sandybridge E worth it?

[The Slayer_UK]

ok so i wrote this in another thread but wondered what other people thought

quite a few people think sandybridge E is a waste of money well my way of thinking is diffrent for a gaming rig

i7 3930K curently on OCUK for £515 but they will come back down around £470ish soon

vs

i7 2600K £254


but then motherboard prices arent that bad for x79 either

cheapest x79 motherboard

Gigabyte x79 £170


and if your building a good gaming rig 2bh i would spend roughly around £200 on a mobo anyway

ram ok its a bit more expensive again but you can pick up 16GB of ram for £71

G.skil 16Gb

so for the cpu your paying an extra £216 (asuming 3930k comes down to £470 which ive seen it at)

motherboard you might pay an extra 60-£70 (asuming for a z58 you go for more or less the cheapest board)

and ram you might pay an extra £30

so you are paying an extra of £316 and the benefit of that is you allready have PCI 3 to take advantage of the next gen gfx cards you have the extra two cores ok nothing needs it now but if you keep if for a 5 years then software may have caught up plus you have quad channel ram

and if your like me and you keep your gaming rig for about 5 years then this will last that long your not constantly upgrading all the time

to me its worth it when you think of it like this what do you think?

 

[The Slayer_UK]

but im not thinking of just wanting the raw power im thinking of when in 3 years time games are more demanding ive still got the grunt from the cpu and i only upgrade every 5 years the only thing i upgrade more often is the graphics card.

and IMO if im buying a sandy bridge then im upgrading to Ivybridge im spending more money i jnow i could sell the sandybridge on and get some money back but say i bought the 2600k for £254 now and replace it with Ivy Bridge when it comes out (for argument sake we will say the Ivy bridge is £254 as well) i sell my sandybridge for say £150 (not sure if thats an acurate price as ive never sold on a cpu before) then im needing an extra £100 for the Ivybridge so in total ive spent

2600k = £254

sell that for = £150

than with the 150 i get back from selling the sandybridge i put another 100 to it to buy

IvyBridge = £254

i would rather pay £450 for sandybridge E now and make it last 5 years that way im getting my moneys worth out of it

 

[The Slayer_UK]

yes i get what you are saying and for the most part agree but i just dont like to bring myself to buy somthing only to upgrade it a year or 2 later lol i prefer to spend a decent amount and make it last.

my current gaming rig has lasted me 4years i think a qx9650 they wernt cheap when they were brand new out and i could still use it for another year if i wanted to but sinse ive got abit of cash i thought i might as well upgrade this year as in the next year or two i want to move out of parents house lol and i just find if i upgrade every 5 years or so then you dont actually spend that much money

 

[The Slayer_UK]

yes i do see all your of points are valid ill still be going sandybridge E but its nice to know what others think and get other peoples perspective on things hence why i made this thread. i like to see things from other peoples point of view even if i dont agree lol

 

[The Slayer_UK]

Fair enough. You will have a beast of a computer, for sure. Show us some build pictures

I will and a few benchmarks

 

[The Slayer_UK]

I have an i7 930 on the older 1366 socket but since it is overclocked to 4Ghz there is no point at all in upgrading and your situation seems similar. The i5 SB chip is quite simply a beast it really is, unless you make extensive use of the hyper-threading in the i7 chips then it is rather pointless imho. You overclock the i5 to 4.5GHz and the machine will last you 5 years at least.

Stoner81.

if your refering to me i dont have a i5 im currently running a qx9650 (775 socket) so what ever now ive got to upgrade to new mobo lol