Overclock.net › Forums › Intel › Intel CPUs › Overclocked i7 3770k vs overclocked i7 3930k
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Overclocked i7 3770k vs overclocked i7 3930k

post #1 of 5
Thread Starter 
A few months back i was about to purchase a i7 3930k. I didn't because i wanted to see what happened with ivy bridge. Well IB has been out for a while now. All you folks here have had time to test drive the crap out of it. So now that the numbers are in. Whats the score when both of these great cpus are overclocked.. I will be using a XSPC Raystorm RX360 Extreme for cooling. As far as mobo, for the 3930k i would rock the asus rampage iv extreme. I am not sure whats a great mobo for the 3770k. I plan to push the oc to the max then back her down a bit for long life. I just want to know what cpu has the most raw power. My main pc use is gaming but i would like to know i have the power to do other demanding things. From what i have heard IB suffers from heat when oced. In the end though the 6 cores of the i7 3930k has to be a bit warm as well. I plan to sli the rumored gtx 685 if it is not just a rumor. I play skyrim with insane amounts of mods and its killing my phenom II. I usually buy all the new games with the bomb graphics. So i want a cpu that i know is going to eat up anything i throw at it for a good amount of time. Oh i have one other question, i heard from a friend that the i7 3930k won't support pci e 3.0 not that it matters much at the moment.
Boss Sauce
(15 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i7 3930k @ 4.7ghz 1.34 v.core  Asus Rampage IV Extreme  Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb 
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
G.skill Ripjaws Z series 4x4gb  250gb 840 Series  128gb Mushkin  150gb Hd Hitachi  
Optical DriveCoolingOSMonitor
12x Sony dvd-rw Raystorm cpu block. With EX420 Radiator and a D... Windows 7 Pro 64bit 47inch Sony HD 1080p 
PowerCaseOther
Coolermaster 1200 Watt Silent Pro Gold Coolermast Haf 42 Blue edition Scythe KAZE MASTER Ace fan controler  
  hide details  
Reply
Boss Sauce
(15 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i7 3930k @ 4.7ghz 1.34 v.core  Asus Rampage IV Extreme  Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb 
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
G.skill Ripjaws Z series 4x4gb  250gb 840 Series  128gb Mushkin  150gb Hd Hitachi  
Optical DriveCoolingOSMonitor
12x Sony dvd-rw Raystorm cpu block. With EX420 Radiator and a D... Windows 7 Pro 64bit 47inch Sony HD 1080p 
PowerCaseOther
Coolermaster 1200 Watt Silent Pro Gold Coolermast Haf 42 Blue edition Scythe KAZE MASTER Ace fan controler  
  hide details  
Reply
post #2 of 5
I recommend a the 3770k. It's a drop in replacement and will overclock fairly well. Don't expect to get 4.7+ with ease though. As you probably already know, IB chips get much hotter and can be a little more difficult to get stable (passed 4.6).
SLI Dog
(16 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i5 3570K Gigabyte Z68X-UD3R-B3 GTX 570 GTX 570 
RAMHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
G.Skill RipJaws OCZ Agility 3 in RAID 0. G.Skill 64GB SSD Apps.... LG Blueray Burner Antec 920 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 64bit 24 inch Philips LED monitor Logitech G15 Huntey 900W 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
Lancool PC-K62 (Modded) Coolermaster CM Storm Xtrac Ripper Creative X-FI Titanium 
  hide details  
Reply
SLI Dog
(16 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i5 3570K Gigabyte Z68X-UD3R-B3 GTX 570 GTX 570 
RAMHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
G.Skill RipJaws OCZ Agility 3 in RAID 0. G.Skill 64GB SSD Apps.... LG Blueray Burner Antec 920 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 64bit 24 inch Philips LED monitor Logitech G15 Huntey 900W 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
Lancool PC-K62 (Modded) Coolermaster CM Storm Xtrac Ripper Creative X-FI Titanium 
  hide details  
Reply
post #3 of 5
i7-3930K will last a lot longer on the road because LGA 2011 will keep on having new CPU's added to it until 2016 (Ivy Bridge-E in ~2012-2013?, Haswell-E in ~2015-2016?). X79 does support PCI-E 3.0, though for nVidia cards, you have to get a hack to make it working. It's not going to be important nonetheless because with X79 you have 40 PCI-E lanes, so if you're running a 16X-16X 2.0 SLI/CFX config it's going to be the same as an 8X-8X 3.0 SLI/CFX config.
Also, some mods are incredibly CPU-dependent. I'd get six cores versus four.
Solitude R2.0
(16 items)
 
Klein
(12 items)
 
Lappy
(6 items)
 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 4.0 GHz ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 DiRT 3 Edition Corsair 8GB Vengeance Blue @ 1600MHz 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD LITE-ON iHAS 424-98 Corsair H80 + 2X Corsair 120MM Fans 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Samsung S27A350H 27" LED Backlit HDMI Monitor Lenovo SK-8815 Corsair 850W Professional Series Gold 
CaseMouseAudio
Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse Plantronics GameCom 367 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel i3-2125 Asus P8H77-I Intel HD 3000 Samsung Green 30nm 2x4GB MV-3V4G3D/US 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Crucial M4 128GB  Asus DRW-24B1ST Intel Stock Cooler Windows 8 Pro 
KeyboardPowerCaseOther
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800 Corsair Builder Series CX500V2 Lian Li PC-Q11B TrendNet TEW-684UB 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel i5-3210M Dell 04G65K Intel HD4000 Dell 2x4GB 1600MHz 
Hard DriveOS
Seagate/WD 1TB 5400RPM Windows 7 Home Premium 
  hide details  
Reply
Solitude R2.0
(16 items)
 
Klein
(12 items)
 
Lappy
(6 items)
 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 4.0 GHz ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 DiRT 3 Edition Corsair 8GB Vengeance Blue @ 1600MHz 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD LITE-ON iHAS 424-98 Corsair H80 + 2X Corsair 120MM Fans 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Samsung S27A350H 27" LED Backlit HDMI Monitor Lenovo SK-8815 Corsair 850W Professional Series Gold 
CaseMouseAudio
Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse Plantronics GameCom 367 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel i3-2125 Asus P8H77-I Intel HD 3000 Samsung Green 30nm 2x4GB MV-3V4G3D/US 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Crucial M4 128GB  Asus DRW-24B1ST Intel Stock Cooler Windows 8 Pro 
KeyboardPowerCaseOther
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800 Corsair Builder Series CX500V2 Lian Li PC-Q11B TrendNet TEW-684UB 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel i5-3210M Dell 04G65K Intel HD4000 Dell 2x4GB 1600MHz 
Hard DriveOS
Seagate/WD 1TB 5400RPM Windows 7 Home Premium 
  hide details  
Reply
post #4 of 5
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by funfortehfun View Post

i7-3930K will last a lot longer on the road because LGA 2011 will keep on having new CPU's added to it until 2016 (Ivy Bridge-E in ~2012-2013?, Haswell-E in ~2015-2016?). X79 does support PCI-E 3.0, though for nVidia cards, you have to get a hack to make it working. It's not going to be important nonetheless because with X79 you have 40 PCI-E lanes, so if you're running a 16X-16X 2.0 SLI/CFX config it's going to be the same as an 8X-8X 3.0 SLI/CFX config.
Also, some mods are incredibly CPU-dependent. I'd get six cores versus four.

so if i get the asus rampage iv extreme it states it has pci-e 3.0 but i have to hack it if i use nvidia. Thats kind of weird, is it hard. Like u said though its not like the gtx 685 in 2x sli would saturate pci-e. 2.0 Is this 2.0 limited because of the cpu. In other words when i upgrade from SB-E to IB-E would i then have the 3.0 pci-e. Thats the other reason i have been opting for the x79. I know that i probably won't have (all) the new little things that come with IB-E due to having a old x79 board, but at least the option is there

p.s. just realized i should probably have this in the Intel cpu section, my bad. fell free to move it on over if anyone notices with that ability.
Edited by upload420 - 7/20/12 at 12:45pm
Boss Sauce
(15 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i7 3930k @ 4.7ghz 1.34 v.core  Asus Rampage IV Extreme  Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb 
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
G.skill Ripjaws Z series 4x4gb  250gb 840 Series  128gb Mushkin  150gb Hd Hitachi  
Optical DriveCoolingOSMonitor
12x Sony dvd-rw Raystorm cpu block. With EX420 Radiator and a D... Windows 7 Pro 64bit 47inch Sony HD 1080p 
PowerCaseOther
Coolermaster 1200 Watt Silent Pro Gold Coolermast Haf 42 Blue edition Scythe KAZE MASTER Ace fan controler  
  hide details  
Reply
Boss Sauce
(15 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
i7 3930k @ 4.7ghz 1.34 v.core  Asus Rampage IV Extreme  Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb Gtx 680 Twin Frozr 4gb 
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
G.skill Ripjaws Z series 4x4gb  250gb 840 Series  128gb Mushkin  150gb Hd Hitachi  
Optical DriveCoolingOSMonitor
12x Sony dvd-rw Raystorm cpu block. With EX420 Radiator and a D... Windows 7 Pro 64bit 47inch Sony HD 1080p 
PowerCaseOther
Coolermaster 1200 Watt Silent Pro Gold Coolermast Haf 42 Blue edition Scythe KAZE MASTER Ace fan controler  
  hide details  
Reply
post #5 of 5
For futureproof/multithreaded usage the SB-E chip (3930k) wins otherwise pick the 3770k.
     
CPUMotherboardGraphicsHard Drive
Amd Athlon 64 3200+ Asus K8U-X Radeon HD 3850 AGP Samsung SpinPoint F1  
Hard DrivePowerCaseMouse
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM Corsair TX750W Nexus Breeze Logitech G400 
Mouse PadAudioAudioAudio
Allsop Peace Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Creative Gigaworks T3 Sennheiser PC 360 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7-3770k Asus P8Z77-V Pro Sapphire Vapor-x HD 7970 Ghz Edition 3GB Corsair Vengeance 2x4gb 1600mhz cl9 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm 64mb Samsung 830 128gb LiteOn iHAS124-19 Corsair H100 AP-15 P/P 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 8 Pro English 64-bit Acer V233h Ducky Shine 2 Corsair AX850 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
Fractal Design Arc Midi Razer Deathadder Black Edition Steelseries Qck Sennheiser PC 360 
AudioOtherOtherOther
Creative Gigaworks T3 Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Audio 2 X Bitfenix Spectre pro 140mm (exhaust) 3 X Fractal Design 140mm fan (intake) 
  hide details  
Reply
     
CPUMotherboardGraphicsHard Drive
Amd Athlon 64 3200+ Asus K8U-X Radeon HD 3850 AGP Samsung SpinPoint F1  
Hard DrivePowerCaseMouse
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM Corsair TX750W Nexus Breeze Logitech G400 
Mouse PadAudioAudioAudio
Allsop Peace Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Creative Gigaworks T3 Sennheiser PC 360 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7-3770k Asus P8Z77-V Pro Sapphire Vapor-x HD 7970 Ghz Edition 3GB Corsair Vengeance 2x4gb 1600mhz cl9 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm 64mb Samsung 830 128gb LiteOn iHAS124-19 Corsair H100 AP-15 P/P 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 8 Pro English 64-bit Acer V233h Ducky Shine 2 Corsair AX850 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
Fractal Design Arc Midi Razer Deathadder Black Edition Steelseries Qck Sennheiser PC 360 
AudioOtherOtherOther
Creative Gigaworks T3 Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Audio 2 X Bitfenix Spectre pro 140mm (exhaust) 3 X Fractal Design 140mm fan (intake) 
  hide details  
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Intel CPUs
Overclock.net › Forums › Intel › Intel CPUs › Overclocked i7 3770k vs overclocked i7 3930k