Hi guys,
A colleague of mine offered an interesting proposition - he would give me his 5820k/board/ram in exchange for my 4770k combo (specs in sig). This seems like a no brainer, but here's the catch - the 2011 motherboard is a workstation board that apparently offers no overclocking functionality. I would have to run the 5820k StOCK.
Gaming is my only focus with this machine - my work PC that I do data analysis with is either the Xeon in the lab, or my 4960x.
Intuitively, I know the overclocked 4770k will be faster in current games, but I was wondering whether the 5820k was better suited for newer releases, and whether the stock speed (3.3Ghz) would be holding it back in older titles.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
A colleague of mine offered an interesting proposition - he would give me his 5820k/board/ram in exchange for my 4770k combo (specs in sig). This seems like a no brainer, but here's the catch - the 2011 motherboard is a workstation board that apparently offers no overclocking functionality. I would have to run the 5820k StOCK.
Gaming is my only focus with this machine - my work PC that I do data analysis with is either the Xeon in the lab, or my 4960x.
Intuitively, I know the overclocked 4770k will be faster in current games, but I was wondering whether the 5820k was better suited for newer releases, and whether the stock speed (3.3Ghz) would be holding it back in older titles.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.