Should I Upgrade or Wait?

[Kuuwahi]

Hello,

So I already have a pretty decent build, but i'm going to take it further and upgrade.

As I'm going to be Open Loop water cooling I want to have my upgrade pretty much set before hand.

I am currently running an i7 3930k with an Asus P9x79 Motherboard.

I can overclock my CPU however it has a tendency to crash with a memory error (I think its one of the cores).

Would upgrading from my i7 3930k to a i7 6700k be a noticeable difference ?

Or should I wait (and I don't mind waiting as my CPU isn't exactly incompetent) for Cannonlake.

Cheers

 

[Cromulent]

I certainly wouldn't go from a 6 core CPU to a 4 core CPU. Sounds like a massive downgrade. Why not wait until Broadwell-E is released at some point in the first half of the year?

And if you can't wait what about a Haswell-E CPU? That would be better than a 6700k to upgrade to. At least you would keep all 6 of your cores (or you could go for the high end model and get an 8 core CPU which would be a nice upgrade).

 

[Kuuwahi]

I was thinking the same in regards to downgrading from a 6 core to a 4 core, but howmuch of a difference in performance is there?

I also don't think in CPU performance there is much point in upgrading to x99 5930k unless I go 5960k which is very costly.

I do not mind waiting by any means as my CPU is more than potent. I just want a new Mobo and DDR4 to which 2011 is now discontinued the only option I have is to upgrade.

PC is used for Gaming so 4 cores for gaming.

 

[teenwolf]

wait.

i7 3930k is still awesome

 

[Scurburg]

Would upgrading from my i7 3930k to a i7 6700k be a noticeable difference ?

The logical upgrade would be a x99/5820k. Forget the 4 core gamer chips if you are doing anything else like development and encoding etc. Would just be a downgrade IMO.

 

[Kuuwahi]

The logical upgrade would be a x99/5820k. Forget the 4 core gamer chips if you are doing anything else like development and encoding etc. Would just be a downgrade IMO.

Oh yeah in terms of development (To which is my primary usage) the 6 Cores is much better. That's why I'm sticking with 6 cores or more.

But upgrading from the 3930k to the 5820k will not really be much of a performance upgrade aside of the DDR4 at which 32GB I need.

And at the cost of around the £1000-£1500 mark for the 5820k upgrade for minimal upgrade is not worth it.

 

[Gze]

Don't bother, i7 3930k is a brilliant CPU.

 

[Kuuwahi]

Guess I should wait for the next line of 6 cores then on the 10/14 nm die.

The misses will have to wait until she gets my old rig haha.

 

[kylew_is_back]

it is not worth it, not to mention that you will get worst performance when all 12 threads are in use, although you will get better performance on applications that use 1-4 cores.

 

[Kuuwahi]

I have decided I will wait until Cannonlake shows itself.

 

[Digital X]

Even on my CPU I have had the urge to upgrade, but staying put. Or I'll go "oh shoot, all that money for this.." as I mainly game, that is.

 

[Kuuwahi]

Yeah, I'm not in the need of an urgent CPU upgrade it was purely for a new Mobo and the DDR4 (which will make a huge impact). All my funds are split into specific parts IE Case, GPU, CPU, WaterCooling etc.

Firstly a case, then a GPU but I'm waiting for Pascal until I make a decision.