The LGA2011 socket has failed to capture the public's heart, does the IvyBridge-E refresh manage to win us over?
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Intel X79 Core i7 4960X Review
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These results made me laugh, reminds me of amd going backwards in performance lol.
I only wonder why did they bother spending money to release this cpu,does the x79 provide that many benefits over 2011? other than that its waste of time money,unless people actually gonna buy this just because its new lols
Whoever gonna buy this is not going to care about little power savings at all.
Anyway awesome review as always ^_^
I only wonder why did they bother spending money to release this cpu,does the x79 provide that many benefits over 2011? other than that its waste of time money,unless people actually gonna buy this just because its new lols
Whoever gonna buy this is not going to care about little power savings at all.
Anyway awesome review as always ^_^
From reading this I think my 3930K is safe and isn't going to be appearing on eBay any time soon.
I really did think that Ivebridge-e would have it's own new chipset and motherboards. Something to make it a more complete package with more on offer than some power improvements and a RAM speed bump. Come on can anyone really tell that their RAM is running at 2133MHz or 2400+ without looking? As for power consumption, if that was important to me do you think I would be running a 2011 rig???? FFS!
Dare I say that without AMD chasing them properly Intel has become a little lazy?
I really did think that Ivebridge-e would have it's own new chipset and motherboards. Something to make it a more complete package with more on offer than some power improvements and a RAM speed bump. Come on can anyone really tell that their RAM is running at 2133MHz or 2400+ without looking? As for power consumption, if that was important to me do you think I would be running a 2011 rig???? FFS!
Dare I say that without AMD chasing them properly Intel has become a little lazy?
As Xeon dose not over clock the simple answer is that it doesn't. Well not from an enthusiasts point of view. Now if you are a Workstation manufacturer building stock clock monsters then dual Xeon makes perfect sense. However dual 8 (16 thread) core stock monster workstations are real nice a proper one costs many many thousands of pounds. When I build my 2011 rig last year the cost was pushing 3 grand, that is a lot of coin, this rig will have to do me for some time...
NoPrisoners
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I'm a little disappointed that the OC potential of these are looking a bit weak. I'm not that surprised though as the same trend was seem on the mainstream SB->IB transition.
I will be keeping my 3930k as it will do 4.8 GHz+. If I were building a workstation I would go the Xeon-E5 and ECC memory route, yes that is at least another 50% in the cost, but for doing multi-physics modeling (Comsol) then it makes more sense.
I will be keeping my 3930k as it will do 4.8 GHz+. If I were building a workstation I would go the Xeon-E5 and ECC memory route, yes that is at least another 50% in the cost, but for doing multi-physics modeling (Comsol) then it makes more sense.
kittysniper
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meh
Thanks for the review as always, but I gotta say I never expected much out of these, ivy bridge minor upgrade huge price as last gen, no change in socket or chipset, not worth upgrading from 3960/3970x and 3930k still wipes the floor in price to performance, still unbeatable performance though....I wish amd can make a comeback in the extreme performance market so we can finally see some price drops/more interesting cpus in the future.
Thanks for the review as always, but I gotta say I never expected much out of these, ivy bridge minor upgrade huge price as last gen, no change in socket or chipset, not worth upgrading from 3960/3970x and 3930k still wipes the floor in price to performance, still unbeatable performance though....I wish amd can make a comeback in the extreme performance market so we can finally see some price drops/more interesting cpus in the future.
I only had 2 sticks of 2666 memory without ripping the 4 out of orca (look at the prices of that stuff)
2 sticks is easier for the cpu too. all the benchmarks were done with 2400mhz Vengence Pro running at rated speed and timings.
Cool. When I seen that I was thinking it was a bios issue or something and the ram wasn't registering right but I'm glad that's not the case
Great review as always. Keep them coming
mihapiha
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Man, I must say I'm confused now. I was kinda waiting for Ivy-Bridge-E for my next gaming system but now I'm unsure on what to do.
I will focus in my build on the graphic cards, that's obvious. But I still don't know what to get...
I really wanted to make a good looking rig more than a good performing one, as one card is usually enough for any game these days. So please keep this in mind when you help me make a good choice.
I went with the 900D and I am in the middle of putting a really powerful water cooling into it. It will house 2x 480 monsta (80mm thick) radiators and two D5 pumps in a single loop. So I should have all the power I could possibly need. Fans are Corsair SP120 quiet edition fans.
The consumption bit doesn't really worry me too much, as I am folding 24/7 right now and the folding farm will get replaced. And that is pulling 700W from the wall 24/7. So any gaming rig replacement will probably be on average lower than that.
So originally the idea was to use 3 or 4 graphic cards in this new system. Like I said, primarily for looks! And then an adequate system to support such a thing.
Now I'm really unsure. I was looking forward to some new motherboards as the Rampage IV Extreme seems so old right now, and I don't believe it's really worth spending money on. On the other hand I don't know what motherboard to choose with a 4770k....
My basic problem either way is a good MB+CPU combination to support 4 graphic cards. Probably 4x 7970s if I can get my hand on them cheap. Or I'll wait for the HD8000 series.
Does anybody have any suggestions on what to get to support 4 GPUs properly?
I will focus in my build on the graphic cards, that's obvious. But I still don't know what to get...
I really wanted to make a good looking rig more than a good performing one, as one card is usually enough for any game these days. So please keep this in mind when you help me make a good choice.
I went with the 900D and I am in the middle of putting a really powerful water cooling into it. It will house 2x 480 monsta (80mm thick) radiators and two D5 pumps in a single loop. So I should have all the power I could possibly need. Fans are Corsair SP120 quiet edition fans.
The consumption bit doesn't really worry me too much, as I am folding 24/7 right now and the folding farm will get replaced. And that is pulling 700W from the wall 24/7. So any gaming rig replacement will probably be on average lower than that.
So originally the idea was to use 3 or 4 graphic cards in this new system. Like I said, primarily for looks! And then an adequate system to support such a thing.
Now I'm really unsure. I was looking forward to some new motherboards as the Rampage IV Extreme seems so old right now, and I don't believe it's really worth spending money on. On the other hand I don't know what motherboard to choose with a 4770k....
My basic problem either way is a good MB+CPU combination to support 4 graphic cards. Probably 4x 7970s if I can get my hand on them cheap. Or I'll wait for the HD8000 series.
Does anybody have any suggestions on what to get to support 4 GPUs properly?
kittysniper
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troll?
If U truly want a EXPENSIVE gaming rig get 2 msi lightning 780 or just 1, 3 or 4 will hurt frame rates in lots of games as each card processes 1/4 the frames in turn and there will be stuttering, but if U want to do it for epeen go with x79 for z87 can't support 4 way sli/crossfire(40 lane pcie) without a voodoo chip which will "hurt" performance, the reasonable alternative for z87 chipset is 2 gtx690 or dual hd7990 using 2 x8 pcie(however they are last generation compared to 780). Anyways good luck building or imagining ur rig imma go bk to play on my 3770k dual 7970 rig which I salvaged from open box discount bins in the poor persons corner:mellow:
