Which MB & CPU Combination is best

[Grantp]

Hi, I suppose this maybe a bit of a NOOB question but I reaaly don't know which will give me best results I currently have the following Motherboards and Processors. I want to build the best PC I can out of these components. I do very little gaming but want the best performance I can get.

So I have :-

ASUS Sabertooth P67 (Motherboard)
ASUS Maximus V Gene Z77 (Motherboard)

Intel i7 2600K (Sandbridge)
Intel i5 3570K (IvyBridge)

What combination will give me best results

 

[WillSK]

Even though the gene is a M-Atx i believe, matching that with the 3570K would produce thee best results in my opinion.

Arguably the 2600K may come into play if you're going to be using the extra cores a lot but for gaming the 3570K and Z77 all the way

 

[Excalabur50]

Gotta agree with WillSK Z77 all the way if gaming

 

[Grantp]

Thanks guys, so are you saying if gaming is NOT my priority I should go i7 2600K with the Maximus V Gene.

 

[Kaapstad]

For maximum performance the 2600K is the more powerful CPU and it is also the better overclocker.

 

[WillSK]

Thanks guys, so are you saying if gaming is NOT my priority I should go i7 2600K with the Maximus V Gene.

Not necessarily. If you tell us what the computer is going to primarily be used for we can give you a better idea.

 

[Grantp]

I use my PC mainly as an Office PC. Word, Excel, Outlook. A lot of WEB Browsing, I run a lot of RainMeter Skins. I use my TV as the monitor so I watch alot of downloaded HD Film/TV. At the moment my main PC has the P67 Motherboard with the 2600K 16GB of Corsair Vengance 1600 RAM and a Corsair Nutron 240GB SSD drive to boot off.

I have the Z77 with the i5 3570K 8GB of Corsair Vengance 1600 RAM 5 x 3TB hard drives running FreeNAS as a file server and FTP Server.

I want to build a server using more server quailty components so I've ordered

Supermicro X9SCM-F Xeon Motherboard
32GB 4x8GB Kingston DDR3 ECC RAM
Intel Xeon 1230-V2 IvyBridge CPU
5x3GB Western Digital RED Harddrives

So I am asking how I should use the i7 2600K / i5 3570K and the Z77 / P67 to best advantage

 

[Feronix]

I'd say 3570k + z77 for a gaming build. It offers PCI-Gen3 and most current games don't use more than 4 cores anyway.

The 2600k and p67 don't support PCI-E 3.0 and are just a bit older tech, but if you do editing stuff the Hyperthreading of the i7 will come in handy. I guess you can also still get some money for it if you sell them though.

 

[WillSK]

I'd say 3570k + z77 for a gaming build. It offers PCI-Gen3 and most current games don't use more than 4 cores anyway.

The 2600k and p67 don't support PCI-E 3.0 and are just a bit older tech, but if you do editing stuff the Hyperthreading of the i7 will come in handy. I guess you can also still get some money for it if you sell them though.

Feronix is right. Personally I'd go with the newer tech (Z77, 3570k) considering you aren't going to be regularly needing the extra threads by the sounds of things.

 

[jamesriley94]

For maximum performance the 2600K is the more powerful CPU and it is also the better overclocker.

Not sure where you've got that from?
-Unless just the general Sandy vs Ivy heat stuff?

After the 2700k came out, all the 2600ks were speed binned 2700ks that couldn't make the clocks. ie - all the late 2600ks were guaranteed not to be amazing clockers.

Fair enough about the extra cores, but Ivy is perfectly capable of clocking up to 4.5/4.6ghz depending on the chip with next to no hassle at all.

 

[JR23]

It seems quite obvious to me if you have all the hardware sitting around just set up a little test bench and see what they can do. Run a few benchmarks and games and find out what works best for you with YOUR actual hardware. There's not much point asking other people who may have had an epic 3570 and a tragic 2600. Obviously if you already have the 2600k in the P67 run some benchmarks before you take it out and then retest in the Z77.

I don't think PCIe3.0 is going to sway the outcome at all in this situation presuming your running a single card at x16.

JR