would it be a foolish idea to even consider upgrading from the 980x to the I7 2600k?

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Afterall, I could easily sell my 980x for a good price. But would the performance increase be worth it? I am having a hell of a time with my 980x, its extremely quick, but I know the sandybridges are MUCH faster processors and I am told are even easier to overclock? Currently I have mine operating at around 4.14ghz on stock settings, could easily go higher if I figured out how to correctly change voltages and such.

I dunno if its a silly question or not, I look at the price differences and think "lol, what a dumb thing to ask" but then I look at bench marks and I am not so sure, as its not just a little bit faster, its quite a lot faster : /

Thoughts? Maybe wait till the an even higher end sandy bridge comes out?
 
go for it, cheaper chip, and faster and for selling your 980X you should in theory afford a nice new i7 and mobo if you look carefully enough
 
who told you the I7 2600K is much faster than your 980X ? depending on what you are doing your 980X can really put the hurt on the 2600K

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=142

are you going to be using it for anything that your 980X is strong at ? if not then it may be a good idea to change and you'd probably have some money left after selling your stuff and upgrading.
 
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Wow I just looked at the comparison charts from the link above! I never knew my 2600k was in same league as such an expensive CPU like the 980x, my 2600k clocks itself upto 4.5ghz when turbo mode kicks in! So I bet that would blow the 980x out the water on gaming and multimedia encoding. Think your 980x will be better on cad work and multi threading apps to use all 12 of your threads , 2600k only has 8 but ivy bridge is out later in the year with 8cores 16 threads. I'd sell 980x while it's still worth something!
 
If I could sell the 980X for a good price I'd sell it. But not if I had to throw more money in to get a 2600k. The speed will be mostly comparable. Also get a CPU liquid cooling block and OC the 2600K to beyond 5 Ghz
 
To be honest i wouldn't sell because its a great cpu and i wouldn't even upgrade to Ivy brigde as your cpu will still be very capable .
 
People think the 2600k is faster than 980x because they are. The 980x may have 2 more cores but with 99% of software not being able to take advantage of them, then you might aswell just have a faster clock speed. Look at the link above for benchmarks
 
JasonKnights said:
People think the 2600k is faster than 980x because they are. The 980x may have 2 more cores but with 99% of software not being able to take advantage of them, then you might aswell just have a faster clock speed. Look at the link above for benchmarks
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No, not 99%. It depends what you use the PC for, not everybody buys a rig to play games all day, you know. A 980x can steamroll a 2600k in various things.
 
ATIorNvidia said:
No, not 99%. It depends what you use the PC for, not everybody buys a rig to play games all day, you know. A 980x can steamroll a 2600k in various things.
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examples and links please, because I have yet to see a 980x 'steamroll' a 2600k. For everyday general use the 980x gets owned considering it's spec against the 2600k and cost, don't even look at overclocked comparisons either, it only gets worse for the 980x.

there are circumstances where the 6-core is faster, but there are not many.

It is also a pretty fair statement to say the majority of software today cannot use full 6 cores either, don't know if it's 99%, but I bet it's not far off when you think about the amount of software out there today.
 
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Liquid said:
examples and links please, because I have yet to see a 980x 'steamroll' a 2600k. For everyday general use the 980x gets owned considering it's spec against the 2600k and cost, don't even look at overclocked comparisons either, it only gets worse for the 980x.

there are circumstances where the 6-core is faster, but there are not many.

It is also a pretty fair statement to say the majority of software today cannot use full 6 cores either, don't know if it's 99%, but I bet it's not far off when you think about the amount of software out there today.
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Go and search for the links yourself. I'm not going through the trouble of finding links to prove somebody wrong that lacks basic common sense. With both CPU's at 100%, the 980x is better. It doesn't matter if most applications don't use six cores and it doesn't matter if the 980x is at an absurd price... it's still faster when comparing both CPU's at their maximum... therefore it is a better CPU. The 2600k is better value. Don't get it mixed up.

I also doubt many people would buy a 970/980x if it wasn't for a certain purpose where six cores are used.
 
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I'm not going through the trouble of finding links.
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That's a shame because then you could have looked yourself:rolleyes:

No-one is denying the 980x is quicker in 'heavily threaded program/bench' due to it's six cores.

Any other circumstance and the 2600k is the winner, pretty much every review of sandybridge out there saying that.

Single threaded performance is still extremely relevant today, and that's an area important to us all and it's also where the 2600k excels.

So I will bear in mind about the 980x for when I get a render farm put in the shed lol, until that time i'm happy with my faster than 980x overclocked 2600k:D

It is however not worth changing from a 980x from a performance point of view. New build is a different matter.
 
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If you are happy with your current CPU and motherboard performance, I would be I can not see how it could underperform on any software, personally I would avoid the Sandybridge experiment for another six months at least.
 
Liquid said:
That's a shame because then you could have looked yourself:rolleyes:

No-one is denying the 980x is quicker in 'heavily threaded program/bench' due to it's six cores.

Any other circumstance and the 2600k is the winner, pretty much every review of sandybridge out there saying that.

Single threaded performance is still extremely relevant today, and that's an area important to us all and it's also where the 2600k excels.

So I will bear in mind about the 980x for when I get a render farm put in the shed lol, until that time i'm happy with my faster than 980x overclocked 2600k:D


It is however not worth changing from a 980x from a performance point of view. New build is a different matter.
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