clayton006
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I'll try and keep this brief...
So my previous 3930k bit the dust last year, and with my protection plan from a retailer I was able to upgrade to a 4930k. Great!
About 6 months ago my ASRock extreme x79 extreme 11 took a dive (which I find out later may not have actually been the case). Since the RMA process took about two weeks. I took my Haswell system ([email protected] - Asus Maximus VI Extreme) and put it in my water cooled case with my Titans so I could still play games in the meantime. After I got my ASRock board back I decided to leave the systems like they were as I didn't want to fool around with another mobo / cpu / storage swap between systems.
I'm now thinking that I may be losing out on some gaming performance. In my 4930k system I have more memory (32GB Installed), more memory bandwidth, two more cores, slightly less IPC (but I can clock at the same speed as my haswell easily), and more PCI-E lanes.
About PCI-E lanes, both motherboards have PLX switches on them. The x79 uses two of them to give 16x to each slot (and a dedicated 8 lanes to the LSI Raid). The z87 board uses one PLX switch to give me up to 4-way SLI period.
The z87 Haswell system is newer tech, faster IPC, "seems" to run games at roughly the same speed, less memory total, less memory bandwidth.
Question:
Do you think it would be worth the hassle to move my 4930k system back to the water cooled components (my 3 Titans, CPU water cooler) and would I see any benefit from that? If I turn my page file off I know that I will see a benefit in games (due to the fact that a lot of games I play at 4k go past the committed size of 16GB ram pretty quick).
Thoughts?
So my previous 3930k bit the dust last year, and with my protection plan from a retailer I was able to upgrade to a 4930k. Great!
About 6 months ago my ASRock extreme x79 extreme 11 took a dive (which I find out later may not have actually been the case). Since the RMA process took about two weeks. I took my Haswell system ([email protected] - Asus Maximus VI Extreme) and put it in my water cooled case with my Titans so I could still play games in the meantime. After I got my ASRock board back I decided to leave the systems like they were as I didn't want to fool around with another mobo / cpu / storage swap between systems.
I'm now thinking that I may be losing out on some gaming performance. In my 4930k system I have more memory (32GB Installed), more memory bandwidth, two more cores, slightly less IPC (but I can clock at the same speed as my haswell easily), and more PCI-E lanes.
About PCI-E lanes, both motherboards have PLX switches on them. The x79 uses two of them to give 16x to each slot (and a dedicated 8 lanes to the LSI Raid). The z87 board uses one PLX switch to give me up to 4-way SLI period.
The z87 Haswell system is newer tech, faster IPC, "seems" to run games at roughly the same speed, less memory total, less memory bandwidth.
Question:
Do you think it would be worth the hassle to move my 4930k system back to the water cooled components (my 3 Titans, CPU water cooler) and would I see any benefit from that? If I turn my page file off I know that I will see a benefit in games (due to the fact that a lot of games I play at 4k go past the committed size of 16GB ram pretty quick).
Thoughts?