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[AnotherTechGuy]

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[iNothing]

Where did u buy it from?

[X1XNobleX1X]

 

As always, your input is valued.

The 4730K will still be a lot faster. 

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[AnotherTechGuy]

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[ERSCreeper]

4930K every day.

[91wow]

the 4820 will do better in single core and some games at that speed, but the 4930K is a 6 core and can OC very well. 

[UnknownEngineer]

The answer is not as simple here as witch is better.

1: What kind of code compiling do you mean? And is the compiler you use able to use 12 treads? (will get back to this when given more details) Actually ill just edit the post now, Simply put the 4930K will most-likely be you weapon of choice here, it is meant for such workloads, the 4870K is a editing/gaming chip, the 4930K is just brute editing, gaming is definitely not the intended usage for this one.

2: Gaming the 4820K will most likely beat the crap out of the 4930K because the cores on the 4930K will not be used as much, you will have the same amount of cores working. On the other they are just much faster. I am not sure if these CPU's are from the same wafer/platter/disk (when they are being manufactured), this could make a bit of a difference as then the 4930K would have stronger cores, but still, a small difference, would still most-likely lose.

3: General usage is quite a large area to cover, could you specify? If you mean Browsing the internet? Or something else?

 

The 4930 is meant for hardcore editing that uses allot of CPU, the 4870K is just mean for regular editing, but with the OC and the actual usage, you could be better off with the lower end chip.

[TheDigitalRealm]

The 4730K will still be a lot faster. 

You made a new processor?! Where can I buy this magical chip?

[X1XNobleX1X]

You made a new processor?! Where can I buy this magical chip?

Haha, thanks for pointing that out.

I meant 4930k!

[X1XNobleX1X]

Nice system btw

Thank you!

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[UnknownEngineer]

Languages: C++, C#, Java, Vb (On the rare occasion)

 

Main compilers: Dr Java, Xcode, Visual studio

From what i could get from my quick googling of the software i would say that they are quite light programs, i would vote for the 4870K bocause OC, i cant really say anything else.

[Jumper118]

Good evening,

 

Today I was lucky enough to snipe a 4930k for $300 AUD (For scale, a 4770k is $400 here)

 

I couldn't help myself, it was such a bargain, so I've swapped it out for my beastly overclocked 4820k, that was at 5.0GHz.

 

Now here's the important part

 

If the 4920k is a poor overclocker 

 

Which CPU config will be more  faster for tasks such as:

-Compiling moderate-large chunks of code

-Gaming

-General usage

 

 

 

Tl;dr;

A 4930k @3.4-Turbo 3.9

A 4820k OC'd @5.0

 

As always, your input is valued.

i was overclock it then test it first thats the only way to know.

[LukaP]

Yeah oc the 6core too. I guarantee it wont go to 5ghz due to having to support more cores, but if you have a multithreaded workload (you do) it will be faster even at stock.

[BrightCandle]

For the compiling your doing the 5Ghz quad core will be faster for everything except large C++ projects. Java doesn't multithread at all well, Visual studio generally doesn't use multiple threads until the projects get pretty big and VB certainly doesn't.

 

The grand majority of games will also run better on the 4 core 5Ghz CPU. Very very few use more than a couple of cores worth of CPU and the scaling from 2 to 4 cores is often marginal so 4 to 6 is even more marginal. Its not true in every game, some of them do use up to 6 cores (BF4) but if you are leaving that 4930k at 3.4 Ghz default its only got 6x 3.4 Ghz = 20.4Ghz compared to the 4x 5Ghz = 20Ghz of your quad core so the quad core is going to likely perform better.

 

Even these days you should prefer clock speed over cores, only a few key applications really use those 6 cores well enough to make it worth the while and general use, developing in most languages and gaming are not those applications.

[harrynowl]

If it doesn't OC and doesn't improve performance in your tasks then re-sell it on for profit.

[Tam3n]

the 4820k will most likely remain faster in games, since the 4930k probably can't be overclocked anywhere near 5 GHz unless you get a diamond chip. Some of the newer games might slightly benefit from two extra cores, but then again 4820 with it's higher oc will still be faster. The 4930k has a slightly larger cache (12 MB vs 10 MB of the 4820k), but then again there's more cores to feed from it. "General use", well unless you run out of threads the higher clocked one will be faster, though you won't actually notice this in office/browsing stuff. In rendering and other heavily multithreaded tasks the 4930k will obviously be faster. Once you get the 4930k up and running, let us know which one was faster in games etc