nckid4u

Is anybody folding on an i7 860? What kind of ppd do they get compared to a 920 say at 4GHz? I am going i7, but am deciding whether to go for the cooler running 860, or the 920... This will be mainly a folding rig with a couple of nvidia cards folding as well. This rig will go under water and I plan on clocking as high as possible...

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Mikecdm

I'd bet that they get the same amount of ppd if they are both running at the same clocks and using the same amount of cores.

I just use my i5 750 and it gets over 8k at 4.2ghz. I think it's more like 8200 the last time I checked, or maybe that was at 4.3ghz.

Something worth looking into would be the price of motherboards with several pci-e lanes. There are some P55's in the $150 range with 3 pci-e slots and the x58 are just a little more. if you want performance on a budget, I have been hearing some good things about the asrock mb's. They have 3 pci-e slots in both p55 and x58 flavors. The difference in price is around $30-40.

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nckid4u

I am leaning toward ASRock P55 Extreme i7 860 and Gskill 4GB 1333 RAM CAS7. The ASRock lets me keep my good ole DD waterblock and utulize the 775 holes.

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