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Those of you on X79 - when will you upgrade?

I run my 3970x at 4.7ghz 24/7. I can push on to 4.9ghz (all on multi alone) but I run closer to the thermal limits and there's really no point.

I certainly wouldn't upgrade to anything because it could actually work out to be a down grade (if I got a bad chip for example).

Not worth a £650 risk. Plus I don't want to have to deal with the heat of Haswell E. Makes Sandy E look tame.
 
I can't see any reason to upgrade my 3930 yet, it still does everything I need.
 
X79/3930k user here & won't be changing for a good while yet. The 3930k performs admirably and will do so for a long time to come. If I do upgrade it will be down to the upgrade itch rather than necessity.
 
Cromulent said:
I'm thinking of getting a third monitor and a sound card for that reason :).
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My current "thing" seems to be SSD, as if the two I have weren't enough I keep eyeing the PCIe ones. Probably won't see any real world improvement, same as upgrading my X79 wouldn't see it, but that doesn't stop my mouse hovering over the buy button
 
jkb said:
My current "thing" seems to be SSD, as if the two I have weren't enough I keep eyeing the PCIe ones. Probably won't see any real world improvement, same as upgrading my X79 wouldn't see it, but that doesn't stop my mouse hovering over the buy button
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A PCIe SSD would certainly be pretty sweet. Save a bit of room and some cables in your case as well.
 
Nickolp1974 said:
Cinebench R15
Closest set of scores i could find.

5930@4661mhz 1404. http://hwbot.org/submission/2649300_primafrog_cinebench_r15_core_i7_5930k_1404_cb
3930@5400mhz 1398 http://hwbot.org/submission/2480117_punk_sods_cinebench_r15_core_i7_3930k_1398_cb
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And then you step back into reality, load up a game and realise that it actually makes sod all difference.

CPUs are not important any more. I only bought my 3970x 'cause it was cheap otherwise I would have gone for a 4790k or something.

Why on earth Intel forced it on DDR4 is anyone's guess. I mean why not make it so that it works with DDR3 too? then the 5820k could have become mainstream.

It's all very, very sad. They've released an 8 core, yet even the 6 core is still not affordable to all so the 8 core will become even more of a laughing stock than the 6 core is right now.

GET IT IN A MAINSTREAM SOCKET INTEL.
 
ALXAndy said:
It's all very, very sad. They've released an 8 core, yet even the 6 core is still not affordable to all so the 8 core will become even more of a laughing stock than the 6 core is right now.

GET IT IN A MAINSTREAM SOCKET INTEL.
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I agree, but it won't happen. They are too interested in wasting die space on pointless igpus on the mainstream socket.

The die space wasted on the igpu could instead be another 2 cores :(
 
Any Intel chip from the past 3-5 years is arguably good enough for another 3-5 years, most people don't upgrade out of pure need, but out of want for something new / shiny and different. For those on X79 there's no need, but for those on older AMD stuff or X58, X99 '£150' with something like a 5820K '£280' and 16GB of DDR4 '£180'. Offers the best performance VS price setup Intel have ever launched. So from that perceptive it's a great upgrade for those guys. For those rocking modern Intel setups already there is no need to consider this, but then that's just stating the obvious.

Don't really think there needed to be a thread basically stating "I don't need this". Kind of obvious.. 1st world problems..
 
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BRIGGBOY81 said:
X79 and i7 4820k here and have no intention of upgrading till skylake-e is out. I want a rog swift so that is the next thing I'm buying.
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In a similar boat :). Was going to get a cheap 4930k (if it pops up in the mm of course) but other then that, happy waiting.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Any Intel chip from the past 3-5 years is arguably good enough for another 3-5 years, most people don't upgrade out of pure need, but out of want for something new / shiny and different. For those on X79 there's no need, but for those on older AMD stuff or X58, X99 '£150' with something like a 5820K '£280' and 16GB of DDR4 '£180'. Offers the best performance VS price setup Intel have ever launched. So from that perceptive it's a great upgrade for those guys. For those rocking modern Intel setups already there is no need to consider this, but then that's just stating the obvious.

Don't really think there needed to be a thread basically stating "I don't need this". Kind of obvious.. 1st world problems..
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LOL a X58 hex core is still good for 3-5 years tbh.

I've seen one at 4.6ghz get awfully close to my 3970x when it was at 4.6ghz. In fact, there was 100 points in it in Cinebench.

That's why so many people are jumping on those X58 Xeons. Had I known what I know now I would still have my Giga X58 UD3 and would have tossed one in for £50. Would have saved me an awful lot of money !
 
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