3570K or 2500K?
- Thread starter Judderman
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depends on what you want to use the rig for and what other components you are sticking into the rig, personally, i would say that on that sort of budget you are likely to be using air cooling, and thus you are better with the 2500k if you plan on overclocking, if not, then ivy is pretty much the same as sandy, and thus theres no difference in performance, it then comes down to price and what you want from the motherboard
Master&Puppet
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If you are jumping ship to 1155 then go for IB. Sure you have to fight to get better performance out of it but it is still a better system overall. In fact I see this as a challenge as an overclocker and I'm damn well going to beat it!
Lower power consumption
Better clock for clock performance (and better performance overall if you work at your cooling)
pcie3 support if you go SLI.
Much better memory controller if you want to populate your ram slots.
Some fun with Lucid MVP.
I've just jumped from a 1100t and ordered a 3570k on an MSI z77a GD55. You can get both of those from ARIA for £285 (with free shipping if you follow the instructions and havent already). There are lots of great z77 mobos out there and the gd55 is as good as any.
Lower power consumption
Better clock for clock performance (and better performance overall if you work at your cooling)
pcie3 support if you go SLI.
Much better memory controller if you want to populate your ram slots.
Some fun with Lucid MVP.
I've just jumped from a 1100t and ordered a 3570k on an MSI z77a GD55. You can get both of those from ARIA for £285 (with free shipping if you follow the instructions and havent already). There are lots of great z77 mobos out there and the gd55 is as good as any.
Jadarite
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Also have a look on www.dabs.com as they have some of the lowest price around and try code sunny10 as this might get you £10 off i would also suggest the 3570K with the Asus Maximus V Gene or the Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 , hope this is of some help to you
KING_OF_SAND
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Once I see a 3570k beat my 5.5ghz 2500k, I will be impressed. But considering the ivy chips don't overclock for squat because of garbage thermals (Your liquid cooling wont work) you are better off getting the i7. Sorry to be so blunt.
Master&Puppet
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Well yes and no dude - it's not like anyone needs more than 4.5ghz for 24/7 on any chip for gaming. In fact an i5 at stock will do anyone proud so it's kind of a mute point in that regard.
An IB build has many other advantages that SB doesn't depending on what you want (power consumption, pcie 3 if you go for twin modern cards and memory controller most notably for me). These things make up for a slightly lower clock than SB for most people who won't use those extra 200 mhz anyway.
You have a good chip at 5.5 but what's your 24/7 clock?
Take a look at this review which amongst other things compares the 2500k and 3570k both at 5ghz.
http://www.bit-tech....0k-cpu-review/1
You can see that the IB chip is a noticably better performer clock for clock and with a power consumption nearly 15% less than the 2500k at that clock too. They only used an H100 and whilst temps were right on the limits 4.5-4.7ghz is definitely achievable for most people and is approximately equivalent to a 2500k performance at 4.8-5ghz plus the other advantages.
IB is a worthy successor to SB IF you don't already own SB. Because SB is still truly awesome! But let's not get into IB bashing like we did with BD where it was deserved.
I definitely disagree with the i7 argument - unless you are doing something beyond general use and gaming which needs the extra threads and 10-30% performance then you are paying a heck of a lot more, like 50% more (i5=£170 i7=£250) for something you will never use AND you are compounding the heat issue by adding hyper threading.
I'll accept your challenge of trying to beat 5.5 ghz on a 3570k! I'll doubt I'll do it but I will try (I have a couple of tricks up my sleeve but still only using watercooling) I'm defo going to get above 5 stable within temps! We'll see...
