to build systems with multiple PCIe x16 lanes. On x55 this isnt possible. Only one set of x16 lanes is available directly off the CPU; if a vendor wanted more, they would have to put them on the DMI bus. But that would be slow and there would be latency issues. Therefore QUADFIRE/SLI is out, and crossfire/SLI is limited to 2x x8 lanes.
so in reality core i5 will be under powered then i7 no matter what people say about i5 the i7 920 will be the better choice
any prices on the i5 line up?
i think the most expensive i5 will barley compete with 920