3970X or 6700K

[Guest]

Hi Guys

 

I have a bit of a dilemma.

I'm planning my new PC and I have two options for the CPU:

 

New 6700k: £250 (360USD)

 

Used 3970X: £200 (290USD) 

(My friend got it upto 4.3Ghz, but it has had quite heavy use)

 

What would you recommend? I think the 3970X is an amazing deal but would it be worth just buying the newest CPU and DDR4?

 

 

[othertomperson]

6700k. The 3970X might still have a slight edge in heavily multithreaded workloads still, but even then it's not going to be miles and miles ahead. Skylake also comes with newer features like M.2, PCIe 3.0, USB 3.1.

[SeanAngelo]

3 minutes ago, Pearsonia said:

Hi Guys

 

I have a bit of a dilemma.

I'm planning my new PC and I have two options for the CPU:

 

New 6700k: £250 (360USD)

 

Used 3970X: £200 (290USD) 

(My friend got it upto 4.3Ghz, but it has had quite heavy use)

 

What would you recommend? I think the 3970X is an amazing deal but would it be worth just buying the newest CPU and DDR4?

 

 

6700k

[BrightCandle]

Its not even a competition, an obsolete CPU or a modern one for +£50. There is no doubt the 6700k will be faster in just about everything, its literally the performance of the 6 cores of the Ivy Bridge in 4 cores.

[Mr.Meerkat]

25 minutes ago, BrightCandle said:

Its not even a competition, an obsolete CPU or a modern one for +£50. There is no doubt the 6700k will be faster in just about everything, its literally the performance of the 6 cores of the Ivy Bridge in 4 cores.

You know they're not Ivybridge cores right? They are sandybridge cores...so yeah...

[Jumper118]

you can get a 3930k for £120ish so i would get that. 

[aisle9]

6700K, hands down.

[SLAYR]

5 hours ago, Pearsonia said:

Hi Guys

 

I have a bit of a dilemma.

I'm planning my new PC and I have two options for the CPU:

 

New 6700k: £250 (360USD)

 

Used 3970X: £200 (290USD) 

(My friend got it upto 4.3Ghz, but it has had quite heavy use)

 

What would you recommend? I think the 3970X is an amazing deal but would it be worth just buying the newest CPU and DDR4?

 

 

Go for the 6700k, overall it would be cheaper then the 3970x once you get a used $250USD x79 motherboard, and you can find decent z170 boards for half that.

[othertomperson]

8 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

You know they're not Ivybridge cores right? They are sandybridge cores...so yeah...

Ivy Bridge = Sandy Bridge + die shrink. Ivy Bridge is cheaper to produce and is more power efficient, but in terms of performance there's little between them.

[Mr.Meerkat]

16 hours ago, othertomperson said:

Ivy Bridge = Sandy Bridge + die shrink. Ivy Bridge is cheaper to produce and is more power efficient, but in terms of performance there's little between them.

Ivybridge was just a little faster in terms of IPC but not massively  but still, 5-10% is still something when it's across all 6 cores  

[KSores]

#6700kMasterRace

[shdowhunt60]

On 5/15/2016 at 6:39 AM, BrightCandle said:

Its not even a competition, an obsolete CPU or a modern one for +£50. There is no doubt the 6700k will be faster in just about everything, its literally the performance of the 6 cores of the Ivy Bridge in 4 cores.

Once again, Sandy Bridge is obsolete now?

[i_build_nanosuits]

3970X : around +20% multi-thread performance

6700K: around +25% single-thread performance

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-3970X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700K/m6794vs3502

 

 

Multi-threaded performance will help in multi-threaded tasks such and video and audio production, rendering, 3d modelling...where as single-threaded performance will help achieve better gaming performance, faster system response time and general and generally better performance in just about anything that is not a predicteable load (such as video rendering or trans-coding for example)

 

I think for most users the 6700K would be by far a better choice unless this is for a heavy lifting workstation/rendering machine.

[SLAYR]

52 minutes ago, shdowhunt60 said:

Once again, Sandy Bridge is obsolete now?

No sandy bridge is still good, since intel hasn't made drastic improvement on their cpus.

[SteveGrabowski0]

If it's for a gaming system the 6700k is the best processor on the market.

[othertomperson]

4 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Ivybridge was just a little faster in terms of IPC but not massively  but still, 5-10% is still something when it's across all 6 cores  

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Haswell-Review-Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Performance-and-Architecture/Clock-Clock-Sandy

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6215/2/intel-five-generation-ipc-test-broadwell-haswell-ivy-bridge-sandy-bridge-and-nehalem-results

 

Ivy Bridge tended to be clocked higher at stock, but clock for clock it seems to be closer to 1% better than 5%.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, othertomperson said:

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Haswell-Review-Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Performance-and-Architecture/Clock-Clock-Sandy

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6215/2/intel-five-generation-ipc-test-broadwell-haswell-ivy-bridge-sandy-bridge-and-nehalem-results

 

Ivy Bridge tended to be clocked higher at stock, but clock for clock it seems to be closer to 1% better than 5%.

Meh, I guess