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Originally Posted by 82mm 4g63
Oh, if that's the case then I would just pick up the cheapest motherboard for either one of those two processors. Min-Max'ing with either one of those isn't really worth your brain cells. Whichever can be had cheaper for the month or two you'll be using it will suffice.
As far as the 980x goes, if all things were equal yes 6 cores > 4 cores, but all things aren't equal when comparing the older Gulftown to the latest Sandy Bridge. At stock clock speeds the 2600k is pretty damn close to the 980x performance wise, but the 2700k will be 10% better than the 2600k for the same price as the current 2600k. IMO, equal/better performance for 2/3 the price as well as cheaper motherboards and newer chipsets is a no-brainer.
The s1366 is not the future, it's actually end-of-life. Intel's new s1155 will be the mainstream socket that will be replacing the s1156 and the s2011 will be replacing the s1366 supporting the Sandy Bridge-E cpu's.
If you can sell that 980x for a profit I would definitely do that. Hell, the new Sandy Bridge-E chips will be out soon, the entry level 6-core will be between $550-600. It will also support PCIe 3.0 and Quad Channel Memory. If you have your heart set on those extra cores, which isn't a bad thing, I would maybe hold off and see how much an s2011 rig would set you back. They're going to be nasty machines. But even the s1155 based 2700k would be sexy and would give you a few years worth of possible upgrades before they release their next socket. If you stick with the s1366 you won't be seeing any new processors so you'll be stuck with what you have.
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Thanks so much for the advice! Socket 2011 sounds very very enticing to wait for at the end of the year paired with a Core i7 3930K. I truely feel like ill benefit with a 6core processor over a quad because of the applications i want to run. If i was just thinking of gaming, benchmark tests suggests that core for core 2600k/2700k is the best thing on the market. and i would have just gone with the LGA1115+2600k.
After some reading, im going to sell the i7980 and get some cash back. I was talking to an animator friend of mine in california that works on movies and he said that the best computers in the office for rendering 3D and film are not built from consumer grade processors and GPUs.
Id love to get my hands on some of that, but the cost for industry processing computer parts are astronomical.
Also the new SB-E processors only run on water now? Im really confused as the 2600k overclocked at 5.0ghz is stable on air. What makes SB-E needs water when i cant see it pumping out more heat or power than 2600k. Are we expecting to see overclockers successfully run it at 6.0-8.0ghz out of the box?