Arcmanov's rig evolves...

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[kgfalby]

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[Arcmanov]

I haven't made up my mind yet, but I've narrowed it down to these two:


Asus P9X79




Gigabyte GA-X79 UD3





The Asus is slightly cheaper, but the Gigabyte is much deadlier in terms of features.

Waiting on the prices to come down a bit more though.

[kgfalby]

The Gigabyte boards have been treating me very well, but the Asus board has a bit more space between the cards for xfire air flow.

Unless of course you get a heavy pay increase a looking at 4 cards?! 

[Arcmanov]

[Notnice]

niceness

[captainchris]

oh yeahhhhh

[EmperorXavier]

8 core cpu in 2012.. u poor muddaf#$Ker!!!

but dude nice budget upgrade.. well done

[captainchris]

^^ LOLz

[Skepsis]

^^ LOLz

X2

[shivanandrs]

Lol!

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[Spazosaurus]

You have plans to go 6 core in the future? because if you're planning to stick to quad core, Ivy Bridge is a cheaper, equally performing option.

i7 3770k and midrange Z77 board will do you just fine. Might overclock better too.

[Arcmanov]

...except that the 3770k gets too hot for my liking when overclocked, so no.

As for six-core... Intel will keep that...unless the price drops to about 350 US or thereabouts.
6 cores/12 threads looks really nice in the benchmark stats, but I use my PC primarily for gaming, and all that extra money for 'just' two extra cores I cannot justify...especially in light of the fact that it will make ZERO difference in the games I currently play.

...and, well, I simply can't afford it.

Still, it's nice to have that upgrade option in case one fall off a truck somewhere. 

Intel's prices will ensure that I stay smack-dab in the midrange. 

Here's to another 3 years...



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[captainchris]

^ WRONG

it will not, not make ZERO difference.

MANY of benches have shown fps increasings with high clock speeds..


better than that!


but totally agree with ur reasoning and well those who know you, you gots things to take care off..

doe study cpt

[Arcmanov]

Increases of what?  Less than 10 fps in most if not all cases @ resolutions of 1080p and above? 

Better than THAT!!!

I've seen all the benches too yuh know. 


Other than 3DMark apps, there's no way I can (personally) justify that extra 300 US.
That is 2 SSDs...or one mid-range GPU.

I'd quicker spend 600 US on two GPUs, than one CPU, however beastly.  To me that just makes more economic sense...'bang for buck', if you will.
The little-to-no extra bang not justifying all that extra buck. 

[captainchris]

well you cannot say 10fps is ZERO now can you?

come again..

[Notnice]

if  u was not going 6 core u should of gotten an i7 2600k.

[Arcmanov]

Why though?

A Z68/2600K combo is only 150 TT less (I did the math).

Besides, an overclocked 3820 will wipe the floor with a 2600K. 


...and 10 fps not worth 300 US in my book.  YMMV of course.

[TriniXaeno]

aye aye, doh be bad talking the 2600k

[Notnice]

Why though?

A Z68/2600K combo is only 150 TT less (I did the math).

Besides, an overclocked 3820 will wipe the floor with a 2600K. 


...and 10 fps not worth 300 US in my book.  YMMV of course.

Was just saying