Much point upgrading?

[MeatLoaf]

Currently running a 6 core Xeon L5639 cpu on an X58 board. Clocked it nice to 3.4Ghz. Dosent really struggle with much and cant really tell any difference from the 3770K at 4.4Ghz system that I had to sell at Xmas.

However, due to a new company taking over our place of work and changing there pay patterns I will be getting double paid at end of this month so should be able to fund mobo/cpu upgrade. Id probably be looking at an i7 3820 on an X79 board.

 

[Doomedspeed]

What are your uses for the rig?

Do you have a use for the X79 platform? As the 3820/4820 is a bit weaker than the 4770k. It'll come out a bit cheap due to motherboard choices.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Games really but haven't had any recent games, last one I got was Ghosts. Was meaning to get BF4 at some point which I thought may benefit from my current CPU. Another option I was considering was SLI but I think that may be overkill too at the moment

 

[Doomedspeed]

Your current CPU should be fine with BF4 though core power is pretty important, So really the 4770k (while having less cores) could/will perform better.

I dont see much reason to go X79 over Z97. You can get a decent SLI Z97 motherboard for not much more than £100.

 

[Stuen4y]

Currently running a 6 core Xeon L5639 cpu on an X58 board. Clocked it nice to 3.4Ghz. Dosent really struggle with much and cant really tell any difference from the 3770K at 4.4Ghz system that I had to sell at Xmas.

However, due to a new company taking over our place of work and changing there pay patterns I will be getting double paid at end of this month so should be able to fund mobo/cpu upgrade. Id probably be looking at an i7 3820 on an X79 board.

4 core processor on LGA 2011 is the least useful thing - you are paying the premium for the quad channel motherboard and are getting one generation older i7 processor that clocks similarly but costs more.

It really depends what you are planning to use it for though. If it is solely on games I would not recommend updating the cpu/mobo but the graphics itself, will give you a much bigger boost.

 

[deFiniLoGy]

Agree on above.

Just go for Z97 platforms if you are gaming mainly.

You can go for more decent board like M7F/E if you want to scale SLI better while OC better

 

[dvs8]

If you have such an excess of cash just wait until Autumn and buy X99 + DDR4 platform

 

[Cromulent]

If you have such an excess of cash just wait until Autumn and buy X99 + DDR4 platform

Do this .

There is no point in buying an X79 system now when X99 is so near to be being released. Haswell-E should be a nice upgrade over what you currently have and it might (I'm not certain on this) come with 8 cores which would also help with modern highly multi-threaded games that use more cores.

I wouldn't bother with Z97. The performance increase will be marginal. An X99 would be a much better bet and hopefully it will overclock nicely as well.