Socket 2011 vs socket 1150 help?

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Still on a core 2 quad set up had it for 4/5 years now, and after playing tomb raider for 30 mins lead to serious heat and me hearing my graphics card fan for the 1st time so i think its time to upgrade.

Only thing I'm keeping from my current build is my MSI R6970 lightning GPU, now i have decided on all the other components as listed below.

BenQ XL2420T rev2.0 24" TRUE 144Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red /w Flicker FREE Technology £319.99

Seasonic X-Series 1050w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £179.99

x2 Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £347.96

Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/240G) £167.99

Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Windowed Midi Tower Case - Black £135.95

Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card £134.99

Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail £85.99

BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £61.99

x2 Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 Fan - 140mm £43.96

BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Fan - all black £13.99

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £6.59

Now my big question do i go 4770k with a Asus Sabertooth mobo or 3820 with Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79?

My main purpose is playing games along with music production, little bit of video editing, plus i want to be able to run Virtual Machines to test things for work.

Plus any other changes to build you could recommend would be appreciated, my main aim is to have a silent but cool build as i will be using it for long period and fan noise gets on my nerves.

thanks in advance
 
PSU is slightly overkill, a 750w ~ would be fine for dual GPU'S.

Minor changes :

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle £358.99
1 x BenQ XL2420T rev2.0 24" TRUE 144Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red /w Flicker FREE Technology £319.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £164.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £148.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Windowed Midi Tower Case - Black £135.95
1 x Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card £134.99
1 x Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail £85.99
1 x XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £71.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £39.95
Total : £1,605.92 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 
RJC said:
PSU is slightly overkill, a 750w ~ would be fine for dual GPU'S.

Minor changes :

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle £358.99
1 x BenQ XL2420T rev2.0 24" TRUE 144Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red /w Flicker FREE Technology £319.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £164.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £148.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Windowed Midi Tower Case - Black £135.95
1 x Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card £134.99
1 x Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail £85.99
1 x XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £71.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £39.95
Total : £1,605.92 (includes shipping : £20.10).

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I would change the mobo out for a sabertooth and the cpu cooler, so you think theat would be good enough to run a sever 2008 windows 8 and windows 7 on vmware all at the same time?

plus is there going to be an upgrade path for the next gen intel cpus on that socket?
 
The 4770k should handle that no problem, its a little faster in most benchmarks than the 3820:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/836?vs=523


CPU cooling, if you don't fancy the Corsair watercooler then have a look at the others below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-RT&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2666

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-PT&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2348

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-037-AL&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2337

The Gigabyte board gets good reviews and offers UK RMA service if ever needed.

Upgrade future cant really say, there was a Intel roadmap in the CPU section.
 
RJC said:
The 4770k should handle that no problem, its a little faster in most benchmarks than the 3820:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/836?vs=523

Upgrade future cant really say, there was a Intel roadmap in the CPU section.
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i checked out Anandtech aswell the only thing that bothers me with going in with z87 is that if the cpu cant handle it or things take too long to complete im stuck where as if i go 2011 i can upgrade to a 6 core ivybridge-e when it comes out.

but if your sure it will be enough i will prob save myself a bit of money and go z87
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £164.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (PV38G240C0K) £65.99 (£131.98)
Total : £578.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).




YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £259.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (PV38G240C0K) £65.99 (£131.98)
Total : £573.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Just a quick difference in prices between the two socket types, I thought the 3820 was cheaper than that, also with socket 2011 you can upgrade to Ivybridge E!!

Hmm second thought now!! :D
 
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lol yea on second thoughts I'll go socket 2011 plus an asus mobo (ASUS AI Suite looks very promising) thanks for helping me think this through
 
xcvtop said:
lol yea on second thoughts I'll go socket 2011 plus an asus mobo (ASUS AI Suite looks very promising) thanks for helping me think this through
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The Gigabyte is a solid board with UK warranty, although ASUS are very good, I'd stick with Gigabyte, especially if you're just changing for some software bundled! :)
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
The Gigabyte is a solid board with UK warranty, although ASUS are very good, I'd stick with Gigabyte, especially if you're just changing for some software bundled! :)
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Fan xpert is what i will be mostly using on the Asus AI suite plus of all the motherboards i have had over the years ASUS have given me the less trouble with MSI & Gigabyte coming a close second but i have had problems with those boards.

So if you can recommend something that does the same thing as Fan Xpert ill consider MSI or Gigabyte.
 
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