Difference of the 3930K and the 3960X

[daantjuh44]

Hi,

I was wondering if the only difference between the 3930K and the 3960X apart from clock and turbo speed is the 3MB of L3 cache ?

Does that really justify the €400 of price difference ?

How much are those 3MB of cache noticable ?

 

[Cyanide89]

Perhaps this will help:

http://aristeia.com/TalkNotes/PDXCodeCamp2010.pdf

 

[Azurite]

Yes those are the differences. The 3930x comes with a better cooler also. Very unreasonable prize jump

 

[yassarikhan786]

The difference is so minimal that the massive price difference is nowhere near justified. The sensible choice would be to go for the 3930k like Azurite

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[daantjuh44]

Yep that's what I'm leaning towards right now.

Can't wait to start rendering with this beast !

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yep that's what I'm leaning towards right now.

Can't wait to start rendering with this beast !

Awesome. Overclocking wise it should be very similar to the 3960X and you will save £300+, which could go towards a shiny new Graphics Card

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[daantjuh44]

Yep, I can get a 3930K + Motherboard for the same price as a 3960X.

Well I guess it's time to save up some money now haha !

 

[Diablo]

The only other issue is supply

Getting a 3930k seems to be as hard as getting funds out of the bank manager

 

[Diablo]

'Scuse the double post. Yoyotech delivered for me yesterday, so I thought I might post a shot of my first OC on SB-E, 4.5GHz, CPU strap 125mhz 36x ratio at 1.365V in bios. For some reason purely overclocking in the ratio didn't work, I always came out at 3.2GHz.

Either way, SB-E all the way.

 

[badtaylorx]

im not trying to be a twit here.....

a nice overclock indeed...

but the screen shot in itself IS the difference between the 3930K and the 3960X!!!

Im quite positive 5ghz would be in reach of the x-treem

 

[Diablo]

Not according to the review sites out there. Most agree that the 3960x doesn't clock any better. I managed to boot into windows at 5.0GHz, which wasn't IBT stable at 1.38V, and 4.75GHz which was almost stable (failed at about the tenth pass of IBT. I guess with a bit more familiarity with the board I could coax a bit more out of it.