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Would a price cut on 990x get you to buy over a 2600k

  • Yes a 990x at $450 would be my choice

    Votes: 29 50.0%
  • No the 2600k is still a better buy at those prices

    Votes: 22 37.9%
  • I dont care, all I want is 2011

    Votes: 7 12.1%

2600k or a price cut 990x

1K views 24 replies 19 participants last post by  Troj 
#1 ·
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)

Sorry for poor spelling btw.
 
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#4 ·
X58 can still keep up with Sandy Bridge, you are almost discarding it as if it's no longer of any use, which is very far from the truth.

Granted, sandy is a better option now, and the newer CPU's (990x) are aimed at Extreme overclockers and enthusiasts, but the whole X58 platform was!
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by TAr
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compare apple to apple
you cant compare 990x vs 2600
990x is a beast +legend compare to 2600 or 2500 k
xD


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
 
#6 ·
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Originally Posted by Fx4 Mike
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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.
 
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Originally Posted by SmokinWaffle
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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.

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Originally Posted by _s3v3n_
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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.
 
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Originally Posted by liljoejoe54
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I dont have an opinion I just hope that price you set for the 990x is going to come true, lol.


Exactly, so many peiple will buy it that are looking at a upper mid range rig. And top users will still buy 2011 everyones happy lol
 
#18 ·
Well for the record you can compare any two CPU's

Wether it is relevant or not is the issue

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
 
#19 ·
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Originally Posted by Smoblikat;14441892
Get teh 990x, resell it for DOUBLE. Build 2 2600k systems
??????
profit
^What he said.

lol.

I might vote for the 990x because of the e-epeen (
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) 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.
 
#20 ·
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...
 
#21 ·
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!
 
#23 ·
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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.
Negligible generally implies not noticeable.

990xs are generally the best OCing of the Gulftowns and in heavily threaded apps can be ~25% faster than a typical 2600k at it's max stable OC.

~25% is a very big deal in many tasks.
 
#24 ·
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.
 
#25 ·
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
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) 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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