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stulid said:
Then going back to the the 2600K vs 970 link at the top of the page - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=157

the 2600K just edges ahead, not bad for £231 for the OEM if you have a heatsink, or £275 for retail.
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it does appear to. but i seriously doubt the validity of their 3dsmax testing, since v9 is extremely old (we've had 2008, 9, 10 and 11 since then!). I would like someone to do some up-to-date benches using max 2011 with mental ray or vray for example.
 
stulid said:
Then going back to the the 2600K vs 970 link at the top of the page - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=157

the 2600K just edges ahead, not bad for £231 for the OEM if you have a heatsink, or £275 for retail.
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It might edge it but for people who already have X58 with all its features the 970 could be very attractive.

My UD7 is the best board I have ever owned, loads of memory, full speed SLI/XFire, great overclocking and SATA ports that work!
 
mothermachine said:
it does appear to. but i seriously doubt the validity of their 3dsmax testing, since v9 is extremely old (we've had 2008, 9, 10 and 11 since then!). I would like someone to do some up-to-date benches using max 2011 with mental ray or vray for example.
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do these mean anything?

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/intel-ci5i7-lga1155-p2.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/14

And dont worry about the SATA port thing, it only affects four of the SATA2.0 ports, ASUS boards have loads of better SATA3.0 ports.

And you can swap out the board at anytime upto the end of the warranty time, and then receive a working board with a reset warranty period.
 
stulid said:
do these mean anything?

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/intel-ci5i7-lga1155-p2.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/14

And dont worry about the SATA port thing, it only affects four of the SATA2.0 ports, ASUS boards have loads of better SATA3.0 ports.

And you can swap out the board at anytime upto the end of the warranty time, and then receive a working board with a reset warranty period.
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what they show is that the high end i7s are significantly faster than sandy in rendering, which is the only thing that really matters in CG work when it comes to CPU speed. that was inevitable given that it has 2 extra cores which are fully taken advantage of by a good renderer like mental ray, vray etc. but at least they're testing with relatively up-to-date software :)
 
Why bother getting such an expensive CPU and only running it at stock speed?

Getting at least 4 Ghz out f these CPUs is childs play.
 
bhavv said:
Why bother getting such an expensive CPU and only running it at stock speed?

Getting at least 4 Ghz out f these CPUs is childs play.
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Personally when I spend £500 on a CPU I don't want to be playing around with that stuff. I don't know enough about o/cing and just need absolute stability from my workstations for my business. My overclockers-built 920 oc to 4.0ghz was unstable despite lots of support from them. kinda put me off the whole idea.
 
mothermachine said:
well yeh. it's terrible value for money but... we're talking about how much power you can get at stock speeds in one machine. if i want i7 980 speed out of sandy I have to buy two sandy machines = more expensive overall.
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But would not, the price of two 2600K pc's be worth the performance increase/return in work done/time saved compared to a single 980X cpu?

And I am not trolling(trying to start some 1155 vs 1366 war) or anything in case anyone asks, I mainly know about gaming pc's and specs, so am learning here too.
 
stulid said:
But would not, the price of two 2600K pc's be worth the performance increase/return in work done/time saved compared to a single 980X cpu?
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Yeh, but only if you want to be spending twice as much money. I'm more concerned with getting the most power from 1 workstation as possible. At the moment the only way to do that is to go with top end Intel kit. Unfortunately! Hopefully bulldozer will sort that out, or Sandy 2011 chip will. Xeons are out of my price range too.

btw another big thing to consider is that most of the rendering companies are now changing their policy to allow for multiple cores on one license but not that many physical machines. so in the past it worked out better to be buying lots of workstations with cheaper CPUs, but nowadays we're being forced to buy fewer machines but with more cores/speed to make up the difference. if you see what i mean.

basically it's generally better to have fewer workstations but that run much faster chips. it also saves electricity and space :)
 
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2600K keeps up with the i7 970 due to turbo mode within apps that do not full support multi 6 core / 12 thread execution. Clock the 970 upto 2600K turbo speeds and it will be faster.

Apps that trully support 12 threads are few and far between, but an i7 970 overclocked to 4.5GHz will take some beating within any benchmark. For those with existing X58 mobos, spending £450 on an i7 970 makes as muc sense as spending £250 + mobo costs for an 1155 setup. 1366 will remain top (but rather expensive) dog until Ivy Bridge arrives.
 
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