Some advice...

[Morley]

Hi guys and girls!

I've had my current CPU/Motherboard combo for nearly 5 years now, its a i7 920 on a Rampage II Extreme. Long story short I want to do a new build but my dilemma is one that bug's us all from time to time, which socket to go for!!

Obvious choice is between the 1150 or 2011 socket, but with intel's new CPU coming this year i'm now torn, will the new x99 chipset be that much better than the x79?

Help me out peeps!

 

[AverageNinja]

Just read about the x99 and the 8 core Haswell-e's, they seem impressive.
Though I doubt you're going to need all of that power. What are you going to use your pc for? If it's just for gaming, web browsing and light video editing, I'd say go with 1150 and put the saved money towards a better GPU.

 

[Morley]

I will use it for gaming mostly, i tend to like my computers to last me a long time. My original idea was to purchase the 4930k with the Rampage IV Black Edition and to buy an additional GTX780, i'm thinking a 6 Core CPU will do for future games and save me the need to upgrade for another 5+ years!

 

[AverageNinja]

I see, that seems like a good idea to me, I'd wait for advice from some other forum members though, I don't really have experience with today's platforms :lol:

 

[Feronix]

If the main use of your PC is gaming, go Socket 1150. Most games don't even utilize 4 cores yet, hence why an i7 doesn't perform much better than an i5 in most games at this point in time.

With the next gen consoles, we might see games starting to use up to 8 cores/threads, in which case an 1150 i7 will still be great with 4 physical cores and Hyperthreading (so 8 logical cores).

6 Cores/ 12 Threads will be overkill for a gaming rig and you'll spend a lot more money than you have to. Socket 2011 was mainly made for productivity like modeling/editing and rendering.

 

[NeverBackDown]

4770k, R9 290, MSI GD65 Gaming, SSD, and in the future another 290

 

[Morley]

But will an 4770k be much of an upgrade over my existing i7?

 

[Feronix]

Yeah, Haswell is definitely worth it over a first gen i7

 

[Morley]

Thanks for your help Feronix! I had another concern, obviously there are more PCI-E lanes in the 2011 socket, than there is in the 1150. would i get more performace out of running two 780GTX's on dual x16 than i would on dual x8?

I've seen some reports that it is only 5-10% increase in performance?

 

[UkGouki]

Thanks for your help Feronix! I had another concern, obviously there are more PCI-E lanes in the 2011 socket, than there is in the 1150. would i get more performace out of running two 780GTX's on dual x16 than i would on dual x8?

I've seen some reports that it is only 5-10% increase in performance?

its actually sometimes less that 5% hell in some games the difference is 1fps.. as its running pci:e 3 even on haswell/IB you cant even flood it even at x8 pcie:3 which is really x16 pcie2 with duel gpus you can relativly get 40% increase on average but only in games that support it..

 

[Feronix]

As UKGouki said 2 * 8x is enough bandwidth for 2 high-end cards.
PCI-E 3.0 is about twice as fast as gen 2.0.

You won't really see any difference in real-world scenarios to be honest.

 

[JR23]

Thanks for your help Feronix! I had another concern, obviously there are more PCI-E lanes in the 2011 socket, than there is in the 1150. would i get more performace out of running two 780GTX's on dual x16 than i would on dual x8?

I've seen some reports that it is only 5-10% increase in performance?

Not even slightly I went from a 2600k 2.0 x8 to a 4820k 3.0 x16 with a pair of 780's. It didn't make any difference and my benchmarks actually went down because the 2600k would clock 200MHz higher. I guess that's in part the luck of the draw with each cpu though so I would say it will bring you no real benefits in that respect as Feronix and UKGouki said already.

JR

 

[Morley]

Thank for the information guys! very much appreciated! i'm going to start buying parts for the new rig soon, keep your eyes posted in the Project logs section!

 

[Feronix]

Thank for the information guys! very much appreciated! i'm going to start buying parts for the new rig soon, keep your eyes posted in the Project logs section!

No problem dude.

I certainly will

 

[UkGouki]

Thank for the information guys! very much appreciated! i'm going to start buying parts for the new rig soon, keep your eyes posted in the Project logs section!

your welcome