What a massive waste of money haha.With windows 7, you don't even need to "install each component one by one with the discs... its all plug and plug, windows 7 will recognize all of it - you would just need drivers for the video card and you can get that from their website.As long as you're happy with it, I guess..To whoever said people are getting 5ghz easy on the SB... not true, while it is easy to reach, it's usually done with unsafe voltage for everyday use.. I'm running my 2500k @ 4.8ghz daily as we speak, at 1.38v under load.

Which benchmarks do you think an i7 980x @ 4.2GHz will win over an i7 2600k @ 4.6GHz? Are they relevent to flightsim and will they win by enough to justify the three or four fold price difference?

It'll beat it in stuff that actually uses all 6 cores well - which is not most games or FSX.

What a massive waste of money haha.With windows 7, you don't even need to "install each component one by one with the discs... its all plug and plug, windows 7 will recognize all of it - you would just need drivers for the video card and you can get that from their website.As long as you're happy with it, I guess..To whoever said people are getting 5ghz easy on the SB... not true, while it is easy to reach, it's usually done with unsafe voltage for everyday use.. I'm running my 2500k @ 4.8ghz daily as we speak, at 1.38v under load.

I'd be kinda paranoid about using 1.38v on a 32nm 24/7. Electromigration is significant on those chips

Ryan, please lock this thread. It's gone from an enquiry by me to having some users ridicule my choice of purchase. Time for it to stop!

I'd be kinda paranoid about using 1.38v on a 32nm 24/7. Electromigration is significant on those chips

Take a look at the 980x, the only other 32nm chip and people have been running more voltage through it without any ill effects since.There are people running way more than 1.45v on the SB's and they're still holding up.. granted its only been a short time since they've been released. But there is no question they can handle less than 1.4v for daily use.

Take a look at the 980x, the only other 32nm chip and people have been running more voltage through it without any ill effects since.There are people running way more than 1.45v on the SB's and they're still holding up.. granted its only been a short time since they've been released. But there is no question they can handle less than 1.4v for daily use.

I know at least three persons that have killed their 980x chips tho, and I know a bunch that have had to increase the voltages a bunch after a while. And these guys are skilled ocers with world records on hwbot etc. The 2600k might of course have different tolerance for voltages.

Killed their chips because they were constantly overclocking it way past safe daily use levels using LN2, etc? Idk, theres a lot of variables that could go into a chip prematurely dying. I feel safe at 1.38v and will keep it there until I see a solid reason otherwise. :) Are you Wim S. from www.joinava.org? <--- AAL301 David Garrison