Z68 to Z77 is it worth it?
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Can't see the point unless you upgrade to an Ivy Bridge CPU as well and for the 10-15% gains it's a lot of money to shell out.
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If you look here when testing a HD 7970 (current top-end native PCIE gen3 graphics card) with an X79 board (which is also native PCIE gen3) the performance difference in games between PCIE gen3 x16 and x8 (which is the same bandwidth as current PCIE gen2 x16) is very small indeed.
I would imagine Ivy Bridge PCIE gen3 performance in games to be very similar.
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I really like that Asrock z77 extreme 6 board, sexiest thing I ever saw lol
Not worth it IMO.
Its like having a 3 liter engine and saying will I get more performance out of a brand new 3.1? Of course you will get a marginal boost. But is it worth the money to do it? You already have a 3.0 litre with your current set up. Be delighted with that and realize its still pretty amazing kit.
Personally I think you only truly notice multi-generational jumps in hardware or completely new (at consumer level prices) innovations like SSD. Generation to generation is marginally noticeable as a general rule.
The Q6600 that I just upgraded from is five years old and hand on heart its still not that an amazing jump to the i7 in my current rig. Such is the power of recent hardware. I think the one area where performance comes on in leaps and bounds in graphics - and hence the pricing of recent cards.
That's my opinion FWIW.
Its like having a 3 liter engine and saying will I get more performance out of a brand new 3.1? Of course you will get a marginal boost. But is it worth the money to do it? You already have a 3.0 litre with your current set up. Be delighted with that and realize its still pretty amazing kit.
Personally I think you only truly notice multi-generational jumps in hardware or completely new (at consumer level prices) innovations like SSD. Generation to generation is marginally noticeable as a general rule.
The Q6600 that I just upgraded from is five years old and hand on heart its still not that an amazing jump to the i7 in my current rig. Such is the power of recent hardware. I think the one area where performance comes on in leaps and bounds in graphics - and hence the pricing of recent cards.
That's my opinion FWIW.
Not that it will make much difference unless you are using the onboard GPU...
Yes on both!! I have both and have tested. The Z77 I have is also much better than my Z68 at clocking DRAM and especially with all DRAM slots populated.
Correct!!! DIMMS absolutely fly on Z77 with Ivy!! evan higher than 2800mhz as you speculate. DIMMS do better with Sandy too on Z77 compared to Z68. With full dimm population Z77 is very very strong indeed
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Does it get you any performance gain though? It's all nice running crazy frequencies but we've not been RAM bandwidth limited since DDR days.
i know that asus z77 have implemented parallel memory reads where it gives upto 15% more speed on the ram as its not slowed down by reading from the furthest memory slot from the cpu,idk if other boards have this feature
You need to get out more, better still go clubbing lot`s of eye candy
yeah but you dont wake up with an std when you got an asrock!!!
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You need to get out more, better still go clubbing lot`s of eye candy
Clubbing for kids, I'm a grown up.
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