980x to Devils Canyon

[JGBR]

I am considering moving on from a Intel 980x based system.

After really being bitterly disappointed with the performance of the 980x CPU and the associated ability of it to warm an entire house, I am considering stepping over to the imminent intel devil canyon CPUs.

The machine is used for gaming in particular Simulation such as FSX, XPlane, Railworks etc and I am on an ever present quest to eradicate blurries and stuttering (all CPU dependent). I had hoped the 980X would tackle these issues but alas it has not nor having a workstation setup. (Only used for simulation, email and music now).

Is moving on from the 980x to Devils Canyon worth it? I know some still like the 980x but in particular feel memory and MB are starting to really lag behind and the 6 cores making no difference even when Overclocked.

Thanks.

 

[pastymuncher]

You may have to wait until September. Rumour has it that there will be a paper launch on the 2nd June with availability in September.

 

[pmc25]

If you have the money, you'd likely be better off waiting for Haswell-E, which is likely to release within weeks of DC.

 

[Cromulent]

If you have the money, you'd likely be better off waiting for Haswell-E, which is likely to release within weeks of DC.

This ^.

Haswell-E is where the real performance gains will be. Since you seem to be so CPU bound I'd wait for that. It should be a real improvement in performance and from what I have read you'd also be getting an 8 core CPU with hyper-threading which will help with modern multi-threaded games / simulations.

 

[AWPC]

I am considering moving on from a Intel 980x based system.

After really being bitterly disappointed with the performance of the 980x CPU and the associated ability of it to warm an entire house, I am considering stepping over to the imminent intel devil canyon CPUs.

The machine is used for gaming in particular Simulation such as FSX, XPlane, Railworks etc and I am on an ever present quest to eradicate blurries and stuttering (all CPU dependent). I had hoped the 980X would tackle these issues but alas it has not nor having a workstation setup. (Only used for simulation, email and music now).

Is moving on from the 980x to Devils Canyon worth it? I know some still like the 980x but in particular feel memory and MB are starting to really lag behind and the 6 cores making no difference even when Overclocked.

Thanks.

I have the same CPU since 2010 when it first came out. Its not worth moving on IMO nothing is that much faster vs the cost unless money is no object. Software is a long way behind the hardware on synthetic benchmarks you will see an increase but in real world useage it will be virtually the same.

My CPU idles @ 28-30C & only goes to around 55C under heavy load I use a Zalman CNPSX10 so heat has never been an issue for me either.

My 980x has run @ 3.46Ghz since 2010 with 12 cores & TBH I cannot see any reason to update it Intel are holding back their real next gen hardware as they are several generations ahead of AMD so even their next hardware is just tech they have held back for several years

Buy an SSD for the OS & a faster GPU if you have to upgrade now