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EnvymeRT

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I have the itch to build again ..... baby is due this week and I am going to need something to do instead of sit around the house when I am off from work. I have a 2500k OC'd on water to 4.8Ghz, I mostly game but do use Sony Vegas etc to render gaming clips for my youtube channel. Would it be worth the upgrade to get a 4970k ? I mostly just render video and go to bed as it isn't anything I need done for a job. Would it be worth upgrading? I have 780 Ti's in SLI and game at 2560 x 1440, also I was looking at the Fractal R4 gaming case to make my rig silent. The only other thing I was thinking of doing since I have a Corsair 600T was to get into water cooling and customizing my case. Not sure about water cooling my CPU/Vid cards etc. Any advice is greatly appreciated as I have been building computers for 15 years but never got into true modding/water cooling.
 
Just do it, once the baby is born your computer building days are over !

R4 is awesome!
 
Fractal r4 can support a 280mm rad in the front and a slim 240mm rad at the top, incase you want to go custom watercooling. Since you mostly render, the 4790k should be an excellent upgrade.

Congrats on the baby btw :).
 
Thanks and haha Entilza those are my thoughts exactly. My wife is going to want me not spending a dime on anything non baby. I am super excited but I think the baby could wear a new outfit everyday until shes like 4 years old already .
 
Anything lga1150 is a side grade at best if coming from Sandy Bridge or newer. You will get faster PCIe and some other minor improvements, but overall nothing to be wowed over if you are coming from Sandy Bridge...especially one that hits 4.8ghz.

If you are wanting a true upgrade, go with an LGA2011 setup. You may not get a chip that is faster in games, but the extra cores will help with any multi-threaded rendering software you might use or any future software you might use that is heavily threaded. In the end it might have a bit more longevity.
 
Ug .... not sure what I am going to do. I might just render when I go bed and keep the 2500k, I know I got an awesome OC going with my current set up. Not sure what I can do to upgrade though .... looks like my hobby might just be building for others and customizing my case.
 
I'm sort of in the same boat as you. I want to wait to see how the cheaper 6 core option will perform. Rumored price is $350 and I think that is something that is definitely worth the wait.

Side-bar: How do the 780ti's fair with the 2500k and PCIe-2.0? Any bottlenecking?

Edit: Just realized you want it for this week XD
 
I say wait. I also had the itch and was going to upgrade. But the truth is, that you will not experience an amount of improvement that is worth the upgrade. Probably will get 5% to 10% improvement tops.

Check out this thread on this very issue: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1825408

I'd say save you money and hold off on the CPU/mobo upgrade until we see what intel will unveil in the next few months.

Now to satisfy that itch. You should go ahead and do your custom loop (or cheaper AIO loop like I did) now since the custom loop will still work once you upgrade next year. (You'll still have the 780ti with blocks and the CPU blocks are usually universal.).

The Biggest thing about the noise your computer puts out is the fans and pumps. So don't hesitate to drop good money on great fans to keep your rig quiet. I use Noctua fan because I love the performance to noise ratio.

Since it'll be your first loop, look into the starter kits, or post what you are looking to do in the Watercooling section. People will give you some great advice.

I like the R4. I went with the Corsair 550d though. Both are great cases. But the big thing to remember if you do a custom loop in the r4 is that a loop looks cramped in that case!

Make sure whatever case you grab has room for your loop. My next case will probably be a corsair 540 as the loops i've seen in them look great and they have a lot of room on the back of the board for cable management and room to place your pump.

Check out how cool the loop looks in this case:
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Good luck and congratulations on the new baby!
 
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I have wanted to upgrade for at least a year or two now, nothing seems to be worth it, still holding out, I have had funds set to the side for a while now....Just can't see a reason to do it, holding out hopes the next line from Intel brings something to the table, if not, I am not sure what I will be doing, guess I will dump the money into video cards/monitor and 1TB+ SSDs.
 
BlueFireIce said:
I have wanted to upgrade for at least a year or two now, nothing seems to be worth it, still holding out, I have had funds set to the side for a while now....Just can't see a reason to do it, holding out hopes the next line from Intel brings something to the table, if not, I am not sure what I will be doing, guess I will dump the money into video cards/monitor and 1TB+ SSDs.
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Good idea. Get the monitors ready!
 
B!nd. said:
Good idea. Get the monitors ready!
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Indeed, mine is a cheap IPS anyway, and have been eying some ultrawide monitors and a new GPU to push it, even if I waited till we knew more about the next CPU line to buy it all, I would still have time to save the cash for a new CPU/MoBo by the time reviews are out on it.
 
If you're only gaming there is very little reason to upgrade, only worth it if you do things like video encoding. Otherwise, you'll just see at most a 10% increase for your $1000+ investment.
 
doug_7506 said:
I say wait. I also had the itch and was going to upgrade. But the truth is, that you will not experience an amount of improvement that is worth the upgrade. Probably will get 5% to 10% improvement tops.

Check out this thread on this very issue: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1825408

I'd say save you money and hold off on the CPU/mobo upgrade until we see what intel will unveil in the next few months.

Now to satisfy that itch. You should go ahead and do your custom loop (or cheaper AIO loop like I did) now since the custom loop will still work once you upgrade next year. (You'll still have the 780ti with blocks and the CPU blocks are usually universal.).

The Biggest thing about the noise your computer puts out is the fans and pumps. So don't hesitate to drop good money on great fans to keep your rig quiet. I use Noctua fan because I love the performance to noise ratio.

Since it'll be your first loop, look into the starter kits, or post what you are looking to do in the Watercooling section. People will give you some great advice.

I like the R4. I went with the Corsair 550d though. Both are great cases. But the big thing to remember if you do a custom loop in the r4 is that a loop looks cramped in that case!

Make sure whatever case you grab has room for your loop. My next case will probably be a corsair 540 as the loops i've seen in them look great and they have a lot of room on the back of the board for cable management and room to place your pump.

Check out how cool the loop looks in this case:
2e5qwes.jpg


Good luck and congratulations on the new baby!
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Thanks and WOW that case looks AMAZING!
 
BlueFireIce said:
Indeed, mine is a cheap IPS anyway, and have been eying some ultrawide monitors and a new GPU to push it, even if I waited till we knew more about the next CPU line to buy it all, I would still have time to save the cash for a new CPU/MoBo by the time reviews are out on it.
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I have a Dell Ultrasharp 27inch, and a QNIX panel. I like the Qnix a tad more atm due to the higher refresh rate. Yeah I don't know what to do but Doug has me itching to do a custom loop!
 
EnvymeRT said:
I have a Dell Ultrasharp 27inch, and a QNIX panel. I like the Qnix a tad more atm due to the higher refresh rate. Yeah I don't know what to do but Doug has me itching to do a custom loop!
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Haha. I posted this not too long ago. I have the itch BAD right now. :D:D
 
So you're having a baby and you want to invest in computer now? Unless your wife/girlfriend is amazing you won't have any free time to spend on it.
 
ssnyder28 said:
So you're having a baby and you want to invest in computer now? Unless your wife/girlfriend is amazing you won't have any free time to spend on it.
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My wife is awesome, any hobby that will keep me at home. She said she wants me to play games/due computer stuff for an hour or two a day. Shes going to stay at home with the baby and I work. She is amazing :)
 
i upgraded from a 2500k to dual Xeons X5675 on EVGA SR-2. That`s 12 cores at 4.2GHz at, so far, 48GB. I am still facing the challenge of making 96GB work on this mobo, but the alternative was to wait for Haswell-E and X99 chipset.

People scared me about how trick te SR-2 would be to overclock, but i just loosed memory timings to 11-12-12, memory speed to 800MHz, choose 1887 memory strap and presto...BCLK increased like a charm to 200:D. As i only run one VGA, a 750w PSU just 140mm deep did the trick. The case has room for another 750w PSU if need it in the future.I pretty much doubt that i7 5960X can beat my rig.

Either wait for haswell-E or go for EVGA SR-2. SR-2 would cost less but draw much more power, on the other hand, as it is almost mandatory liquid cooling on both CPUs, you will enjoy the assembly more.:cool:
 
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