I got caught in the black friday sale at my local micro center, and ended up leaving with a 4790k, and Asrock z-97 Extreme (almost $400). I also picked up my buddy's GTX Titan for 275$ a couple weeks ago. I've been running a 2600k for the longest time, but my mobo was about to be on its way out. I went to micro center hoping to find an 1155 mobo to replace it, and here I am with a new set altogether.
My questions-
First, honestly, do you think I wasted my money, or got a bad deal? I felt like 400 isn't bad for a new CPU/mobo combo, am I wrong? Second, I'm doing a lot of video editing, streaming, and of course gaming. Was this upgrade the right choice? My 2600k wasn't bad, and quite frankly, decent for what I was doing. I was looking to make another computer for my girlfriend, so it was either build her up from my 2600k or build her an AMD (those were on sale too). Of course I made this a good excuse to upgrade myself. She will be doing rendering (interior design) and some gaming. I figured the crossfire scaling would be good for her renders, and with a SSD, just fine with a 2600k. I got really tempted with all the 8-cores on sale, and wondering if an AMD 8 would have been a better choice for her (cheaper for me!).
Last, any thoughts on the new rig? Any advice for me and the 4790k? I'm not planning on OC yet, I wanna see how my streams and stuff are without it.
Was that a titan black? That would be better overall than 2 280x cards for her workload. really unless you're gaming at 4k the 280xs probably won't hold you back much
as far as the deal goes, it's not terrible, though as far as upgrading from a 2600k you probably should have gone skylake for USB 3.1 support, or if you were getting a 6700k a 5820k doesn't cost much more
Did you wasted your money? Yes and no... 5820K and some cheap X99 board will be around 450$ and will boost emensly productivity and streaming... Otherwise 4790K is not really a bad cpu At all... With some OC you may shrink the difference with 5820K...
You poor poor thing... Now you wasted your money... Unless we are talking about TitanX... Otherwise here you have definitely made a bad deal...
Just the regular GTX Titan. Would it really? My previous experience with the x2 280x was pretty good, I'm not running 4k so I think you're right. I'm looking at the 6700k and 5820k right now, and wow, you're right. The price difference isn't so bad, lol. I might already be rethinking this.
Yeah it's an alright deal. And since you got the titan for a good price, it'll be a bangin' computer. As for OC, I would absolutely set the multiplier for 44 or 45 on all 4 cores. There's no reason not to for free turbo performance.
I would keep the 2600k for the gf and build her a rig around your old stuff. There's no reason to buy another new chip when the 2600k is still pretty damn good.
I bought those HD 598s that were on sale at Amazon, and a new stereo for my work truck
Even so it's the one with 6gbs of VRAM right? It still has cuda as well depending on software support that may be better than openCL
So long as you didn't open the boxes you can probably return the stuff, X99 is going to be the way to go if you have money for it, or spend the money on a free-sync display
Depending on whether I return them I'll look into that. Yeah I think you're right. 2600k has been pretty good to me, with the right hardware it'll be good to her too.
Mainly because for the price you can get 970 or 390 that will basically outperform the Titan... Slightly, but they will... Honestly, 280X CF should blow the Titan out of the water... When the crossfire works... It's just like 295X2 and TitanX... When it works, the dual GPU just annihilates everything... But it's just as @Streetguru said... It all depends on software support. If you need CUDA, the Titan is just fine. Adobe CC - good. Sony Vegas - bad... Gaming - bad...
Returned both. I was really interested in the 5820, but I'm not ready for the DDR4 investment that will have to go with it. So better to just keep the money for now. Decided on using parts already on hand, either an fx-6300 or 4670k for the lady's build, or trading with my 2600k. Thoughts?
if you do rendering then upgrading from sandybridge to haswell (E) or Skylake would be worth it. Haswell and Skylake cpu´s feuture avx 2.0 which will definitely give a boost in video rendering. As far as gpu rendering goes, CUDA is still more widly supported then open CL. Unless you use Sony Vegas.
If you want a mix of a decent gaming rig and great productivity machine, then i would recommend X99 5820K in a heartbeat. Still a 4790K wont be a bad choice either.
Interesting. I will definitely look into it. She has a few large files for AutoCAD I'm sure we could test. We used it previously with crossfire and it was really solid performance, so I would be curious to see a difference with the GTX Titan.