Looking for a major upgrade

[Toasted Waffles]

I'm looking to get a IVY-E (I7-4930K) and a Asus rampage Black Edition for my 18th Birthday. I work on some video editing projects, digital art and some gaming (a lot of gaming). Would this be a good upgrade from my current platform of a 2600K and a Maximums Formula V motherboard? Speaking of which I have motherboard issues around the clock and the CPU is getting a bit bogged down :C .

[xox]

Yeah, that would be a good upgrade, but I can think of better ways to spend your 18 birthday than building a PC. Much disappoint.

[Commander Llama]

I wouldn't call it a major upgrade personally.  The difference between one generation of processors isn't going to blow your mind, but yeah, you'll notice a difference.

 

Eliminating motherboard issues, on the other hand, sounds like a major relief.

[Toasted Waffles]

Yeah, that would be a good upgrade, but I can think of better ways to spend your 18 birthday than building a PC. Much disappoint.

I thought the same way, however I've been very well off and don't have much other things to do :C

[mikeeginger]

For Gaming no but for Video Editing sure 

more cores are better 

 

I would look at getting a sweet gpu

and a lesser board to get more fps 

[Coombzy]

Unless the video work you do is professional work I don't see that as a viable upgrade also Haswell-E is round the corner so... if you really wanted to upgrade wait till then..

[Toasted Waffles]

I wouldn't call it a major upgrade personally.  The difference between one generation of processors isn't going to blow your mind, but yeah, you'll notice a difference.

 

Eliminating motherboard issues, on the other hand, sounds like a major relief.

I would be moving from a 4 core Sandy Bride to a Ivy Bridge-E 6 core

[Toasted Waffles]

 Personally I would love to get my computer to a point in time that I will not have to upgrade at all until 5-8 years and this should give me enough raw power so I can wait this long. BTW I'm already running SLI GTX 680's 4gb overclocked

[Commander Llama]

I would be moving from a 4 core Sandy Bride to a Ivy Bridge-E 6 core

 

I'm sure it'll pay you some dividends in those heavily threaded video processing tasks, but like I said, subjectively I wouldn't call that major myself.  Not saying you shouldn't do it, just saying when I think major I think someone must be upgrading their Pentium CM to a Haswell or something.  Even though you're jumping to the E series, I'd call it minor.

 

Also I wish I was that rich when I was 18.  you little shit.

[Coombzy]

I would be moving from a 4 core Sandy Bride to a Ivy Bridge-E 6 core

Don't even think about Ivy-E if you really need an upgrade as I said in the post above Haswell-E is right round the corner.

[PaulKolby]

just wait for broadwell and ddr4 and get a new mobo worth the wait