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i7 2700k or FX-8150? Please help me decide

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Your end overclock on air will roughly be the same if you plan on reasonable 24/7 voltage and stability - around 4.5-4.8ghz.
You might get the same overclock at 0.01v or 0.02v less with the 2700k, but that will probably be about it.
So buy a 2600k now or wait a month or two for the 2700k to arrive - maybe you'll pay a little less or maybe the same.
That's about it.

Or buy a proven used 2600k in a month or two when the 2700k arrives and the die hard benchers will be selling their "slower" chips...
 
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I would get a 2600k and then wait for ivy bridge if i was in your position. Me personally i might get a 2500k and just overclock that, the reason why is the 2500k is on special for £155 and the 2600k is £230-240

Ivy is compatible.
 

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I would get a 2600k and then wait for ivy bridge if i was in your position. Me personally i might get a 2500k and just overclock that, the reason why is the 2500k is on special for £155 and the 2600k is £230-240

2600k have HT though, which the OP might benefit from.
 
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Well if money's not a problem and you have time then the high-end SB-E will do great. Rumours place a middle model 6 core at around 600$. Anyway if you want to go now and spare some money then the 2600K and Z68 is the best solution. 2700K is the same as 2600K with higher stock clocks (maybe a better overclocker?). Anyway, with reasonable coolling solutions you can expect to use your CPU between 4.5-4.8 GHz. Below 4.5 really all you need is cheap aftermarket HSF and it's atainable in 99% of the cases.
 
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2600k have HT though, which the OP might benefit from.

"I would get a 2600k and then wait for ivy bridge if i was in your position"

That's what i said, they said money wasnt a big issue so a 2600k is a good idea. I dont really see the point in going 2700k and then ivy bridge later. 2600k will clock good anyway so no real point in getting a 2700k.
 
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if you got little bit time wait for sandy-e benchmarks and then decide.
and if money is no prob i would prefer one strong gpu instead two smaller ones.
bulldozer just for benching fun.
 

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if the machine is 90%+ for gaming, get a 2500K. if you use heavily multithreaded encoding or editing applications, the 2600K could be worth the extra scratch.
 

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Here's some info.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/32072-intel-readying-core-i7-2700k-rain-amds-fx-parade/

I don't mean to hijack this discussion, but I was thinking about building an i7-2600k/Z68 rig later this year, some time before Black Friday/Cyber Monday and Christmas. This is what I put together -
Once You Know, You Newegg
I'll be upgrading from the system I have listed in my Specs profile here. It's costly to say the least, but I could save a lot of money by dropping the sound card (for now), buying a Cooler Master Full Tower ATX case instead, and keeping my current 23.6" Asus LCD monitor.
Oh, and I'll be reusing my GTX 560 Ti SLI setup from my current rig, too.

But anyway, my suggestion to you would be to wait a few more weeks, see if i7-2700k is significantly better in terms of performance vs. price, if not, just go with the i7-2600k, and upgrade in a year and a half or so once Ivy Bridge is cheap enough.

Dude, this sounds like the perfect subject for starting a thread. Trust me, people will dive in to help you. :cool:

And welcome to TPU. :toast:
 

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i7-2700K is around $360 when it releases. Don't expect it to replace i7-2600K from its $320-ish price point.

So your choice would be neither - i7-2600K should do.
 
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basically- skip faildozer.

I hate to say is, since I've had many an amd part in the past, I wanted them to "win" but... faildozer is fail.
 

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basically- skip faildozer.

I hate to say is, since I've had many an amd part in the past, I wanted them to "win" but... faildozer is fail.

How so would it be a failure? In most synthetic benchmarks its between i7 875k and 2600k. You know how much a 2600k is in price, but yet the 8150 for example is ~25% cheaper. Please explain to me how it is fail.
 

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2600k, and the Z68 set (ignore the P67...)
 

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2600K, Bulldozer's performance is really erratic right now, Windows 8 might improve the situation, but as of now its an inconsistent performer. On good days/apps, you can equal 2600K, on bad days its even worse than 1100T, the chip its supposed to replace.
 
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2600K, Bulldozer's performance is really erratic right now, Windows 8 might improve the situation, but as of now its an inconsistent performer. On good days/apps, you can equal 2600K, on bad days its even worse than 1100T, the chip its supposed to replace.

Yeah, that.
 

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why not i7-2600k?
almost all of 2600k+z68 chip can go over 5ghz..
iam running it on 4.4ghz with 20$ cooler
why need spend more for only 0.1Ghz.
 
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If you want to wait, and you want a good processor for video editing, X79 for sure. Single threaded performance might be the same as SB, but for true multi-threaded that can use all 12 threads, it is well worth it IMO.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-3960x-x79-performance,3026-11.html

The i7 3930K Seems like the $/perf sweetspot. The i7 3960X might be very expensive because it is an Xtreme processor and has 15MB cache instead of 12MB that the 3930K has. The quad-channel RAM might hlp as well.

My vote is i7 3930K
 
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2500k, more then any man needs
 
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the 2700k may have better intel graphics also... which are used when encoding iirc...
 
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I'm still leaning towards the 2700k. I know it's not much of a difference but I just want this next CPU to last for awhile with great speeds. Just hope the 2700k comes out VERY soon or shortly after release of BF3... I want to play that game smooth as possible.:toast:
 

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How so would it be a failure? In most synthetic benchmarks its between i7 875k and 2600k. You know how much a 2600k is in price, but yet the 8150 for example is ~25% cheaper. Please explain to me how it is fail.

And 2500k is much cheaper, cheaper than the 8120 in fact so yeah BD is fail. I'm talking about Newegg, because most people tend to be from US, but if you want a real horror story check the prices in Spain:

http://www.alternate.es/html/catego...ocesadores+(CPU)&l2=Sobremesa&l3=Socket+AM3+&
http://www.alternate.es/html/catego...ocesadores+(CPU)&l2=Sobremesa&l3=Socket+1155&

Basically:

8150 == 265 € vs 299 € == 2600k (fair? being kind)
8120 == 215 € vs 203 € == 2500k (ownage)
6100 == 183 € vs 180 € == 2400 (massive pwnage)

Also when it launched and for a couple of months after launch the 2500k costed 180 € (I bought mine at that price) and the 2600k costed 250€. From here it's been up, up, up everytime that more info was revealed about BD because it was becoming clear how hard it would fail.

Also a 1090T BE costs 165 € so it pwns Buldozer over and over for the price.

Just because Intel is complacent with their prices and want to enjoy a much much much higher profit for every CPU they sell, that doesn't make BD fail any less, in fact in my eyes it's a clear sign of BD's failure. BD's die is 60% bigger than SB and SB has a GPU integrated, it should be at least half of that difference, 30% faster than SB. I don't know how big SB-E is but I don't see it being bigger, and sure will rape BD in multi-threaded apps.
 
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BF3 release date is 8 days away IIRC.

LGA 2011 is coming out Nov 15th apparently. If you wait anywhere near then, I'd suggest to just wait and see what 2011 offers
 
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My "failzozer" comment was that it was being billed by the hype machine as the next best processor since sliced bread, given also the wait (wasn't this supposed to be out MONTHS ago?)

According to all the reviews I've seen, it sits in between a 4 core part and a 4 core part with HT, despite being 8 core.

From the spin-masters at AMD, it was supposed to beat Intel in performance. It didn't.
 

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Thank you and actually that is something I completely forgot about with the FX-8150 on how it doesn't support HT... which is something I would definitely need.
You don't need HyperThreading when you have 8 physical cores compared to 4 physical and 4 logical cores.

Even so, FX-8150 does poorly at video encoding compared to 2#00K:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/12/amd-fx-8150-review/7

In fact, the 2600K beats the FX-8150 in every metric (except idle power consumption). The 2500K beats it in most metrics.
 

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Pretty sure the only difference between 8120 & 8150 is stock clock speeds. Its like comparing the 2600k & 2700k. Either way I see your point. My whole thing is I'm sick and tired of hearing the bd is fail routine.
 
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