DangerousDonald
n00b
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2016
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It amazes me how little CPU progress there has been in the past 5 years.
Anyways, I have a 3930k that does 4.5ghz no problem, or even more with voltage/temps higher than I'd like. Every time I thought I'd upgrade, it turned out that the next generation of chips would be bad overclockers and the top potential would not be much better than what I already had.
I'm wondering if now the accumulation of several generations of performance gains has made it worth it. The problem is that it's hard to tell from reviews how my much older chip at that clock speed performs against an OCed 6900k.
Right now I have a Rampage IV Extreme still in my build, and two GTX 1080s incoming. Obviously I'd go to new memory/motherboard also.
This will be a pure gaming rig running games at 4K minimum, sometimes also at 7860x1600 which has even more pixels.
I am not necessarily in a rush to get rid of the guts of my current build (other than the incoming GPU upgrade) because this motherboard and CPU have been so stable and reliable and trouble free.
Is it finally time to switch to something newer though? PCIE 3.0 support is not necessarily a major selling point because I have been using the hack to enable it on the Rampage IV for years already with my previous 3 Titan build.
Anyways, I have a 3930k that does 4.5ghz no problem, or even more with voltage/temps higher than I'd like. Every time I thought I'd upgrade, it turned out that the next generation of chips would be bad overclockers and the top potential would not be much better than what I already had.
I'm wondering if now the accumulation of several generations of performance gains has made it worth it. The problem is that it's hard to tell from reviews how my much older chip at that clock speed performs against an OCed 6900k.
Right now I have a Rampage IV Extreme still in my build, and two GTX 1080s incoming. Obviously I'd go to new memory/motherboard also.
This will be a pure gaming rig running games at 4K minimum, sometimes also at 7860x1600 which has even more pixels.
I am not necessarily in a rush to get rid of the guts of my current build (other than the incoming GPU upgrade) because this motherboard and CPU have been so stable and reliable and trouble free.
Is it finally time to switch to something newer though? PCIE 3.0 support is not necessarily a major selling point because I have been using the hack to enable it on the Rampage IV for years already with my previous 3 Titan build.