1950x or 7940x for 3d rendering and editing/ bread and butter

[Hw87634]

4 hours ago, pKc said:

If you have a chance to buy again this year today? Which one will you choose? Can I ask that to you?  

I love the 1950x power, with the € 500 difference I bought a 2TB SATA SSD. I would buy it again.

 

I have the asus zenith, bad experience due to the faulty foxconn socket, they replaced it and is perfect, it's a little bit expensive. I will never buy gigabyte (may be a suicide), if you don't use wi-fi go for the asrock x399 professional gaming. the asrock wi-fi card is AC 433mbps, the baseline of 802.11 ac, bad choice for asrock. asus has a fantastic wi-fi card, even the useless 802.11ad card. I prefer the 10GbE card, that is awesome.

[pKc]

Why Asus have only 1 mobo on its website? Any major update coming?

https://www.asus.com/in/Motherboards/AMD-platform-Products/

[Hw87634]

same link for me

[Streetguru]

4 hours ago, Hw87634 said:

 

That ASUS board is probably always worth it for that overkill VRM and VRM Heatsink, plus the 2 CPU 8 pin connections.

Gigabyte is one of the top brands next to ASrock, their X470 motherboard looks to be the only one with real VRM heatsinks. Aparently they have some of the better memory overclocking on AM4 as well.
 

 

[pKc]

11 hours ago, Hw87634 said:

same link for me

Can you check x399 only.. not mobo for all chipsets thanks. 

[Hw87634]

Is it a question? asus x399 boards are X399-E GAMING STRIX, X399 PRIME-A and naturally the ROG ZENITH.

[pas008]

On 4/9/2018 at 4:18 AM, Lathlaer said:

AFAIK @done12many2 has both platforms (X299 and X399) and tested both of them in various scenarios, so he might be able to shed some light on your situation. 

agree with this

 

3% faster adds up fast 3% sooner on another job also

time is money either way

[pKc]

15 hours ago, Hw87634 said:

Is it a question? asus x399 boards are X399-E GAMING STRIX, X399 PRIME-A and naturally the ROG ZENITH.

I found only one x399 board in asus India website, though the dealer has most of them, Are we due any upgrade. The dealer may have any version of the mobo. They will not confirm. I will have to order and the check physically the mobo version.

 

Link: https://www.asus.com/in/Motherboards/Intel-platform-Products/

with filter, AMD platform and TR4 chipset

Edited April 11, 2018 by pKc

[pKc]

13 hours ago, pas008 said:

agree with this

 

3% faster adds up fast 3% sooner on another job also

time is money either way

Yes, you are right. I use today a mix of single thread and few multithreaded apps, Overall for a freelancer do all kind of guy I need a fast all-rounder for both kind of scenarios. Single threaded performance is very important. Your overall productivity matters a lot. I do care for single thread performance. A sub $300 price difference is not a deal breaker. I love my i7 6700k its fast. But due to competition, I need to upgrade. 16 cores from AMD tempting, I remember the days when Intel had core duo, core 2 quad processors and AMD released AMD Phenom x II 1090T and 1100T. 6 true core they said, cheaper. I got one that year, 2010. The situation is same again, today.

[Hw87634]

the question we have to ask to ourselves is: if I finish my tasks in a 3% time less... can this yield $300? If the answer is no, there is no reason to buy a 7940x.

If you have now the 6700k... and you are about 3.5 times slower than 1950x, I suppose, can an icrease of 3.5 of speed be translated in a $999 + $500 (mobo) of earn? If the answer is no, 6700k it's good for your tasks, even if could seems slow compared to 1950x. No other words should be spent for this theme, now talk about motheboards.

I believe all X399 ASUS boards are good, simply ZENITH is awesome, I would go for asrock x399 professional gaming simply because a good AC card cannot costs the price difference, anything other is the same of zenith except VRM cooling, ZENITH is made for heavy overclockers. If you don't want 10GbE, asrock X399 taichi has the same specs of professional gaming except the $100 10Gbe card. In my country costs only €320, even €200 less than ZENITH.

 

 

[Coaxialgamer]

I'm not quite sure how you managed to spend that much on a 1950x. That chip can be found for 900$ on amazon 

[Hw87634]

I used the official price. the concept is more important. for example in december I paid it € 837, now is € 780 the lowest price in my country.

 

[pKc]

Well, guys I Finally bought the system and here is the final configuration.

 

CPU Name: Intel® Core™ i9-7940X CPU @ 3.10GHz

Motherboard: MSI X299 TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7B05)

Ram: 64 GB G Skill Rip Jaws, 16 x 4
Graphics: GALAX GeForce® GTX 1070 EXOC-SNPR WHITE
Storage: Samsung Evo 850 250gb , 2TB x 2 Seagate Baracuda.
Cooler: CM 240L RGB
Case: CM h500p
PSU: CM 650 Strom Trooper.
Display: LG 27ud68p-b, 4k.

UPS: Backup APC 1.5 Kva

 

Note: I am not going to overclock at all. My system runs as along as I am awake whole day. Sometime render overnight.
 

Sold my old system to a colleague.

 ~ 1000 USD

i7 6700k, 32 gb HyperX furry Ram, MSI Z170A pro mobo, 24inch LG (2 years old)

Haf 922 case, CM 350W SMPS, 1 tb HDD, 22inch AOC monitor and Geforce 550 TI.(11 years old)

 

The performance is good but still to test the real-time scenarios. Here is some screen grab.

 

Will update later a detailed review something. Attaching some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2018 by pKc