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Seneschal
By Seneschal
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So basically I've been using this beast of an i7 930 for a decade now. I call it a beast 'cause it survived several hurricanes and outages. Paired with, of course.. a Sabertooth x58 board I had to get used off ebay cause my other one died, with 12GB DDR3-1600 ram and a GTX 1060 6GB, which is getting bottlenecked to fuck. Other details but not necessarily important. At some point, I aim to actually have money to upgrade, etc etc..

 

My passion is casual video editing but moreso just gaming and my budget is/will be *high*. I don't want any mid stuff, but I also don't want RGB garbage. I want a total upgrade - sure, but not only do I want to do better than my current hardware, I kinda want something at the top or close, ya feel me? I've seen a fps benchmark comparison of  first gen I7 and I think a 7770K, and I thought the difference over the years wasn't that great and I thought, gee.. intel CPUs are this expensive for this kind of a difference? Maybe I'm wrong there. I just went on pcpartpicker and just tossed in these (yes I have no case, psu, monitor, this is a future thing, just added super important stuff)

 

Are these a good place to start? I thought for over 300 dollars, I'd opt for the Ryzen, I thought since the 2080 got bad reviews I'd opt for the 2070 and since I never tried water cooling I'd opt for the.. Kraken? Also that motherboard was a quick google search pair for the CPU. Otherwise, stir me in the right direction?

  

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($309.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($167.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1207.95


 

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You could get a 6c/12t Xeon for really cheap and then overclock it to 4.2GHz or higher.

 

But if you have a lot of money to use, then the Ryzen 7 2700X is a pretty good upgrade.

Intel Core i9-10900X, Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, 64GB DDR4 3200MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 2TB 970 EVO Plus, 2TB SN570, 8TB HDD, DC Assassin III, Meshify 2

Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

PC 3: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 16GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus RX 470 Strix, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

General X58 Xeon/i7 discussion

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Some of the specs of these systems might not be up to date

PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

 

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Well now, I just learned something new. I thought those Xeons were.. something else entirely, okay now those are cheap. I mean they're not readily available but that's affordable.

 

Ye, to be fair if I have that money I might go the path of new parts and probably a Ryzen 7 2700X but that's a great idea to think about right now.

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Seneschal said:

Well now, I just learned something new. I thought those Xeons were.. something else entirely, okay now those are cheap. I mean they're not readily available but that's affordable.

 

Ye, to be fair if I have that money I might go the path of new parts and probably a Ryzen 7 2700X but that's a great idea to think about right now.

 

 

i would wait, get one of those xeons and go for zen2 when it comes out

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