- Jul 10, 2013
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I'm able to purchase the Rampage black X79 for $340 from my friend's work, he helped me get a deal on it new; so it's only $10 more than the Formula VII with the watch dogs bundled or $~$35 more than the regular formula VII with no game, and the black edition comes with assasin creed iv as well.
The CPU's are also the same price, ~$320. The 4790K has higher stock clock at 4.0 vs 3.7 on the 4820, but they're both 4 core/8 thread cpu's, and the 4820k has 10mb cache vs 8, has 40 pci lanes so it can do 4 way sli and since it's lga 2011 it has a soldered die instead of internal thermal paste so it keeps ~10 degree C cooler temps overall.
I'm going to be putting it in a Corsair 900D with my gigabyte G1 GTX970 and running a corsair H110 with it for now then upgrading to a custom water loop with ek blocks for cpu/gpu etc.. eventually.
So which would you reccomend? They're so close in price with my "friend discount" and the black edition comes with more features and i could probably snag a used 4930K or 4960X on the cheap later this year too. But both of them look very very nice asthetically, although the black edition fits my black and white theme a bit better. But the Formula would still look good since i'm getting an Apogee XL cpu waterblock that will have a custom ROG logo for the LED on it once i put in the water loop so it'd look fine too. Usually the reason people don't reccomende "X" platforms is the higher cost, so i figured if they're virtually the same price then why not go for it right? It'd be closer to the performance of an X99 Rampage V extreme but with much cheaper DDR3 ram.
The CPU's are also the same price, ~$320. The 4790K has higher stock clock at 4.0 vs 3.7 on the 4820, but they're both 4 core/8 thread cpu's, and the 4820k has 10mb cache vs 8, has 40 pci lanes so it can do 4 way sli and since it's lga 2011 it has a soldered die instead of internal thermal paste so it keeps ~10 degree C cooler temps overall.
I'm going to be putting it in a Corsair 900D with my gigabyte G1 GTX970 and running a corsair H110 with it for now then upgrading to a custom water loop with ek blocks for cpu/gpu etc.. eventually.
So which would you reccomend? They're so close in price with my "friend discount" and the black edition comes with more features and i could probably snag a used 4930K or 4960X on the cheap later this year too. But both of them look very very nice asthetically, although the black edition fits my black and white theme a bit better. But the Formula would still look good since i'm getting an Apogee XL cpu waterblock that will have a custom ROG logo for the LED on it once i put in the water loop so it'd look fine too. Usually the reason people don't reccomende "X" platforms is the higher cost, so i figured if they're virtually the same price then why not go for it right? It'd be closer to the performance of an X99 Rampage V extreme but with much cheaper DDR3 ram.
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