DX79SR with 3960X

[HrutkayMods]

Hi guys, so I've been in the market for a new computer for quite a while now. I'm one of those people for some reason that just love Extreme Editions, it's not that they're better than the other Intel CPUs, I think it's just more for bragging rights lol. I've had many extreme editions (all chips bought used), a Gallatin 3.46 Ghz 478 Pentium 4, an i7 920XM, and my current desktop has a QX6800. Except for the 920XM which my laptop did not play well with and now I'm stuck with the 740QM, I still have all those computers and run them as a matter of fact.

My current desktop for being 3 Intel generations older than my laptop and having half the ram running half the speed of my laptop's (8GB DDR2 vs 16GB DDR3), still smokes my laptop in every way shape and form especially running a GTX 960 (even at 1.1 8x). I can still game on the computer quite well, even though new titles say they support much newer CPUs my computer can still run the games at pretty good frame rates. But it's getting near 10 years old and parts are starting to break and it's really not worth maintaining it. The power supply has been in the process of frying itself in for the last week or two it never seems to want to power on, so I decided to get a new computer for as cheap as possible.

I found a great deal on a combo of a DX79SR with a 3960x, I spent over a week weighing my options and comparing specs with newer hardware, and my general consensus was that it still compared quite well with new top systems and is nearly identical to the 5820k in specs and performance. So I was sold on the idea and bought it.

I'll be overclocking it with an air cooler as high as I can safely and I will be using the GTX 960 from my current desktop in it with another identical 960 in sli. Both happen to be 4GB EVGA SSC editions. It will be nice to finally not have bottlenecks and I'm also putting 32 GB of RAM in it, but using four 8 GB sticks, to leave room in case I want to go to 64 in the future. And finally I'm using a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD for my operating system Drive.

I know the system is a giant leap in performance for me do you guys by any chance know exactly what I should expect in modern gaming and also in using folding @ home? I suspect it will be able to hold up is a very good gaming system for a very very very long time.

Also for my current desktop, I am getting a cheap power supply, installing my GTX 950 I used for a month, and turning it into a dedicated F@H remote rig, so it's by no means being retired, it's just not going to be my dedicated gaming rig.

So what do you guys think? Is it a good set up?

[Enderman]

what??

how did you come to the conclusion that it is nearly identical to the 5820k??

 

sure it has the same number of cores and threads, but single core performanc ehas improved a lot since the 3960x was released...

the 5820k is actually a lot better

[HrutkayMods]

I know that it has improved "a lot" but it's still not enough to say that it's a lot in my opinion it's just an incremental increase in performance it's nothing really to sneeze at

[HrutkayMods]

For what I need my system for this is plenty enough for me

[sgtheadhole]

Good performance, and overclocking will bring it up with intels best and latest. If you got that CPU at half the price of a new 5820k+mobo, then your in the kings seat

[HrutkayMods]

Good performance, and overclocking will bring it up with intels best and latest. If you got that CPU at half the price of a new 5820k+mobo, then your in the kings seat

That's exactly why I bought it, it'll be overclocked as high as my heavy duty air cooler can go (I find liquid cooling a bit of a hassle), it'll be a speed demon and yes it was dirt cheap so I'm happy

[sgtheadhole]

That's exactly why I bought it, it'll be overclocked as high as my heavy duty air cooler can go (I find liquid cooling a bit of a hassle), it'll be a speed demon and yes it was dirt cheap so I'm happy

Similar Situation to me, X5650 is like the Core i7 990X, the Generation before the 3930k

 

Except the Xeon chip is much rarer binned than the 990X, has a higher max operating temp, and better overclocking ability (even though its multi is locked)

[HrutkayMods]

Got it all built, started on first try with no issues, still learning Overclocking for the chip, currently have the TB at 4.2GHz stable and my SSC 960 GTXs at a 50MHz OC in SLI. It was a great Idea to build this rig and I'll probably post a build blog on it soon. Specs "[PC#1]" are currently on my profile page, it flies!