Not that I have tons of time to game anymore due to work, but my desktop is in need of some serious love(still rocking a Core Duo, and 180GB drive). I been looking around and trying to catch myself up to the market(I only bother to browse when I am looking to upgrade). Currently I have a GTX670 plopped in at the moment which I picked up when my GTX280 burned out. Looking to replace it later depending on Titan reviews. CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard SSD: Intel 520 Series Cherryville SSDSC2CW240A3K5 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RAM: Meh. Haven't looked yet. PSU: (Might need upgrade based on GFX choice) GFX: GTX Titan(Depending on performance reviews) From browsing the forums everyone was mentioning a new Intel release via the(internet check) Ivy-Bridge-E? Anyone else waiting around for that particular upgrade/announcement? Opinions? Side Note: Yes, I want a big fat CPU core for database management/processing/and rendering while I play games at the same time.
Haswell is what I think most people would refer to as the new Intel cpu. It's a new architecture so it's a different chip than Sandy Bridge (or Ivy, which is basically an Sandy with a new way of making transistors) Ivy Bridge-E is just the server version of what's out on the desktop now. The server chips come out a year after the desktop versions. The mainstream desktop parts are just so much more bang-for-the-buck. All you really do by going to -E is get quad channel memory and more cores. Both of which are not massive frame-rate improver. You're not going to render videos and play games at the same time, that's just asking for bad frame rates and slow rendering. Upgrading a GTX670 to a Titan is within a single chip-generation. You can tick the "most expensive" boxes all the way down and go to town, sure, but think about how quickly hardware advances. How often do you replace parts? Why do you want to pay 2x as much for something a bit better when in a year you could pay half as much for the same performance bump and the new technologies?
Generally speaking I upgrade my desktop every 4-5 years. Hence why my CPU is from 2007 and I am running a 180GB drive. Correct. But the 700 series is a rebrand so it is likely the Titan will remain a top of the line card for an extended period of time if I am not mistaken. Time is money, my friend. : P Because the non-hassle value is worthwhile to me. As mentioned before, my rig is 5 years old minus the gfx card(rip 280, I miss you) but still comfortably played Planetside 2(because it is terribly designed) at 40-60 frames. Realistically I don't really need to update anything unless I wanted to play Crysis 3 on max settings. I am doing so because I have thrown loose the shackles of university and now have someone throwing large piles of money at me for no apparent reason.
Looks good to me. Im also buying Titan cause 7xx series is just a rebrand of 6xx. Here is a leaked img with some titan vs gtx 680
I am told that IvyBridge-E *may* launch in June or July. But as I said in the other thread someone started today, I dont really see a point of wanting to go with any socket 2011 system unless you are buying at least 32GB of memory and running multiple graphics cards. That is the only point to this socket and if your not doing that then you need to be looking at the socket 1155 systems. What kind of rendering? Does it only run on the CPU or will it take advantage of the GPU cores via CUDA or OpenCL? You need to find that out so you know what GPU to buy and if you even need to be looking at "big cores". Because honestly (and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here) if you want database management, rendering, and a side of gaming and your applications will NOT run in the GPU then you should be looking to AMD on a dual 16-thread system rather than Intel for a 12 thread computer. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113306 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113305 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239229 x8 That Opteron 6376 will overclock itself to 2.6GHz automatically if you are using more than 8 cores on its CPU and the power consumption is under 115 watts. It will also overclock itself to 3.2GHz if you are using 8 cores or less on it. The Opteron 6348 will OC itself to 3.1GHz when using more than 6 cores and CPU power consumption is less than 115w. ANd it will boost itself to 3.4GHz if you are using 6 cores or less. Both of these can probably be increased in the MB to overclock even if you are using 115w, just set a higher power target level. The second boost (for when using half or less cores) will basically always take place because since it is only actually using half the cores it will always be using less than 115 watts. You may get quad channel memory when going to socket 2011 from 1155, but memory bandwidth is not holding anything back right now so that doesnt matter at all. The main thing with the quad channel on socket 2011 is for large amounts of RAM, not its faster speed. Oh and that socket G34 stuff also has quad channel memory, had it before Intel in fact. But again, not that it actually matters.