Upgrade path?

[patters1978]

Hi everyone

 

im thinking of perhaps upgrading my pc and was wondering your guys advice on my best upgrade path?

 

so my machine is the following

 

gigabyte ga-x79-ud3

i7 3820

and a mixed bag of ram totalling 16gb

 

also attached is a ASUS 1060 6gb which I will be keeping

 

now I run this setup at 4.5ghz @ 1.3v using a AIO Antec Cooke it gives decent performance in games and emulators I haven’t tried video editing yet on it but I will be doing some 4K mavic editing on it.

 

so why upgrade well simply socket 2011 prices are crazy on eBay now so can get a good price back for the cpu and motherboard 

 

so where would you guys go? Obviously budget is a factor but looking for something that’s gonna be better in newer tech before the x79 boom drops

 

cheers

[WereCat]

If you dont need it just save your money. Yes, you can get a good deal on 2011 socket CPU and MoBo but you need DDR4 RAM which just kills the entire deal price wise as DDR4 is still very expensive right now.

[patters1978]

Well my next purchase was going to be some better DDR3 memory as mine is mixed bag and I’m sure is preventing a better overclock ( cpu gets into windows at 1.375v @ 4.9ghz ) 

 

so id be spending on memory in my head regardless here in the uk ddr3 8gb 1600mhz is £55 

for ddr4 8gb 2133mhz is £70 

 

id also regain around £30 for my mixed bag memory too bridging the price gap some

 

 

[speed258]

Well I suggest buy intel xeon your motherboard supports quite a lot: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-X79-UD3-rev-10#support-cpu and if I were you I'd sell my all rams if they are different and buy same(4x 4GB best combo if you plan is 16gbs), then buy ssd and hybrid hdd my workstation is using Firecuda hybrid hdd and damn its good, and here you go you got powerful workstation with a lot of cores, plenty rams and good storage and nothing need to change, unless I suggest to take PSU from Tier 1 

If you ever need more power you can overclock your xeon. Since your motherboard supports such feature AND xeons likes to be overclocked I readed a lot of threads where people squeezing xeons to 5.5+ Ghz 

[patters1978]

Hmm not thought of xeons 

 

i was looking at the 3930k cpu what model Xeon you recommend?