Hello folks,
If anyone is interested…
3dspeedmachine recently ran a series of tests on Intel’s i7 920 processor. The tests involved turning on and off various features of the i7 to gauge how each configuration affected render times. The tests also offer insights into the i7’s auto overclocking and hyper-threading features.
For more information please see the full article here: 3dspeedmachine.com
Thanks,
-joe
nice. I’m building an i7 later this week.
you will like it 
these were really impressive times even though the test machine had the low end i7 920. what are you putting in your new machine? i’d be curious to see what the 940 or 965 can do with the same scene.
best,
joe
Nice
Bought a ready made i7 as I couldn’t build it any cheaper, it came with a 22" widescreen monitor and I am very happy with it, not really ‘au fait’ with overclocking details so I just use the supplied Asus app and most I can get is 200mhz increase on the base i7. I fiited the Noctua heatsink, cpu temps never over 60 degrees on full load and extremely quiet even with 2 120mm fans.
Spike
I have a 920 myself, sitting on my table ready to go. Unfortunately I bought triple channel ddr3 memory, and a board with only 4 slots, so am sending that one back and getting one with 6 slots so i can install all 12 gigs i bought. Also going with raid 0, and a nvidia gtx285 for vid card. I’m pretty psyched for when its all put together. Also got a Dell 22" widescreen monitor. Would have loved to go with the 24", but it would have broke my 2k budget barrier.
so jealous
get a SSD drive in there too it will be smoking fast!
lol, man i looked at em, but didn’t want to go too willy nilly all over the place. This is my first decent workstation I’ve built for myself in several years, so im pretty psyched.
yeah but…SSD is blazing!
also expensive. I thought if i’d get one it would be just for operating system and programs. But then you need stuff to hold your files which read from disk…I guess few more years and it will be good.
But wait…2012…the end is comig, I guess we wont see that then.
couldn’t resist…
Its only 80 gigs 
Am on an i7 920 / 12 GB Triple Channel / 285 GTX atm
It is pretty much as fast as the old Dual Quad Xeon box i was on…definately looking forward to dual mobos 
Regards,
Thorsten
sounds like pretty much what I’ll be going with.
What mobo are you using? I’m picking this one up:
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read\_pf.php?cID=1405
Looks pretty well received, and even includes some neat features, like a mini ssd hdd you can boot into in seconds and get on the web, as well as a lil palm device for instant overclocking stuff.
Percy,
I just built an i7 with that mobo, the Asus P6T. It’s really solid, with plenty of OC features.
My system specs are:
Mobo: Asus P6T
CPU: Intel Core i7 965 EE
MEMORY: 6GB Corsair XMS2 1666mhz Triple Channel
HD: Intel X25-M SSD 120gb…
Video Cards: 2x EVGA Nvidia 260 SSC
It’s alot of fun, no problems with anything at all! I love the SSD, it’s expensive but really, really great to have, I suggest it, even though the high price.
-Colin
can you make some examples?
Sounds nice! Man that SSD must have cost a pretty penny. Compositing must be damn fast though! How’s things at AI?
Morbid -
I can’t provide test examples for speed tests and stuff, because frankly I wouldn’t do them better than the great benchmarks other people are doing. Lookup Intel X25-M SSD and you’ll find plenty of benchmarks As far as night and day, it’s not absolutely apparent, but I value my time in front of a computer and even milliseconds add up over how much time I’m at my computer 
Percy, When I bought the SSD from Newegg it was bundled with the CPU 965 Extreme for $500. I know it’s expensive, I don’t want people to get out of their budgets, however it was either that or 2xVelociraptor’s which was almost as expensive.
At any rate, I hope this helps. I’ll be more than happy to answer any questions anyone might have about a new computer. I couldn’t be happier with my $3500 rig. It’s really a beast. I haven’t done any rendering tests (it’s very new), I’ll get on it soon.
AI is doing well, thanks for asking! Hope RI is great and the wife and new one are doing well. You’re always well thought of. Hopefully you can come see Al Denté soon.
-Colin
Was that $500 for both cpu AND SSD? Or just the SSD? Even if its just the SSD, thats a pretty damn good deal. Pricewatch.com lists them for around $800.