Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Posts: 17 Location: The Helm of NCC-1701-E
Posted: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:57:43 Post Subject: To Sandy Bridge-E or Ivy Bridge: That is the question....
Well, it's time for an upgrade to my beast. Four years and a mid-life update are now starting to show with my monster. Currently, I'm on my trusty Q9550 LGA775 box.
The real question is whether or not to go to LGA2011, or LGA1155.
So, here's my S2011 Build (case and video card excluded):
GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Item #:N82E16813128532 - $269.99 -$30.00 Instant $239.99
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
Item #:N82E16817139021 - $139.99 -$30.00 Instant $109.99
Id be going for the 2011 build but I seem to go bit overboard on builds :s. Wanting to upgrade my 1366 setup currently but I was wanting to get the hexcore CPU so would end up at ab out £650 for just the mobo and cpu which is abit much. Depends what you are mainly using it for though I guess, reckon the quad memory would give too much of a boost? _________________ Coolermaster HAF 932 II Coolermaster Real Power M1000 II Gigabyte EX58-UD5 II i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz II Corsair H100 CPU Cooler II 24gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz II 2x MSI GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack SLI II Corsair F240 SSD II 2x3Tb Seagate (RAID0) II 1Tb Seagate 7200.12 II 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 II Pinoneer BluRay Writer
Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Posts: 17 Location: The Helm of NCC-1701-E
Posted: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:09:31 Post Subject:
Not really a big gamer (Train Simulator is my most 'intense' game I play).
Mostly using this for music editing, music video grafting (taking videos with 'breaks' in the music or talking and imposing CD tracks over, then syncing the video back).
I was thinking along those lines of starting with a Quad LGA2011, then graduate to a hexacore. But then again, that's what this current build was going to be - going to a Core2 Extreme way back then...
Suppose the extra cores/memory bandwith would help for music and vid editing. I am hoping they release another hexacore and EOL the quad so they all drop in price as it has been out a while now :s. Problem with maybe upgrading later is they could end the socket lol, thats whats happened to mine, cant get anything better than the i7 920 because they dont make them now haha _________________ Coolermaster HAF 932 II Coolermaster Real Power M1000 II Gigabyte EX58-UD5 II i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz II Corsair H100 CPU Cooler II 24gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz II 2x MSI GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack SLI II Corsair F240 SSD II 2x3Tb Seagate (RAID0) II 1Tb Seagate 7200.12 II 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 II Pinoneer BluRay Writer
I went with an LGA 2011 based system mainly because I already had an MSI X79A-GD45 motherboard from a Facebook contest win. I bought a core i7 3820 and used a gift card I had to buy a Corsair Vengeance 16gb memory kit.
That's pretty cool. I made the stupid descion a few months ago to buy one of those corsair kits so atm I have a stick just lying round till I sort my pc out and get another couple of sticks. _________________ Coolermaster HAF 932 II Coolermaster Real Power M1000 II Gigabyte EX58-UD5 II i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz II Corsair H100 CPU Cooler II 24gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz II 2x MSI GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack SLI II Corsair F240 SSD II 2x3Tb Seagate (RAID0) II 1Tb Seagate 7200.12 II 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 II Pinoneer BluRay Writer
Because you mention applications beyond just gaming, my vote is 3770K with a top air cooler (Phanteks PH-TC14PE) at around 4.2 MHz for all around bang for buck. Nothing to pick at with your other hardware choices, all top-shelf kit.
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