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2011 or 1155
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.....People using first gen quad cores that they bought 5 years ago... People using first gen i series quad cores they bought how ever long ago... They are both upgrading at around the same time so argument is invalid.
Q6600, i7 920, some folks still have these and planing on keeping them till they want a true gen upgrade. Hell i still got my i7 940 with 285 sli setup and its still doing the rounds.
Yes thats my point... You just said that 2011 would out last 1155/1150 but it won't they will die at the same point.
Thats my preoccupation as well. 2011 is around for a while now and has 2 year-old features. Great platform, great CPU's, we know the 4960 will fit this socket, but appart from the potential for 6 cores if you have the money, there are no other benefits. When next gen sata and DDR4 comes out, all of current and older gen hardware will be "old".
Speaking for myself, I got an i7 930 at 4Ghz and I will upgrade to haswell if everything looks okey in terms of OC and features, otherwise I might wait even longer.
It depends what purpose you're buying for, but old and obsolete are completely different things. I seriously doubt that the arrival of DDR4 will suddenly render all DDR3 systems completely useless. X58 SATA2 and PCIe 2, can you honestly say that the arrival of SATA3 and PCIe 3 made your system useless? I'm on i7 920 and I don't feel like that at all tbh.
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Agree totally, and its not like its going to be like the DDR2-3 transition where a single stick of DDR3-2133MHz had ~ the same bandwidth as dual channel DDR2-1066MHz. X79's quad channel interface means it already has double the bandwidth of Z68/77/87 so when DDR4 does arrive it will simply even out the field. (what I mean is DDR2-800MHz in quad channel would have matched DDR3-1600MHz in dual channel, this will be true for DDR3-2400MHz and DDR4-4800MHz).
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If your considering x79, then the marginal higher price point doesn't worry you.
Therefore buy x79.
IT IS AWESOME.
Upgrade options galore from a 3820 and true tri/quad capability!
Simples.
It may be older, and not have newer features...but do you really care for some of the new features coming out?
Therefore buy x79.
IT IS AWESOME.
Upgrade options galore from a 3820 and true tri/quad capability!
Simples.
It may be older, and not have newer features...but do you really care for some of the new features coming out?
Igpu, supported pci 3.0, better efficiency, and what ever else comes on Haswell which I have no idea about.
Nothing I care for anyway!
2011 all the way.
I am now confused
Perhaps I wasn't overly generous with the information.
Nvidia do not provide supported pci3 for their graphic cards on the x79 platform. You can enable it, but apparently it isn't great, those with electonics knowledge talk of problems and 'signal hangs'. I've enabled it, but with my setup I wouldn't be able to tell the difference...you really need tri to benefit.
Plenty of info on it over on the rog forum.
Basically, X79 hit before PCI-E 3.0 was completely finalized (sort of like a "draft-N" WiFi router), it wasn't until the HD7970 launched that the was even a PCI-E 3.0 card to use on it. Because the quality of the PCI-E 3.0 implementation differs between manufacturers AMD took the approach of enabling it by default so people who experienced issues could choose to disable it, and Nvidia chose to do the opposite (disabled by default but option to enable it).
NB: Running PCI-E 3.0 on a Rampage IV Gene with a GTX670 and everythings fine, as it was on my P9X79-LE.