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4770 or 4930?

Zarniwoop

Zarniwoop

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I am looking at a new build with either a 4770 or 4930 CPU and either 2 290x or 2 780ti GPUs. I will be water cooling the CPU and GPUs.

I quite like the idea of the 4930 due to the additional cores but I am not really sure if I will notice the benefit in real (non benchmark) use. It will be mainly used for gaming (Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous plus whatever else takes my fancy!) and some quite intensive image editing (manipulating/merging multiple 36meg image files).

Would the 4770 be pretty much as good or is the 4930 worth the extra cost?

Any opinions or advice would be most welcome
 
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The 4770 is optimal. It will require removing heat plate and replacing thermal interface for a water cooling setup.
 
Since it seems you are in a budget and 4770 + 2 290X or 4930K and 780Ti, how about 4820K and 2 290X?

It stills leaves you with upgrade to 4930K or 4960X if you wish to do so in later date, and isn't dead end like the Haswel platform.
Also you will get that little more extra perfomance of those 2 290X on the full blown 40 lanes PCI-e the Ivy-E has, than the 16 lanes of the Haswell.

Also take into consideration, that you do not need those expensive Asus board to overclock well on X79 platform.
I have the "low end" MSI X79 GD45 Plus and I wouldn't change it for any other.

I personally got a 4820K and a 780.

Please consider, that I do not open a Haswell vs Ivy-e discussion. Just adding another idea.
 
Thanks for your replies. I worded my post in a misleading way (now corrected), I meant to say 2 290x or 2 780ti cards. The overall cost is not my major concern if the performance is worth it. My thinking regarding the 4930 was that It might be better long term as the extra cores might prove worthwhile if I ended up throwing more demanding tasks at it in the future.

A few years ago I was better informed on processors but I have got a bit out of touch recently so I am not sure how much difference I will notice in 'real world' use as opposed to benchmarks.
 
I'm in the same boat at the moment but I've decided to go for the 2011 setup as I like the idea of having the additional PCI express lanes!
 
I personally just received my 4930k today and the biggest factor was I can go tri sli or quad sli when I want to. Was considering a 4820k but just thought of it as an expensive stop gap until inevitably buying a 4930k. However your needs are similar to mine and most people suggested 4770k.
 
Some of the z87 motherboards have full dual x16 pcie lanes so if you were only going for two cards Haswell is still an option. As mentioned x79 socket is replaced this year with x99 and Haswell-e. So bottom line is get which either one you feel more comfortable with on price.
 
If you want to go x79 > 4820K very good CPU OC'd mine to 4.6ghz 1.34v easily plus you can upgrade to a 4930K later.

Haswell is slightly faster no bigee, but you will get that little more extra performance with full blown 40 lanes PCI-e the Ivy-E has, than the 16 lanes of the Haswell, like panos said.
 
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Some of the z87 motherboards have full dual x16 pcie lanes so if you were only going for two cards Haswell is still an option.
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The CPU controller supports 16 lanes only though. So 2 cards will always run at 8x/8x.

@OP

If you can afford the 4930K, get it. You will not need an upgrade for many years, especially if you buy the 290X.


As for someone who said LGA2011/X79 is dead, yes it is. As the Haswel LGA1150.
However on Haswell the best you can buy is the 4 core 4770K. On X79 there are 2 6 core/12 HT cpus if you need more power. (4930K & 4960X)
 
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Panos said:
The CPU controller supports 16 lanes only though. So 2 cards will always run at 8x/8x.

@OP

If you can afford the 4930K, get it. You will not need an upgrade for many years, especially if you buy the 290X.


As for someone who said LGA2011/X79 is dead, yes it is. As the Haswel LGA1150.
However on Haswell the best you can buy is the 4 core 4770K. On X79 there are 2 6 core/12 HT cpus if you need more power. (4930K & 4960X)
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There are some boards that run at x16, x16 Panos such as:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-231-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-043-EA&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

As said, both sockets are dead.....pretty much every chip comes on a new platform :P

Either the 4770K or the 4930K will serve you well, get the system for the budget that feels right for you.
 
4820k - asrock extreme6 x79 - corsair h80 - 16gb teamgroup 2400 quad channel.
£600

how much is a 4930k? £419 lol

sat at 4.8ghz with no "should I have bought a 6 core" looming in my mind
 
it is typical we always want the things with more, but there has been countless benchmarks in games & the i7 4770k outperforms the 4930k in basically every game you can think of, if its gaming your doing I would say save the extra £200 you will spend on the 4930k and go for them 4770k,but I can understand if you want to go to 2011 just for the RIVE Black :)
 
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