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Thoughts? Find a review for it... I personally have no idea.
I would check on reviews of these things before you purchase them over the tried and true 212 Evo.
To be completely frank, you will be spending a lot of money for not much base gain. IMO, save your money up, and buy a completely new system with new architectures coming out. Yes a new gpu will help, but theres too much coming out very soon.
But he needs the threads, no?
Vish - What are you working on and what does it need? GPU horsepower or CPU horesepower? Both?
But he needs the threads, no?
Vish - What are you working on and what does it need? GPU horsepower or CPU horesepower? Both?
You say 'dead socket' like its suddenly going to keel over when Broadwell-E/Skylake refresh comes out. The same amount of money will NOT get him into Skylake or Haswell-E because he can't carry over a couple of parts (memory and motherboard). To that end, he would have to drop another $300+ (almost 43%) in the case of Skylake, get 5% more performance... or in the case of X99, Probably $325+ (46% - quad channel remember) and not get close to that in performance gains.
His upgrade yields him HT and a big clock increase currently.
So the main point here is, the i7 I picked out is a major improvement over the i5. That's ALL I need right now. It will render better because of the high default clock and HT. That's ALL I need right now. I can't do flashy yet. I only have the ability to buy what I NEED, which is an improvement in performance. I will give you credit, Bob, for suggesting Pascal. Unfortunately Skylake isn't enough of a jump over the 4790k to warrant me going to a platform I'd need to drop extra cash on.
You're ignoring the fact that ddr4 can be twice as fast. That 100% will make a difference in most rendering situations.