3930k sidestep?

[BubbySoup]

I have the chance of getting a 3930k for free. My current setup is a 4770k @ 4.4k driving 780's in SLI @ 1440p - it's used purely for gaming.

Circumstances mean I can't just take the chip and sell it on for a profit, I either use it or I don't have it. The chip has never been overclocked as far as I am aware, and has sat in a pc with the bog standard Intel cooler on it. The 3930k's seem to be pretty good clockers from what I have read though.

So, is it worth taking my loop apart for this? Selling my current chip and motherboard/ram will fund a new motherboard & ram I would imagine.

The sensible part of me says this is a side step at best (depending on the o/c), but the geek in me wants hexacore!

 

[Ace Modder]

For gaming which won't use all 6 cores then the Haswell will be better clock for clock.
The marginal RAM improvement for Quad Channel will not be noticed at all either.
If you do multicore stuff like encoding or hardcore PS at all, then the 3930K will be slightly better with the added cores.

My 3930K overclockers very well, but it's hit and miss whether that one will. Also if you do take it, would you need to buy a socket 2011 board?
Remember SB-E doesn't natively support USB3.0 either, which Haswell does.

 

[Yaayuh!]

As a 3930K owner, i would suggest keeping the 4770K. You've got to many benefits using a newer system regardless of having 2/4 less cores/threads. You would be going backwards IMO.
Stick with what you have.

 

[BubbySoup]

Thanks both. Looks like I will pass then.

I so wanted to see the 6 cores/12 threads in task manager too

 

[joeyjojo]

It's about 27% faster clock-for-clock when fully utilised, but that shrinks to about 8%-11% in even a CPU-heavy game like BF4. It would make sense if you had 3 or more GPUs, otherwise not worth it.