It's a pretty big jump. You're on a 45nm Penryn-derived architecture now,
and there are two major architecture jumps ("tocks" - Nehalem and Sandy
Bridge) between you and the 3930K. Benchmarks would probably be 3x or more,
including the 2 core advantage.
LGA2011/X79 is an interesting platform. 1155/7-series is probably a better
bet UNLESS you need 6 cores (1155 tops out at 4) OR you need lots of PCI
Express slots (in my case, GPU + 2x RAID + multi-port GbE). There are no Ivy
Bridge 22nm parts for LGA2011 yet, and there may never be. There's
speculation that Intel may not do a 1P IB-E refresh and may wait for
Haswell, but we don't know for sure.
It's not a bad time to buy on either side--IB-E on LGA2011, if it happens,
probably won't be this year, and IB on LGA1155 is a strong performer. I
don't think that native USB3 is a dealbreaker.
Greg
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Subject: Re: [H] Prime95
>And the answer is yes. I ran my 2.4GHz C2Q at 3.6GHz--a healthy
>overclock that still met my stability needs. I now run my Ci7-970
>(6-core) 3.2GHz at
>4.3GHz--
Greg, I have been thinking about upgrading my current Q9650 on a Asus
Maximum Formula II, 16GB of Patriot DDR2 800 setup with a new motherboard,
ram and processor. Specifically an Intel I7 3930K and probably a Asus P9X79
Deluxe board with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3. I have retired all my old
desktops and I am down to a single workstation that does everything for me
so I can use the six cores.
You run a six core CPU...comparing stock speeds, what kind of % increase can
I expect from my Q9650? Would I be better off waiting on an Ivy Bridge CPU?
Right now the only thing I see useful to me with Ivy Bridge is USB3 support.
Any thoughts, comments, warnings appreciated.
