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Asus P7P55D Pro Mobo with i7 860 cpu in excellent working order, can be seen working, Comes with complete with back plate ,Stock coller and 16gb DDR3 Ram ( 2 x Corsair xms3 4gb & 2 x Transcend 4gb) Is this worth £180? am i getting a good deal
It is a good deal, the i7 860 is ~£200 alone
[QUOTE=Awesomamorek;41181685]It is a good deal, the i7 860 is ~£200 alone[/QUOTE] The i7-860 still holds a high price not because of how good it is, but because it was only released in limited quantities and isn't in current production. OP, it depends on what you want to do with it. It's not really good for gaming unless you disable HT. If you do content creation or plan on using it as a server, it would work well for that. If you do get it, make sure you take out the 8 GB of Transcend memory. They're a crap brand and it would be crippling the performance of the Corsair memory.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;41189828]The i7-860 still holds a high price not because of how good it is, but because it was only released in limited quantities and isn't in current production. OP, it depends on what you want to do with it. It's not really good for gaming unless you disable HT. If you do content creation or plan on using it as a server, it would work well for that. If you do get it, make sure you take out the 8 GB of Transcend memory. They're a crap brand and it would be crippling the performance of the Corsair memory.[/QUOTE] Just out of curiosity, why would disabling hyper-threading help to gain performance even in singular and few-thread applications? Does it lower the overall performance of a core?
[QUOTE=flayne;41195451]Just out of curiosity, why would disabling hyper-threading help to gain performance even in singular and few-thread applications? Does it lower the overall performance of a core?[/QUOTE] One of the reasons is the fact that HT shares the resources of the single core's. And since most games are optimised for single core performance it actually degrades gaming performance. Better to have 1 good core than 2 half ones. (not exactly right but you get the point) Or in that case 4 good cores instead of 8 shared cores.
Hyperthreading makes one core act like two, aka you can run two threads simultaneously on a single core This sucks for gaming because single-threaded games will have to share the core with another process, and multithreaded games will assume they're loading two cores when they're really loading two threads on the same one(since they have no way to discern real cores and hyperthreaded ones)
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