Greets all!
Got a decent bonus from work and looking for your thoughts on the best possible $400-500 benching-related upgrade for me.
The objective is reap the most hwbot boints possible.
Some background....am a bit of a hw pig so have quite a bit already. Without covering stuff older than socket 775:
- 775: REX (plus a couple spares) and ~250 cpus
- 1155: MVE and ~4 cpus. Nothing super fast so far...2700k hits a hard wall @ 5.5GHz
- 2011: RIVE and a 3930k (this cpu is in my primary rig)
- boatloads of graphic cards
- plenty o' ram (great sticks for everything 1600 and up except no 1866)
For cooling...have single-stage phase change, a cascade and plenty of water cooling stuff.
Would like to put the 3930k under phase but need something decent in the primary if I want to free the cpu up for ss benching. It did ok under water (~5GHz), not sure how much higher it could go but it doesn't seem like a remarkable chip or anything.
I know Sandy is fine under phase but Ivy needs colder.
Think that the highest possible boint subs for me would be with a fast cpu under ss phase and a vga card under cascade but...?
So...whatcha think?
EDIT: Am not looking to go DICE or LN2 atm.
EDIT2: Maybe look for a 5.9-6GHz 2500k/2600k/2700k or a 55x+ 3930k or maybe a good 4930k? What about something from AMD's camp? Anything there worth the price of admission given that this upgrade's only objective is boints?
Got a decent bonus from work and looking for your thoughts on the best possible $400-500 benching-related upgrade for me.
The objective is reap the most hwbot boints possible.
Some background....am a bit of a hw pig so have quite a bit already. Without covering stuff older than socket 775:
- 775: REX (plus a couple spares) and ~250 cpus
- 1155: MVE and ~4 cpus. Nothing super fast so far...2700k hits a hard wall @ 5.5GHz
- 2011: RIVE and a 3930k (this cpu is in my primary rig)
- boatloads of graphic cards
- plenty o' ram (great sticks for everything 1600 and up except no 1866)
For cooling...have single-stage phase change, a cascade and plenty of water cooling stuff.
Would like to put the 3930k under phase but need something decent in the primary if I want to free the cpu up for ss benching. It did ok under water (~5GHz), not sure how much higher it could go but it doesn't seem like a remarkable chip or anything.
I know Sandy is fine under phase but Ivy needs colder.
Think that the highest possible boint subs for me would be with a fast cpu under ss phase and a vga card under cascade but...?
So...whatcha think?
EDIT: Am not looking to go DICE or LN2 atm.
EDIT2: Maybe look for a 5.9-6GHz 2500k/2600k/2700k or a 55x+ 3930k or maybe a good 4930k? What about something from AMD's camp? Anything there worth the price of admission given that this upgrade's only objective is boints?
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