Intel X79-E or wait for Ivy Bridge?

[Stonedofmoo]

I'm looking to build a new pc in the next 9 months and I'm weighing up a X79-E build or waiting a little longer for P/H78 & Ivy Bridge

I'm kind of curious about the X79-E though, reading about I don't really see the point. It has massive bandwidth and a quad channel memory controller, but yet it doesn't support technologies like USB3 or PCI-E 3.0. What's the point in launching a new chipset that is already out of date on paper?

Do you think it's better to avoid this and go for the more mainstream Ivy Bridge? I remember reading an article comparing Sandy Bridge to i7/X58 setups and despite only having a dual channel memory controller SB was quicker...

 

[bhavv]

Based on how X58 vs P55 was for gaming, I strongly doubt that the X79 will be any better for video games than a Z68 + Ivy Bridge will be.

X79 will be strictly server / workstation end stuff.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm looking to build a new pc in the next 9 months and I'm weighing up a X79-E build or waiting a little longer for P/H78 & Ivy Bridge

I'm kind of curious about the X79-E though, reading about I don't really see the point. It has massive bandwidth and a quad channel memory controller, but yet it doesn't support technologies like USB3 or PCI-E 3.0. What's the point in launching a new chipset that is already out of date on paper?

Do you think it's better to avoid this and go for the more mainstream Ivy Bridge? I remember reading an article comparing Sandy Bridge to i7/X58 setups and despite only having a dual channel memory controller SB was quicker...

What are the main uses of the computer?? If you can get a decent price for your current parts then perhaps getting a Sandy Bridge based system might make sense.

However,if you can wait until next year you will be able to choose from Ivy Bridge,Sandy Bridge E,Bulldozer and probably reduced price Sandy Bridge processors.

Based on how X58 vs P55 was for gaming, I strongly doubt that the X79 will be any better for video games than a Z68 + Ivy Bridge will be.

X79 will be strictly server / workstation end stuff.

Not everyone just games with their PC though so trying to dismiss Sandy Bridge E ATM is pointless. We don't even know how much of an IPC improvement it will be over Sandy Bridge or the pricing of the entry level CPUs.

 

[bhavv]

TBH if he is currently using a P45 Neo2, then Ivy Bridge would be a great enough upgrade.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Aye that's it really. My current rig plays any game without issue, but then I only have a 22" TFT at 1680x1050 res. My new rig will defo have one of those 27" Dells with the 2650x1440 res so I'll be needing something powerful to make the best of it.

But then ultimately Sandy Bridge chips appears to overclock to over 4Ghz with ease so theres nothing to suggest that Ivy Bridge won't do the same.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Aye that's it really. My current rig plays any game without issue, but then I only have a 22" TFT at 1680x1050 res. My new rig will defo have one of those 27" Dells with the 2650x1440 res so I'll be needing something powerful to make the best of it.

But then ultimately Sandy Bridge chips appears to overclock to over 4Ghz with ease so theres nothing to suggest that Ivy Bridge won't do the same.

Like I mentioned earlier it might be worth selling your current bits and getting a Core i5 2500K. Q9550 CPUs are selling for between £90 to £140 on the famous auction website.

 

[Broken Hope]

We don't even know how much of an IPC improvement it will be over Sandy Bridge or the pricing of the entry level CPUs.

Where has it been stated that Sandy Bridge E will have any IPC improvement over current Sandy Bridge? I thought the whole point of Sandy Bridge E is that it will run on the X79 chipset and all also support dual CPU boards. Clock for clock I can see them being the same, in the same way that socket 1156 i7's and 1366 i7's were pretty much identical at the same clock speed.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Where has it been stated that Sandy Bridge E will have any IPC improvement over current Sandy Bridge? I thought the whole point of Sandy Bridge E is that it will run on the X79 chipset and all also support dual CPU boards. Clock for clock I can see them being the same, in the same way that socket 1156 i7's and 1366 i7's were pretty much identical at the same clock speed.

The Sandy Bridge E quad cores supposedly will have 25% more L3 cache per core and greater memory bandwidth too. Both the socket 1366 and socket 1155 Core i7 CPUs had the same amount of L3 cache. However,with Turbo switched off the socket 1366 Core i7 CPUs have slightly higher IPC in multi-threaded applications. The socket 1156 Core i7 CPUs had more refined Turbo which is why they were so close together.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Like I mentioned earlier it might be worth selling your current bits and getting a Core i5 2500K. Q9550 CPUs are selling for between £90 to £140 on the famous auction website.

That's good to know, however I won't have the money saved up plus I have my heart set on a Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge-E