2700K vs. 3570K

[NickM]

Would I have gained anything going with the 3570K on a Z77 board with a single GTX660ti?
The 2700 is running at 4.2 now, but I have not played with it-Pretty sure it will do 4.5 with fine tuning.

Nick

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What are you looking for gains in?

What's the rest of the system? (Like in my signature)

 

[NickM]

Here it is:

Motherboard --------------- MSI Z77A G45 gaming
Processor ------------------ Intel 2700K 965 BE
CPU Cooling --------------- Noctua NH-U12P 92mm
Video ----------------------- MSI GTX660ti PE
Storage -------------------- 256 Corsair Neutron + 2 640 GB WD Blacks Raid 0
Power ---------------------- TT Toughpower XT 875W
Memory -------------------- 8GB Corsair Vengeance

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Here it is:

Motherboard --------------- MSI Z77A G45 gaming
Processor ------------------ Intel 2700K 965 BE
CPU Cooling --------------- Noctua NH-U12P 92mm
Video ----------------------- MSI GTX660ti PE
Storage -------------------- 256 Corsair Neutron + 2 640 GB WD Blacks Raid 0
Power ---------------------- TT Toughpower XT 875W
Memory -------------------- 8GB Corsair Vengeance

That helps!

Again though, what are you looking for gains in?

 

[Janus67]

You would likely notice little to not difference between the two, unless there is a feature that you are wanting that Ivy offers that SB does not.

 

[NickM]

The current system runs very well.
At the time that I purchased the board and CPU, the 3570 was available for $40 more-just wanted verification that I made the right choice.
Thanks guys!

 

[Theocnoob]

Id look into a better cpu cooler like an nhd14 and push that cpu to 4.9 or so.

 

[Wam]

Probably no need to change the cooler, just put a couple 120mm Noctua SP120 quiet/Corsair NF12's fans on the U12P (instead of the 92mm fan you have now) and see how high you can go on ~1.35v. I suspect you'll get 4.6-4.7Ghz without too much effort. Plus you'll have a quieter system.

I had a 2600k with the same cooler for a while and ran it at 4.8Ghz with 1.32v. I changed the cooler only to run it at 5Ghz with 1.41v

 

[manu2b]

^[email protected]/1.32v is golden. Most of themj need 1.4/1.45 to reach this freq. Lucky you!

What everyone else say: little to no gain.

 

[Wam]

^[email protected]/1.32v is golden. Most of themj need 1.4/1.45 to reach this freq. Lucky you!

What everyone else say: little to no gain.

Yes it was golden! Ran 5Ghz 24/7 no problem as well. It only made sense to part with it to get my current rig as I use A LOT of fully multithreaded programs and I get ~30% improvement over the 2600k @ 5Ghz

There really is not much point to go from an 2500k/2600k/2700k @ ~4.5Ghz+ (which the vast majority will do) to even Haswell.

 

[Theocnoob]

There really is not much point to go from an 2500k/2600k/2700k @ ~4.5Ghz+ (which the vast majority will do) to even Haswell.

Exactly. Anybody with Sandybridge has no reason to upgrade unless they do heavily multithreaded stuff. In that case a 4930K is a decent upgrade.