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which cpu should i get ? building from scratch

garyfl

garyfl

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ive got a mobile 2760qm sandybridge and im wanting tobuild my own pc tower from scratch, only problem is, ive had a lot of hassle deciding whats best.

i watch bluray, game heavily, produce very very complex music with loads of tracks, i use photoshop, il also be getting a second screenand will be extending my desktop so a bluray is playing on the plasma while i work on the other screen. so im guessing ill need some fuel, but its the cost atm, 499 for a sandy e seems extortionate and i hear a 3820 is coming out circa under 300£ also head ivy will be out april.

im all so confused about whether pci 3 is worth it if a 7970 seems to work well on pci 2, or the benefits of quad ram, justseems im payingthrough nose for sandy e. it all justseems like e peen and you pay a premium to have what appears to be the best but has no real world benefit. so im now torn between sandy and sandy e. i came from a x58 to this laptop so x58 is out of the question.

ill bestarting from scratch so im not constricted to anything ill be getting new board ram, new everything.

so

sandy bridge 2600k 2700k
sandy bridge e 3820k /3930k
ivybridge

which one ;s

also, idlike a dark black/red board, im not making the same mistake of a haf x with red led fans and a x58 ud7 blue board haha
 
Depends how much you care about having the absolute best, and paying for it. For gaming, an i5 is plenty so even an i7 2600K or similar is overkill for that. It will help with music and photoshop I imagine. If you game a lot of the time, an i7 2600/2700K is probably the way to go if it were me
 
how would extra pci lanes or quad ram benefit me ? highest ill ever go is sli at apush, and ill be looking at 16gb ram for now as i never shitdown my pc and even on this laptop with 8gb ive chugged it down to 7.5gb usage
 
Benchmark:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=443

You can see in heavily threaded applications it can make a difference, whether that's worth the money is really for you to decide.

When will you be building? If you can/want to wait then ivybridge might be worth waiting for? That being said, an i7 now will still be amazing when ivybridge is here :p


garyfl said:
how would extra pci lanes or quad ram benefit me ? highest ill ever go is sli at apush, and ill be looking at 16gb ram for now as i never shitdown my pc and even on this laptop with 8gb ive chugged it down to 7.5gb usage
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Will you want more than 16GB eventually then!? If so, Z68 boards will only support that with 8GB RAM sticks => very expensive atm. Whereas some of the SB-E boards have 8 slots :)

PCIe lands probably isn't a bit concern if you'll only go SLI. Most people run at 8x/8x and still get great performance?
 
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I think the next-gen of cards will just about saturate PCI-E 2.0 x16 so it's worthwhile to have PCI-E 3.0 as an option. Especially considering that in dual GPU mode 1155 is restricted to PCI-E 2.0 x8/x8 which will bottleneck the next gen cards for sure as the previous gen just about saturated x8/x8 already. If I were you I'd hold off till march and build an ivybridge system.
 
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