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Intel Core i7-3930K, worth the asking price?

i love my 3930k but i use it for mostly rendering, so i get the most out of it, well worth it if you do heavily multithreaded stuff that you need done as quick as possible. If you dont do that kind of thing then the difference between it and a quad core could be better spent elsewhere.

There will be an element of future proofing with the 3930k though if its a machine you intend to last a long time, i dont buy the "no game uses more than 4 cores" because many do, and some games are also assigning certain process's to individual cores, for example the latest patch for il2 cod moves the terrain generator and grass generator to there own cores, the patch notes say it will be most beneficial on machine with 4+ cores. As time go's on hopefully this will become the norm, its not to say a 6 core will be any better at running the games in a couple years time than the 4 core, who knows where the bottle neck will be, but as long as the coding keeps improving 6+ cores should be beneficial, so if you intend to keep the machine a long time i wouldnt rule it out.
 
Zuban said:
i love my 3930k but i use it for mostly rendering, so i get the most out of it, well worth it if you do heavily multithreaded stuff that you need done as quick as possible. If you dont do that kind of thing then the difference between it and a quad core could be better spent elsewhere.

There will be an element of future proofing with the 3930k though if its a machine you intend to last a long time, i dont buy the "no game uses more than 4 cores" because many do, and some games are also assigning certain process's to individual cores, for example the latest patch for il2 cod moves the terrain generator and grass generator to there own cores, the patch notes say it will be most beneficial on machine with 4+ cores. As time go's on hopefully this will become the norm, its not to say a 6 core will be any better at running the games in a couple years time than the 4 core, who knows where the bottle neck will be, but as long as the coding keeps improving 6+ cores should be beneficial, so if you intend to keep the machine a long time i wouldnt rule it out.
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List of 5 games that use a quad core at 100% please.
 
There are really little to no triple A's that are CPU intensive what so ever. There is so few it's not worth going "so there is a game that can use 20% of the processor and all 8 threads at once this make it worth spending £600 on an enthusiast chip that I'm barely going to be utilising enough to get my moneys worth"
 
Well, from what I understand based on the info you guys have given me so far is that the SB-E chip is more of a professionals chip. So chances are the games and software I use aren't really designed to make use of that kind of chip?
 
Ollie1132 said:
There are really little to no triple A's that are CPU intensive what so ever. There is so few it's not worth going "so there is a game that can use 20% of the processor and all 8 threads at once this make it worth spending £600 on an enthusiast chip that I'm barely going to be utilising enough to get my moneys worth"
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It doesnt need to be cpu intensive to benefit though, just means more can be done within the same amount of time, and one thread not having to share processor time means those two threads happen simultainiously instead of sequentially, and that could be the difference between a stutter and smooth playing, which is exactly why they moved certain process's to there own cores in il2 cod, and why i used it as an example, it really doesnt matter if its using 1 or 100% of a cores time if one thread is delaying another it has potential to cause an issue.

i'm not going to argue if its worth it or not, because at the moment it very much isnt unless you have some specific need for it, but as time go's on it will become beneficial, in 3-4 years time it could be the difference between needing a new machine or not, thats all i'm saying, it may seem a waste of money now but perhaps in a few years it will pay you back.
 
Ollie1132 said:
List of 5 games that use a quad core at 100% please.
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So basically we should all go back to single core, yeah?

For GAMING ONLY, an SB is good enough. There is no need for the SB-E... but I wanted one ;)

The Tourist said:
Well, from what I understand based on the info you guys have given me so far is that the SB-E chip is more of a professionals chip. So chances are the games and software I use aren't really designed to make use of that kind of chip?
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A piece of software designed to use a single core will run faster on a BETTER core, i.e. the SB-E
A piece of software designed to use 4 cores will STILL run faster on a BETTER core set

If you are worried about money, buy standard SB
 
How much RAM do you think I would realistically need?

SB-E boards I think let you have up to 64 GB RAM? I'm pretty sure I don't need that much now and I'm not sure if the stuff I use my PC for will ever need that much, even 3 to 4 years from now. I don't know.

It seems that my CPU choice will determine my motherboard choice and therefore my RAM options. I just got to decide.

If I went 3770 K, then i suppose one of the advantages is that the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 is currently on offer :p
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
So basically we should all go back to single core, yeah?

For GAMING ONLY, an SB is good enough. There is no need for the SB-E... but I wanted one ;)



A piece of software designed to use a single core will run faster on a BETTER core, i.e. the SB-E
A piece of software designed to use 4 cores will STILL run faster on a BETTER core set

If you are worried about money, buy standard SB
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Looks like you're using the 3930 k :D

So for just playing games would you would recommend SB like 2700k? Not IB 3770 k? Budget is not really an issue :p
 
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