What build to go with 2011 or 1155 price to performance ratio - Page 2

It's funny that you ask. It depends on the price. Other than in benchmarking, you really won't notice the difference between a 3770K vs 2600K. Both will be great in gaming and will depend on how good your GPU is. Ivy is clock for clock faster, but 5% ish. It may help with video coding, but not much. If you can get it for the same price as the 2600K, I don't see why not, but if it costs more, its really not worth it. You'll find others who disagree, but I would ask those users for benchmarks and make your own decision. Anandtech has comparisons between the 2:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=551

You can see there are very minuscule improvements. Your real benefits would come from a 3930K with the 6 core / 12 thread processor, but that does jump in price.

I think the main question is how much video editing will you do. The most that I do is converting over my blu rays to my ipad. I don't mind my 2600K for that. If it was your job to constantly do things like that, the extreme platform may be best, but I think that if you went with 2600K and you did a low to average amount of converting, you'd be happy you didnt spend the extra money on the 3930K. It doesnt hurt to buy a 2011 board now, but really think about the chances of upgrading down the road. If its very slim, its not worth going with the 3820.

I am the same way as you are when doing this sort of thing. I can spend hours reviewing every decision. If you are doing what you are doing today with your sig rig, the 2600K is going to be a huge performance increase for you.
Edited by yanks8981 - 5/24/12 at 8:49am

I would go with a 2011 rig.

I was in your same shoes and my rig is comparable to yours (No L3 cache) I do feel as though the extra money is worth it. I mean it is only $150 bucks.

I was in exactly the same situation as you a few months ago, personally I went with X79 because when I need to upgrade next I won't have to buy another motherboard, just the CPU as Ivybridge-E will use the 2011 socket, whereas the 1155 socket has reached the end of it's life after Ivybridge.

Also X79 is good for larger amounts of RAM, particularly good if you want to use a RAM disk or if you use VM's.

Build 1: LGA 1155
CPU- i7 3770K $340
MoB0- AsRock Extreme4 Z77 $135
GPU- GTX 670 or HD 7950 $400
HDD- Seagate 7200rpm 2TB $120
RAM- Corsair 1866 4x2gb $55
PSU- Corsair 750w modular 80 plus Gold $160
DVDRW- Cheapo $18
Case- HAFX $180

Or wait for IVY - E

340$ 3770k vs 590$ 3930k It is back and forth But there is quite the price diff between the two http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/551?vs=552
For 230$ less and going back and forth seems the 3770k is for you.
Edited by Hokies83 - 5/24/12 at 8:56am

Personally I would suggest just getting the 1155 build and spend the extra 150 on a HD 7970

I suppose im a bit biased towards the beefer GPU, primarily all my storage needs are now offloaded to the network. So i'll prolly gonna retire my old Raptors for a pair of SSD's one for OS and the other for running applications. Good luck on your build man, im sure which path you choose it would be fantastic!

From what I have seen, the 670 is a pretty good deal in terms of cost/performance