Socket 1155 or 2011 ??

[chad116]

What are the advantages/disadvantages over the pair

Looking at getting a new system and going for either the i7 3820 or i7 2700

Which do i go for ?

 

[T345]

get ivybridge not sandy bridge, what are you using it for?

 

[chad116]

So would the i7 3770 (ivybridge) be better than both the above ?

Will be used for photo/video editiing, CAD and the odd gaming

 

[T345]

i7 3820 will be better for you
A: You can upgrade to a hexacore later
B: It supports more RAM, essential for video and photo and CAD, etc

 

[pgi947]

I'd go 3820 as well, at least gives you an upgrade path in the future.

 

[wkingsnorth]

i7 3820 will be better for you
A: You can upgrade to a hexacore later
B: It supports more RAM, essential for video and photo and CAD, etc

I'd go 3820 as well, at least gives you an upgrade path in the future.

 

[IvanDobskey]

Just get an 1155 IB chip unless you specifically need a hex core chip.

 

[T345]

He uses CAD etc

 

[chad116]

So i'm guessing there will be no upgrade path for socket 1155 ?

 

[pgi947]

Upgrade path for 1155 has been and gone, started with sandy 25/600k and ended with ivy 375/70k.

May see the odd new ivy chip as we did with the sandy 2550k & 2700k but it won't hold any improvement over the older chips of its generation.

 

[Muel]

I'd go for a 3820, as I believe the 2011 socket has more life left than the 1155. Pretty sure the 1155 has gone as far as it will go now, and that Haswell will be bringing a replacement, whereas Ivy Bridge-E is going to be on 2011 when it comes out.

I think anyway, this is all from memory!

 

[Kaapstad]

Will be used for photo/video editiing, CAD and the odd gaming

X79 no contest.
Up to 6 cores
Upgrade path to ivy bridge extreme
overclocks better than normal ivy bridge
More memory to work with

 

[Nightglow]

2011 would be my choice, more upgrade potential,far superior to 1155.

With some of the high end X79 boards your looking at around 64gb of memory.

 

[Orcvader]

For your sort of work, the more cores the better, so 2011 is the way to go. What sort of budget do you have in mind?

 

[chad116]

Ok, thanks for your help guys

 

[Dirtyganker]

I've recently made a change from Sandybridge Core i7-2700K to Sandybridge-E with a Core i7 3930K purely because of more available PCI-E lanes, more cores and potential future 22nm shrinks, although the more I read the less likely these are to materialise. Otherwise the platform meets my requirements better than Ivybridge does, plus I'm not liking the kind of temps that folk are getting at 4.7Hgz and above (if indeed it's possible to go above that - although some will claim that they can and do, but for the masses I doubt it very much).

I can make use of the extra cores and the extra memory in due course, so it was an obvious choice for me.

I do however have a 3770k but it's for a completely different application and I'm not overclocking it at all and is mostly used for jobs typically using three or four threads.

It's horses for courses, but I'd say that for your requirement something on socket 2011 seems to make more sense.

 

[chad116]

Thanks for the info