Edit, please read.
All I mean to do is compare value in current time. Not performance. Extreme OCers will opt for a much better 2011 socket when it comes out, in what, november??
So the idea is that the now current niche spot.for a 990x should be $450. While the 2011 takes top dog at a cost of 1000 for a high end choice.
I figured to make a different poll since the one in intel general got me thinking.
The 2600k/2500k processors are so popular and perform so well that everything else is almost not worthwhile for the price you pay.
The 2011 is coming out and the 2600k is out at a great price and amazing performance. now would be a perfect time for 1366 huge price cuts.
I feel the 990x should be around $450-500 perfect place for it in a SB ruled world.
So lets have a poll for fun and maybe end with a real price cut (overly optemistic)
I would go for the 2600k no doubt. The architecture is faster and it overclocks higher. Plus socket 1155 will house Ivy Bridge so with many motherboards it is possible to upgrade to it. 1366 not happening. 990X is end of the road.
It is apple to apple.
The apple is, is it worth your money?
As compared to the 2600k being a great deal for 3/0
Is 450 a good deal for.a 990x
As I said, the 990x isn't made to compete with the 2600k, so you can't compare the two as they are aimed at entirely different audiences.
You are basically saying that a Ferrari Enzo should cost £3,000, because you can fit the same amount of shopping in a 4 year old Ford Fiesta which was £3k. Whilst true, not at all relevant or a logical comparison.
As I said, the 990x isn't made to compete with the 2600k, so you can't compare the two as they are aimed at entirely different audiences.
You are basically saying that a Ferrari Enzo should cost £3,000, because you can fit the same amount of shopping in a 4 year old Ford Fiesta which was £3k. Whilst true, not at all relevant or a logical comparison.
True but it would be 300 for 2600k and 450 for a 900x, still more expensive but im just saying cus when 2011 drops it will have 1000 dollar processors that will make 1366 obsolete at that price so its niche is ~500.
Just a though. Wasnt meaning to compare performance of a processor but to mearly conpare the value in the current time.
6/12 cores/threads VS 4/8 cores/threads, both 32nm
I would always go with more.
990x FTW
Sandy Bridge is faster than Gulftown though clock for clock, and overclocks considerably higher on the same cooling setup if it were used on both platforms. Plus it's cheaper, and 4GB sticks of memory are so cheap I think it's a no brainer to go with the 2600k over an old architecture. Even in apps that were fully multithreaded, the 2600k would be close in performance to the 990x assuming you overclocked both to their full potential. And you can upgrade to Ivy Bridge on the right socket 1155 motherboard. Lastly the power saving features on Sandy Bridge work soooo much better than on anything with X58.
I'd go with the 2600k.
LGA1366 is at the end of it's life, and you have no upgrade path with it.
With 1155, you'll be able to pop an Ivy Bridge CPU right in with just a BIOS update, if anything.
990X = Best availible CPU bar none ATM in the enthusiast market segment
2600K = Best availible CPU bar none ATM in the mainstream market segment
Until LGA2011 apears that is the way it breaks down.
For now though you really have to look at what you will be using it for and if you can utilze 6 pyhsicals and 6 virtuals .... if you can the 990X will eat the 2600K for lunch .......
If not the 2600K will be a superior choice
Another thing to consider is if you plan to have this for a long period of time with out upgrading the 990X may be the best long term despite being the end of the road for X58 as software and games are looking to utilize more cores this alone may bode well for the 990X
I might vote for the 990x because of the e-epeen (
) and it's sheer power. For daily use though, you won't notice a difference between the two of them.
If it was my call to make, I'd probably just save money and get a 2600k since we don't even have enthusiast chips for Sandy Bridge yet.... that leaves a little room for upgrading on the 1155 socket.
In my mind the 990x is like owning a supercar (IE: Veyron, Zonda R, FXX...) and owning a 2600K is like owning a mid range powered sports car (IE: M3, STI, Evo). Personally as much as I would love to own some crazy super car, if I can't make use of it then it's not nearly as much fun as owning a mid range car that I could make use of. That's just how I see it. If you can't make use of the 6 cores then why have it other than to compensate for other things...
Why hasn't anyone asked him what he wants to do with his computer? Thats kinda important. If he's just gaming and doing general computing stuff the 2600k will be more than adequate and save him $150. If he's using crazy multi-threaded apps that need all those threads then the 990X may be worth the extra cash.
If he wants the epeen the 990X is definitely the way to go!
That e-peen needs a lot of watering then unless we're talking emptying our wallets. The 990x takes 1st place in this category. I'd take the 2500/2600K over the 990x even at this theoretical price point.
Originally Posted by Troj;14978616
990x gives a small performance edge for software programs that will use all its cores (Maya, Max, Blender, Photoshop...) yet the improvements over 2600K are negligible.
If a 990x or 980x was down to $450 I would buy one in a heartbeat and wait for 2011 to mature a little. To me, its down to board design. I like the range of choices and TOTAL LACK of NF200 on X58 better.
Having owned both a 980x and 2500k, both at 4.5ghz I can say the 980x hands down feels faster in everything it does, regardless of what benchmarks say. I soldthe 980x system as I just wasn't using its potential, but I wish I hadn't.
O.O I edited my post. Looking through my notes I saw the 990x gave a 15% boost in rendering when using Mental Ray, but I don't use Mental Ray in my modeling. I retracted what I posted in any case. In gaming, the 990x falls behind the 2500/2600K; there's more to a rig than just the cpu though (thank you OCN
) so the 990x at half price would allow money to be spent elsewhere.
If I were heavily into CGI, I would not be looking into the 990x, but you can read much more concise, and informed, posts/specs on gnomon, boxx, and other sites dedicated to CGI.
It's always fun when a company drops a price by half, so from this thread to Intel.
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