Is it a good idea to go for x79??

[M1992]

Hello fellow members.

In a month (or so) i'll buy a new CPU and a motherboard for it. But I've come to the point were I'm getting very confused whether I should go for a x79-board and a 3930k, or a z68-board and a 2600k. Is there a relatively large benifit from buying the newer x79, contrarry to the z68.

I'm especially thinking about the "longlivity" of the technologies, because I am not expecting another motrheboard/cpu upgrade in a near future. Will PCI-e 3.0 be important when considering this purchase?

To sum up. If YOU should buy a new system in the upper-mainstream-range. What would you purchase?

Sorry for the lack of better gramma. I'm from Denmark

 

[sheroo]

It depends on what your current and future needs are. For general computing and gaming you will be fine with a 2500K. The SB-E stuff is massive overkill for most people. If you are the sort of person that must have the very best and the money is burning a whole in your pocket then SB-E is for you otherwise you'll be happy with the 2500K.

If you buy a Gen3 board that supports 22nm cpu, you can always upgrade to an Ivy Bridge chip in the future.

 

[Rasmus66]

Another dane

I would take a Z68 setup with a 2600K cpu SB-E is overkill if you just want a good gaming pc.