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Originally Posted by WingsofWar
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?
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My pleasure. The SB-E won't ONLY run on LC, but that's what Intel is pushing/recommending. Intel's working with Asetek, the same company who made the Corsair Hydro H70 LC kit to make an Intel TM'd LC kit.
I'm pretty damn excited about the next few generations of Intel chips. I'm still not sure if I want to go with s2011 or s1155. Considering the Ivy Bridge chips will be 100% backwards compatible with the current SB/SB-E chips I might go with a "lesser" processor (2600k/2700k) now and upgrade to the big dog IB/IB-E in a year or so. Also with Quad Channel Memory controllers I'll definitely be going with a 16GB configuration.