4960X gets tested

[pgi947]

Current x79 boards will need a bios update, just as z68 did, any new boards are reported to have more sata 6g and usb 3.0 sockets that's all.

I'd now take the 4820k over 4770k purely to avoid the hassle of delid to get reasonable perf. 4930k for me though I think, should see me through to haswell-e and ddr4!!

 

[OLDPHART]

I'd now take the 4820k over 4770k purely to avoid the hassle of delid to get reasonable perf. !

I been thinking of getting OCUK OC Bundle to reduce the Silicone Lottery and having to delid, may be the best way to aviod these problems. So you should have no problems selling it when you upgrade again.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Did it??? All my Haswells are 4.9+ DDR2933+

I am looking forward to my Ivy E arriving.

Ah now we know the reason for the lack of good Haswell overclcokers from OC's

 

[Boomstick777]

I'd now take the 4820k over 4770k purely to avoid the hassle of delid to get reasonable perf. 4930k for me though I think, should see me through to haswell-e and ddr4!!

Sounds like a good plan, I'm dropping down to mainstream 4770K from X79 3960X. Save a bit of money, good performance / low power, may be tempted to go back to high end when Intel release some 8 core Haswell goodness. Or maybe 8 core Skylake.. Should have more money floating around then as well.. This year is costing me a fortune !!

 

[Zeed]

8 Pack You must have some telepathy trick then
For myself 4 core haswell [email protected] would be perfect tbh. I dont do anything besides gaming on my ring so i dont need 8 cores

 

[kedge]

Current x79 boards will need a bios update.

Oh right i never knew this, i thought the rumours were that X79 is being phased out to make way for new stuff?, rumours eh.

 

[TwsT]

looks like i might have found my next upgrade 4820k

 

[pgi947]

Oh right i never knew this, i thought the rumours were that X79 is being phased out to make way for new stuff?, rumours eh.

Yep

Wasn't that long ago some were saying it had been entirely cancelled too

 

[Tonester0011]

Sounds like a good plan, I'm dropping down to mainstream 4770K from X79 3960X. Save a bit of money, good performance / low power, may be tempted to go back to high end when Intel release some 8 core Haswell goodness. Or maybe 8 core Skylake.. Should have more money floating around then as well.. This year is costing me a fortune !!

You should also downgrade your GTX780s. I heard HD7770s play everything @1440p MAXED OUT!!!!
Value for money is epic as well!!!

 

[Tonester0011]

Has there been any overclocked results? Would like to know what kind of Physics scores the 49** gets on 3D11/3DVantage etc.

 

[Nickolp1974]

Has there been any overclocked results? Would like to know what kind of Physics scores the 49** gets on 3D11/3DVantage etc.

No, there will be none until the nda is lifted.

 

[Tonester0011]

No, there will be none until the nda is lifted.

Upwards of 18k-19k @5Ghz for 3D11 and i'll be swapping out my 3930k for one, as i only just get 17k @5.1Ghz with mine. Shame with the review sites, they tend to use crappy ram so never really shows the true potential of the chip, hopefully 8-Pack with give real info once the NDA is lifted (When?? )

 

[Nickolp1974]

Q3 and supposed to be first week in september.

 

[Besty]

Yep

Wasn't that long ago some were saying it had been entirely cancelled too

Now we know why.

If it provides 5.5GHZ-6GHZ stable on warm water then fair enough but out of the box performance is a fail, I had high hopes but they have been dash-ed

 

[8 Pack]

Out of the box who cares!!!!!!!!

This is Overclockers man!!! Lets kick this CPU hard and then make our decisions.