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Ivy or complete change to skt 2011?

I'm looking to upgrade from my Core 2 Duo rig in the next few months and I'm asking myself the same question. Do I go IB/Z77 or S2011. I don't have time for a lot of gaming, in fact my 3 year old spends more time on Cbeebies but I want to be able to run a few VMs for playing around with ideas for work.
Do both options support 8GB Dimms? If so then having 8 Dimms slots on an X79 board makes it very tempting. Yes I really would use 64GB RAM :)
 
bluebox said:
I'm looking to upgrade from my Core 2 Duo rig in the next few months and I'm asking myself the same question. Do I go IB/Z77 or S2011. I don't have time for a lot of gaming, in fact my 3 year old spends more time on Cbeebies but I want to be able to run a few VMs for playing around with ideas for work.
Do both options support 8GB Dimms? If so then having 8 Dimms slots on an X79 board makes it very tempting. Yes I really would use 64GB RAM :)
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Only X79 supports 8 DIMMs at the moment for a single socket desktop platform.
 
paradigm said:
Well, the image says 5000.00MHz, and the Info says 125x40 = do the maths ;)
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You fail to appreciate that it's been rounded up.

The information on the left of the image shows 4999.95MHz using a more precise calculation.

Obviously there's a bit of rounding up going on when it states 125MHz.

Even the CPU-Z Forum Banner doesn't show it validated at 5GHz.



Sure you have a 5GHz processor, as long as the speed is rounded up a little :p
 
Surveyor said:
You fail to appreciate that it's been rounded up.

The information on the left of the image shows 4999.95MHz using a more precise calculation.

Obviously there's a bit of rounding up going on when it states 125MHz.

Even the CPU-Z Forum Banner doesn't show it validated at 5GHz.



Sure you have a 5GHz processor, as long as the speed is rounded up a little :p
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Nope, don't care what validation says, in windows CPUz reports (125.25 x 40) 5008MHz, Asus TurboV reports the same, and RealTemp reports the same. It'll go higher anyway, I just wanted a validation for bang on 5GHz.

The rated FSB was indeed clocked at 4995.5, but the CPU wasn't.
 
This thread reminded me of something I was wondering the other day. Obviously I don't know the exact numbers on this but it seems like 1155 is a lot more popular than socket 2011. In the previous generation however it seemed as though 1366 was a lot more popular than 1156 for gamers/overclockers.

Now it might simply be down to the order in which things were released (particularly with the i7 3820 coming out quite late and being the only affordable 2011 option). However it seems like LGA2011 really didn't get the same attention as 1366, but that might just be my perception.
 
Redmint said:
This thread reminded me of something I was wondering the other day. Obviously I don't know the exact numbers on this but it seems like 1155 is a lot more popular than socket 2011. In the previous generation however it seemed as though 1366 was a lot more popular than 1156 for gamers/overclockers.

Now it might simply be down to the order in which things were released (particularly with the i7 3820 coming out quite late and being the only affordable 2011 option). However it seems like LGA2011 really didn't get the same attention as 1366, but that might just be my perception.
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Sounds a fair assessment. Have been deliberating whether to get the X79 Sabertooth or the newer Z77 sibling. I almost decided on the X79 but i want the IB-E CPU for it, though as said before that wont be out for some time very much close to the release of Haswell. Dont think that's the best option for me now i'll probably just get the Z77 Sabertooth with a decent Ivybridge chip. It's hard work playing BF3 with a E6600 :D
 
Redmint said:
This thread reminded me of something I was wondering the other day. Obviously I don't know the exact numbers on this but it seems like 1155 is a lot more popular than socket 2011. In the previous generation however it seemed as though 1366 was a lot more popular than 1156 for gamers/overclockers.

Now it might simply be down to the order in which things were released (particularly with the i7 3820 coming out quite late and being the only affordable 2011 option). However it seems like LGA2011 really didn't get the same attention as 1366, but that might just be my perception.
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Actually you've over looked a rather important fact, which directly impacted the popularity of 1366 over 1156. When 1156 was released, Intel very clearly stated it had a limited life span of about 12 months due to 1155 being in the pipeline, they also stated that 1366 would continue to be supported with the release of new chips for atleast 2 - 3 years.

So, when ever any one popped up on the forums asking what was best, 1366 or 1156, they where allways steered towards 1366 as 1156 was a dead duck about to get the chop.
 
I kept up with ivy thinking i would go that route but the rumours of poor overclocking and not that much more performance pushed me to 2011 and i am just waiting for my 3930k to turn up which i got for £400 c2 stepping uk retail. Would have loved to got everything from OcUK but saving £70ish on just the cpu meant not :(. I think as time goes by i will get better value out of the 3930 and it will definately help me with my encoding (currently planning on recoding entire media player contents about 2TB :)).
 
Have gone with 3820 and Gigabyte UD3 (because it had the perfect spacing for my cards) and with 10% discount was down to £210 and £135 respectively, and once I sell my stuff, will probably cost me less than just getting 3770K.

Decided may as well get some 16GB Samsung Green ram.

Just couldn't bring myself to pay £400 for 3930K right now.

Only aiming for about 4.5Ghz, and at least it will give me an upgrade path in the future, even if it is only one day picking up a cheap 3930K. But hopefully ivy-e will deliver.
 
VoG said:
Actually you've over looked a rather important fact, which directly impacted the popularity of 1366 over 1156. When 1156 was released, Intel very clearly stated it had a limited life span of about 12 months due to 1155 being in the pipeline, they also stated that 1366 would continue to be supported with the release of new chips for atleast 2 - 3 years.

So, when ever any one popped up on the forums asking what was best, 1366 or 1156, they where allways steered towards 1366 as 1156 was a dead duck about to get the chop.
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Ah yes good point, although pretty much related to the order in which they were released as I thought as 1156 came along after 1366 I believe?

Although 1366 chips were released for quite a while nothing was really much of an upgrade from the D0 920 for overclockers other than the hex core chips which never really went below £400 retail value.
 
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