i7 4770K vs i7 4930K.

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I'm a web designer, primarily using Adobe Photoshop, DreamWeaver, InDesign, Edge and CorelDRAW. I also game often but its mostly casual. I have a budget of about $1200 extendable up to $1500 and am recycling the display from my current rig. The planned configuration is (MoBo based on CPU), Galaxy GTX 780Ti HOF, 16 gigs of Vengeance and an 800W PSU. The only thing that's left to decide is the CPU. I want to know will the superior 4930K make a practical difference over the 4770K now, or later down the lane? Is it worth investing the extra $300 and going for a 770Ti instead? If I go for the 4770K, I've decided on the Z97 Asus Maximus VII and the Asus Sabertooth X79 if I go for the 4930K. Are the choices good?
 
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For that applications go for the 4770k. 4930k is for multi thread applications like 3D Studio or video editors. Photoshop I think it only uses 1 core.

770 for games is ok, 780ti is a lot more expensive (I have one but I bought it for GPU rendering in 3D Studio (and Games XD)). For work, 770 is very good.

For Games 4770k is one of the best CPUs (I belive...).
 
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I will recommend waiting off on either one, as Haswell refresh is coming soon with new CPU's. The 4770k is great for beginning to mid-high end software, but if you want to use more than one of those applications at a time, use the 4930k.
 
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Well, I was searching for info about multy threading in CS6. CS6 uses much better the cores of a CPU, more cores is better for this program.

If you can pay for the 4930k go for it.

But if you will be using only 16GB, may be the Sabertooth is too expensive. What about going for X79 with only 4 RAM sockets? like the Asrock X79 Extreme4 or Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3... they are a lot cheaper.
 
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A 4770K, unquestionably. The 4930K would be better suited for 3D modelling or heavy duty encoding tasks. The 4930K offers nothing to a web developer or a gamer that the 4770K cant better. The 4930K is based on the Ivy Bridge architecture, while the 4770K is the newer Haswell architecture with full AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions v2.0) support, which is far more relevant to a web designer/developer than having 4 more threads or a higher memory bandwidth.
 
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May 11, 2014 11:30:04 AM

Well, I was searching for info about multy threading in CS6. CS6 uses much better the cores of a CPU, more cores is better for this program.
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Adobe has been offering OpenCL support for quite some time. If your system has a supported discreet GPU then CS6 prefers it over the CPU by default.
 
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