best cpu to go with?

[bobbytommerson]

I currently have a z77 motherboard and im thinking of building a pc. but then i realised how good x58 is. There are a bunch of dual socket x58 mobos on ebay for around 50 dollars so im thinking of selling my current z77 mobo and buying the x58 mobo with 2 xeons x5660s for around 40 bucks. should i do it or not? Also could someone tell me the best cpu that is supported on z77, anything above 4c 8t/extreme? thanks

[ProRifts]

I am not completely familiar with the Z77 chip-set but if it is the bored that I think it is, then going with an  i7-8700K would be the way to go. Depends on what sort of budget you have though.

[jonrosalia]

im thinking the top CPU for the Z77 was the 3770k

[bobbytommerson]

4 minutes ago, jonrosalia said:

im thinking the top CPU for the Z77 was the 3770k

Ah i see thanks

 

[bobbytommerson]

12 minutes ago, ProRifts said:

I am not completely familiar with the Z77 chip-set but if it is the bored that I think it is, then going with an  i7-8700K would be the way to go. Depends on what sort of budget you have though.

no unfortunately the 8700k is not supported and fits in a different socket. the z77 chipset only supports i think 2nd and 3rd gen

[ProRifts]

2nd and 3rd gen?! Aren't we on 8th gen now? Or am I being a dummie?

[bobbytommerson]

2 minutes ago, ProRifts said:

2nd and 3rd gen?! Aren't we on 8th gen now? Or am I being a dummie?

ye wea re but since we are ths far in, the older cpus still perform great and are now super cheap. especially the xeons, 6c12t for 20 dollars, its just the motherboard that is expensive

[ProRifts]

intel core i5 3570k @ 3.40 ghz? Check if that is compatible.

[Fasauceome]

44 minutes ago, ProRifts said:

I am not completely familiar with the Z77 chip-set but if it is the bored that I think it is, then going with an  i7-8700K would be the way to go. Depends on what sort of budget you have though.

That's LGA 1151 v2, Z77 is LGA 1155

[GloriousPain]

8 hours ago, ProRifts said:

2nd and 3rd gen?! Aren't we on 8th gen now? Or am I being a dummie?

Yes, we're on 8th gen but... tbh it's not as big of a jump as you'd imagine because of the way intels gens have worked. For the most part cause of AMD's lack of competition (until Ryzens recent success) they kinda sat on their ass... and their tick-tock cycle made this even worse. as a rough explanation of the last few years of intels generations. 

 

1st/1.5st Gen Nehalem and WestMere were massive upgrades over the C2Q days...  if they were a 10 in terms of IPC then; 

 

2nd Gen Sandy Bridge would probably be a 13 in IPC; again decent jump +30%ish

 

3rd Gen Ivy Bridge though is really just a refresh of Sandy... more focused on power efficiency; with the earlier scale it'd probably be like a 13.5 in IPC...

 

4th Gen Haswell/4.5th Gen Devils Canyon; mostly focused on feature set, and efficiency again would likely be 14

 

5th Gen Broadwell was almost entirely focused on mobile markets and other things. IPC=14.1 

 

6th Gen Skylake; introduced DDR4 to mainstream and some other features; again power efficiency 14.8

 

7th Gen Kabylake; Skylake refreshed... minor improvements. probably like 15.2

 

8th Gen Coffeelake; Skylake refreshed... AGAIN... WITH MORE CORES AND HIGHER CLOCKS (wow this sounds like AMD's FX headlines all over again)  which probably falls around 16? So again if you compare it to ivy's 13.5 Ivy isn't quite as good but it's still completely valid especially when you realize you can get some Ivy parts for fractions the price of their coffee lake counterparts/equivalents; like you can get an old motherboard; xeon 1230 v2; and 32GB of DDR3 ram for probably like $200? That's honestly similar to just what a good coffeelake motherboard and 8GB ddr4 of ram will cost you... or if you're into say productivity you can just look at Craft Computing's channel on youtube the recent video "Dual x79"  and get something like 32 threads and 64GB of ivy-E computational power for $500ish... the price of a good coffeelake chip...