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Worth upgrading from 920 to 980x?

somewhatdamaged

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I am spending an increasing amount of time encoding Blu Ray disks using BD Rebuilder and they are taking up to 4 hours per movie on my current i7

I am considering upgrading to the 980x and wondered if it would make a worthwhile upgrade for this purpose?

Thanks
 
Aint got a scooby, but just wanted to say damn thats a long time !!!
Considered a SSD, that should help i reckon ?
 
An SSD wouldn't help at all really.

The 980x performs scarily well, especially if you overclock it. At £100 less, you could get the 970, although apparently it doesn't clock quite as well as the 980x.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i7-980x-review/14

If you have £800 and think you can justify it, then I'd say go for it. The 980x wipes the floor with everything else.
 
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Yeah i don't think encoding from an SSD would make any difference (i have one for my OS anyway) as i am encoding using 3 x 1TB Spinpoints in RAID0, that should be plenty quick enough

I am obviously not too keen to spend £700 on a cpu but if i can sell my 920 that will take some of the sting off. If i could hit hit 4ghz on the 970 i would be tempted
 
Should hit 4GHz without any issues on the 970. :) They're 32nm chips so they clock on about the same voltage as the 920/930s despite the extra cores.
 
somewhatdamaged said:
I am spending an increasing amount of time encoding Blu Ray disks using BD Rebuilder and they are taking up to 4 hours per movie on my current i7

I am considering upgrading to the 980x and wondered if it would make a worthwhile upgrade for this purpose?

Thanks
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To what file type?
 
Redmint said:
Should hit 4GHz without any issues on the 970. :) They're 32nm chips so they clock on about the same voltage as the 920/930s despite the extra cores.
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are you sure of this ? cos from my own experience i found i7 920 d0 less voltage than the i7 980x as my 4ghz is only 1.275vcore on i7 920 but 1.345vcore on the i7 980x (both voltages set on the bios) But the temperature is lots less than the i7 920 do thought!
 
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JonJ678 said:
Dropping from 45nm to 32nm while increasing the voltage applied doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.
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Yep, quick way to kill a cpu, bit like 45nm s775 cpus. vcore wasnt the killer, high pll or high vtt done the damage. Btw, welcome back again jon mate.:)
 
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Just get the 980X run it at the stock 3.6 Ghz with the on the fly overclock, it eats any media encoding for breakfast ;) & still has CPU cycles to spare for other task at the same time :eek: In 2 years time it will still be wating for the software to catch up.
 
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