Thread: Letting my core i7 go!

I am considering selling my core i7 cpu and board as i don't game that much anymore, i have a full time job and a baby so i don't game as much as i use to. So i was looking into a PII 720BE and was wondering if i would see any improvements from DDR3 as opposed to DDR2. yes i know you intel people are going to wonder why i would give up my core i7 but in reality i just don't use the power of it. also would the 720BE bottle neck my 4870X2? what you be a good board for the 720? Should i stick with ddr3 or dd2?

It shouldn’t bottle neck too badly but the720 is dead easy to overclock you could look to the Asus M4A78T-E an there is minimal gains between ddr2 and ddr3 on ad chips.

You're going to take a loss when you sell your i7 components. I would keep the i7 if i were in your position. Since you have a baby and don't game too much, chances are you won't upgrade your system for awhile. This system is very fast, so you won't have to upgrade for a few years. If you decide to purchase the PII 720BE, it will be slower and your 4870X2 will be limited by the slower CPU.

I have a core i7 set up and even though I’m planning on keeping mine =P I can see where you coming from it's a rarity that i need all the horse power behind it. I've also heard the most games don't utilize more then 3 cores on most cpus. So i would say with a decent overlook on that 720 you would have enough power to let some other competent be the bottleneck in the system. As for the ddr3 or ddr2 memory i think it just depends on whether a 50 percent speed improvement.

I just say keep it. Yes you may not use it full power now but down the road a lot of applications will use the power of it.

I have an old HT P4. At the time when these cpus were made, there weren’t many apps that used the second thread. now look 5 years later. almost all app uses 2 cores/threads and there even going in 4 cores/thread. So i can only imagine in a few year the Alot more programs than just games will start to use all 8 threads in an i7.

Now im not saying you should keep it but scene you already have it, it would be better keep it than giving it up.

It would also be cheaper to keep 1 powerful computer (while replace parts) than replacing a few average computer to be able to do what you want.

Keep it unless you need the money. If you use the money to buy a PII well your not gonna come out with much money left over. You wont get near what you paid for it, as its used, and i5 is out later this week. People that pay lots of $$$ expect some kind of warranty.

You're i7 will feel slow in a few years. Unless you really need a quiet PC or a power saver (not that a 95W X3 720 would do the job anyway), you should keep it. If you want to ditch a component that you don't need any more, replace the video card. That will save you more on the power and noise front and it'll have less of an effect on your everyday computing performance.

I'm not sure if the "i7" will feel slow in several years. Keep in mind when the Q6600 was released. That CPU still performs quite well relative to other two year old CPUs. The OP will lose more money selling the components than is worth for the time and money spent on the new CPU/motherboard/RAM.