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Topic: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings

Bane_Thunderstriker Posts: 1,984 Registered: Mar 11, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,939 User ID: 73,051	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	Looking for a what will be a decent Mobo/Processor pair for future gaming/video editing. My current setup does just fine for now, but its a bit... aged. Just looking for some ideas on what to look for next year. Current setup is: Win 7 64bit Mobo:Gigabyte P43-ES3G Processor:Intel Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz (OC'ed to 3.0Ghz) Vid card:GeForce GTX 460 768MB 4Gigs of memory Regular internal 7200rpm Hard drives. As-is my processor is a bottleneck for one of the games I play the most (EQ2). Overclocking my processor resulted in noticeably greater fps. I looked to see if there were some better processors for my board where the increased performance would be worth buying them but it looked like the performance gains would be minimal so I'm probably looking for a new mobo/processor pairing. -----signature----- AC, DAoC, WoW, WAR - Retired Currently playing EQ2, Dragon Age: Origins Achiever 60.00%, Explorer 60.00%, Killer 26.67%, Socializer 53.33%
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-Mithan- Title: VNBoard Admin Posts: 1,000,060,379 Registered: Mar 1, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 56,880 User ID: 13,156	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	Problem is EQ2 is a dog (shoddy programming). Corei5 2500 with a Asus P8P67 Pro is what I am using. -----signature----- I survived to the end and got nothing out of it, but hey.
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-Mithan- Title: VNBoard Admin Posts: 1,000,060,379 Registered: Mar 1, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 56,880 User ID: 13,156	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	Forgot to say, I would wait for Ivy Bridge at this point. I think its supposed to come out this summer. What is Ivy Bridge? Intels next CPU architecture, which will probably 30-50% faster than the current offering. -----signature----- I survived to the end and got nothing out of it, but hey.
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Marzuk Posts: 12,545 Registered: Oct 21, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 12,348 User ID: 729,742	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	-Mithan- posted: Problem is EQ2 is a dog (shoddy programming). I remember reading that EQ2 was created with prescott and increasingly scaling clock frequencies in mind, so it expected processors to grow tremendously in single threaded performance and didn't lean as hard on the graphics card as it otherwise could have. I'm not succeeding in finding a reasonable reference though so this could just be my imagination. -----signature----- (none)
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Bane_Thunderstriker Posts: 1,984 Registered: Mar 11, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,939 User ID: 73,051	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	Thanks for the info, Mithan. I'll wait for Ivy Bridge then, as I'm in no real hurry and my current hardware works well enough for now. -----signature----- AC, DAoC, WoW, WAR - Retired Currently playing EQ2, Dragon Age: Origins Achiever 60.00%, Explorer 60.00%, Killer 26.67%, Socializer 53.33%
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator Posts: 29,978 Registered: Dec 23, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 29,452 User ID: 572,278	Subject: Thinking of getting a new computer next year sometime... need info on good mobo/processor pairings
	Ivy Bridge is expected to arrive in March 2012. Along with a new 7 series chipset that includes native USB 3.0 support for the first time. Ivy Bridge uses the same Sandy Bridge architecture, so the CPU performance improvement won't be that much, about 10% with it's small tweaks and slightly faster clocks. The big improvements will be with the integrated GPU and power efficiency. -----signature----- (none)
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