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Kellogz

Kellogz

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Sorry for the recent posts, im having a bit of a dilemma with my January upgrade, I have around £1350 to spend (If i need too spend it all) On an upgrade. I need with this GFX Card, Mobo, Ram, CPU. I already have a NZXT 810 case, and a Corsair AX850 PSU and hdd and other bits. So i just need advice on what CPU, Mobo, Ram and if theres a better option for GPU for me.

My previous rig was in i5 2500k with crossfire 7970s but it wasnt enough for me and now ive sold one of the 7970s. While I game I do like to also do streaming which tends to take quite a chunk of the CPU usage and did effect my game performance. I want to go i7 but I can not decide which way to go, either Ivy-E route or Haswell route. I also plan to eventually go SLI 780TIs but its only on a 120hz 1080 monitor. I mainly use the PC for gaming but i do use it also for streming which envolves video compression and encoding on the fly. Ive had ATI since ive had a PC, but the recent issues with my crossfire rig has taken nearly all my faith away from ATI cards, unless someone can give me reasons why the x290s in CF wont give me the same issues, and that the 780TI SLI wont be better. Price for perfomance isnt really a massive selling point to me because i went this theory with the 7970s and was let down.

Something else to consider would be overclocking as well as i plan to give this a full go also. I already have a h100 here ready to use also.

Thanks so much in advance!
 
Hey, here is a little something I put together, went with a slight green theme, maybe ad some LED lights or something to finish off the touch.

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti Superclock 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (03G-P4-2883-KR) £559.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £247.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIG) - Green Light £71.99
Total : £1,009.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Also slightly faster ram which is currently out of stock and 16GB option, which might help with your multi tasking needs while playing a game.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Venom Series 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-4CIG) - Green Light £119.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330904G-2CIG) - Green Light £74.99
Total : £204.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Green is an easy theme for me, running a NZXT LED control so yeh :) Thanks looks a decent spec, what made you take the haswell over the Ivy-E?
 
Kellogz said:
what made you take the haswell over the Ivy-E?
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I assume price mainly..

The 4820k (2011) lags behind the 4770k in outright performance..

Though the 4930k is a better chip (6 cores, 12 threads) but costs £100+ more.

Then the motherboards cost more too (and you may need to go through the hassle of updated the BIOS, which would make me spec an asus board, as this can be done CPU-less).

And the fact 2011 needs quad channel RAM to perform at its best, which would mean needing to get 16GB, another extra expense.
 
Mind giving me an ivy-e spec Doomedspeed? and you say the 4770k out performs the 4820k but how is the 4770k in comparison to the 4930k? I dont know too much about CPUs but, for future proofing with the consideration of the SLI in the future, which would be best.
 
Here a quick comparison of the 3930k and 3770k (previous generations of each chip)

As you can see the 2011 chip out performs on multi-threaded applications while trudging behind in the gaming tasks.. Though it will bottleneck less than the 1150 counterpart (if that ever becomes an issue)..

2011 spec:

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (03G-P4-2881-KR) £549.95
1 x Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail (BX80633I74930K) £439.99
1 x Asus P9X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £199.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G160C9QK) £119.99
Total : £1,319.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
hmmm im guessing using a program like X-split which screen records and encodes on the fly is a multi thread application?
 
Yea my i5 can handle it and record and encode at 1080 60FPS but... my cpu gets swamped hence looking for an upgrade. The multi application usage is the major thing to me as i plan to try and go professional with my streaming ive already got the majority of equipment for it just need to update the rig. you said i dont need a CPU to do the bios update for you, but would OC do the bios update aswell?
 
Yeah sounds like the 4930k would be a better choice for you.

The BIOS update may not be needed but its worth noting. The problem is the 4930k is released on an older chipset. There is no special chipset for the 4930k.

I think you can update the BIOS from usb, and the Asus lets you do it with no CPU installed.
 
Thanks a lot seems ill go ivy-e root, just gonna now look at options with that. I know i (Shouldnt) be looking at components due to color, but heh.. cant help but see the possibility's.
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-588-AS

This mobo along with rampage black have been build for the ivy-e cpu's specifically all their other x79 mobo apart from i think one msi and the (evga dark) work with bios updates.

So basically the bios patches it for these chips where as the above board/s and rampage black have been designed bios and funtions from the ground up for ivy-e.

Theres a few new egg videos with the rep from asus confirming this on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQ9reTBuBM
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (03G-P4-2881-KR) £549.95
1 x Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail (BX80633I74930K) £439.99
1 x Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £239.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-4CIW) - White Light £129.95
Total : £1,369.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



This is what i have atm, still looking at things, the board seems perfect watched a lot of reviews and its been recommended so ill think ill go for that one with the i7 ivy-e i chose along with the 780TI, just looking at the ram atm, i like the white due to the LED system i have in my PC atm, and would like to do a white build, but will be looking at performance reviews for the ram. I noticed you chose the 12800 ram, is there a reason you didnt suggest the Avexir white over the patriot? Gonna see if i can dig more info in the meantime on this.

These are the Rams im debating with atm.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9) £149.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-4CIW) - White Light £129.95
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/16X) £125.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G160C9QK) £119.99
Total : £535.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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B grades are normally returns (under dsr, not rma) so may not have box/manual and may be missing some accessories but is in fully working order.
 
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