On an i7 970. Is $200 for an i7 990x worth the price?

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On an i7 970. Is $200 for an i7 990x worth the price?

  • Yes. Presumption of no OC.

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Have some spare cash.
Not ready for a full system upgrade.
Does it make sense, at the given price point to "max" my current system (see signature)?
 
Can't you get cheaper Xeon's for that platform that do well anyway? The 970 is already a 6-core though right? What do you expect to gain from a 990x? Also a 6-core?

I'd be saving to replace the platform personally... X58 was my first major ground-up build I put together, excluding random-part builds/used part builds prior. Great platform, but definitely aged now. I'd just be looking at max OC on your current CPU, or upgrade the entire platform. (Maybe wait til June for Ryzen 3000 series??)
 
Nehalem was a decent overclocker if you didn't mind the wattage.

I wouldn't throw any more money at that platform though. $200 gets you a modern CPU that runs rings around it (just have to have all the rest of the setup to go with it).
 
Should still be able to overclock with the BCLK though. It's a bit trickier as there is more to look out for when overclocking that way, but still doable.
 
Que? Really? The 920, 930, 960 all overclocked? I think my 930 was 191x21? for 4ghz. As my blck x multi. So you can't change the multi at all?
 
$200 for 246mhz? Nah man. Nah.

Push your BCLK and get your i7-970 into the mid to high 4ghz range.
 
Spending 200 dollars is dam foolish...I sold my 5670x to a forum member including 12gb ddr3 1600 ram for like 25 bucks (give away)....of course several years ago the value was different as that's about what I spent on the cpu on eBay at the time

Hold on to your money and save up for 570 chipset and 7nm amd cpu around june
 
The 970 doesn't OC though.

Look up old X58 Overclocking guides. You didn't us Multiplier exclusively to OC like we do now, You use BCLK.

4ghz on the 970 should be pretty easy.

990x in your case is a total waste.
 
Xeon for x58 as a cheap upgrade, but I wouldn't spend much. You can do all core turbo on many with Intel software. I think I ran an x5675 at 4ghz. But if you have 200 to spend I would save up a little more. You can get a ryzen 1700, motherboard, and 16gb of ram for less than 400, and would own anything on x58.

I just added a ryzen 1700x cpu, motherboard, and 16gb to my cart on microcenter. $281 with tax. Should be about twice as fast for all core tasks, and has a great upgrade path.
 
Yeah that chip definitely OC's, 4ghz was pretty standard on the 4c/8t chips. Just have to do it the old fashioned way.

I agree with everyone else don't bother to dump more money into that platform, then $200 is going to net you very little performance upgrade.

Put that $200 towards a new setup.
 
I had a 970 @ 4.4Ghx via Max turbo multi and BLK clocking. Granted it was on a top tier X58 board Asus Rampage III dark but you should be able to break 4Ghz fairly easy. If power isn't an issue feed that sucker some voltage.
 
I have had mine since 2010 = CX 5850 with i7 - 930 and it has ran a lot of Radeons for me in iRacing Sims with Eyefinity , So I did the Xeon x5660 and Antec Kuher around 2014-15 and then molt balled for Ryzen 1600 and now I am back with my X58 as I added $30 SSD and installed Windows 10 64Bit and a RX 570 8Gb $149 . so that give me everything needed to do HDMI 2.0 and all of AMD's tech with in the video card and I was in luck that my board had 6Gb sata 3 for the SDD .

I plan to keep it so I will be adding memory as I only have 6Gb in Triple Channel but I like how it still games and I have no issues pushing even CX 570's as I never had that kind of gpu power to test PCI express 2.0 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/19001717 , my Xeon use to do 4.4 but I ran it at 4.1 all the time and I will be bring it back up soon as I give it some run time .
 
Get a good cooler and overclock that thing via bclk. Also overclock the RAM. the X58 system will generally do around DDR3-2000 without too much trouble without really hurting your CPU overclock.
 
I just upgraded from an i7-920 oc'd to 3.8Ghz to a w3680 for $50 that is oc'd (so far) to 4.2Ghz and have seen a welcome fps improvement in games (I game at 4k on a 1080ti). You can get the w3680s (i7-980x as I understand it) for around $50 from Chinese cpu/part sales sites. I got one for $50 from a HardForum member.
 
If you really want an unlocked multiplier, pick up a W3680 Xeon CPU.

It's the same exact thing as the i7 980X. W3690 is i7 990X.

W3680 is around 45, W3690 is around 70.
 
Just my thoughts.... Not worth it, unless you have a specific need due to some software/license being tied to an existing system.

You can get later generation Xeon's with more cores/threads or even later gen I5 or I7 that out-perform it for less $$. Although, you may then need to buy another mobo if you're already sitting on the mobo for the 990X.
 
You can get a r5 1600 and board and ram for about $200 these days lol. Just yesterday newegg had a combo for a Gigabyte ga-ax370 gaming 3 + 1600 for about $135, plus microcenter has about the same all the time...


Hell no to OP
 
Get a X5675 and overclock by increasing the fsb. It is a bargain on ebay. It has 95w tdp so a good ovc candidate, 4.0 ghz easily doable. Your 970 has 130w tdp. Applying the latest bios prior to update is a must.
 
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