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Just inherited a 3820

opstrat

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My brother emailed me who is now working in the states to go ahead and dismantle his old machine as it doesn't look like he will be back for a couple of years,

he has asked me to give most of the parts (hdd, mobo) to his mate as he has asked for them but my brother said i can have the chip and do what i want with it.

so the question is change from an i5 2500k to this 3820.

ive looked at benches over at anandtech but im looking for real world opinions on the subject. it is mostly gaming and the odd youtube recording/editing that i do.

cheers
 
I like it, but the price of the mobo ain't cheap. In terms of encoding - it's good, gaming it's good, overclocking - it's good, Digital Audio Workstation software - good there too. I imagine for the hyperthreaded stuff you'll see improvements - is it worth the price of a x79 mobo?
 
That is the bottom line, a new mobo. i could sell of the 2500k and the mobo (Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H) which would be a good chunk towards an x79 board
 
Go for it, the hyperthreading on the 3820 gives you a degree of future proofing - games like BF3 are becoming ever more demanding of the CPU.
 
In reality will make very little difference in games. Like most prob next to none if your 2500K is clocked.

However its fun to get new stuff so id prob go for it if it was me.
 
For the money you'd get for your bits you have now, you wouldn't need to pay that much to get a really good x79 board.

I'd definitely go for it.
 
opstrat said:
ive looked at benches over at anandtech but im looking for real world opinions on the subject. it is mostly gaming and the odd youtube recording/editing that i do.
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I would sell it, then when Haswell launches I would sell the Z77/2500K too and then buy an i5 4670K and LGA1150 board. Of course you lose the chance to upgrade to IB-E but unless you develop a strong need for a hex/oct core between now and then it would be un-needed anyway, besides Haswell isn't the only architecture planned for LGA1150 is it?

The 3820 is as much as makes no difference the same power as a 2500K clock for clock, the only advantage is HT and X79 neither of which it sounds like you need right now, the 4670K will be a two generation jump over the 2500K and the 3820 so its per core performance will be faster clock for clock, plus you always have the option to go i7 4770K at a later date.
 
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ubersonic said:
I would sell it, then when Haswell launches I would sell the Z77/2500K too and then buy an i5 4670K and LGA1150 board. Of course you lose the chance to upgrade to IB-E but unless you develop a strong need for a hex/oct core between now and then it would be un-needed anyway, besides Haswell isn't the only architecture planned for LGA1150 is it?

The 3820 is as much as makes no difference the same power as a 2500K clock for clock, the only advantage is HT and X79 neither of which it sounds like you need right now, the 4670K will be a two generation jump over the 2500K and the 3820 so its per core performance will be faster clock for clock, plus you always have the option to go i7 4770K at a later date.
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If he's doing 1080p encoding - will an 3930k or ib-e not wipe the floor with haswell?

3820 not better than a 2500k for the same needs, too?
 
smelly_legend said:
If he's doing 1080p encoding - will an 3930k or ib-e not wipe the floor with haswell?

3820 not better than a 2500k for the same needs, too?
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IF he was doing that then yeah a hex core HT would beat a 4 core Haswell i5 even though its slower per core and the HT of the 3820 would give it an advantage over the 2500K (assuming the video editing software can use all the logical core). However he said he makes the occasional youtube video so from that I guessed he wasn't exactly making his own sequal to Avatar /shrug.
 
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