gameridgoeshere :
Hi, I've been wondering, should I buy a 2700k or wait for ivy bridge? (will be over clocking the hell out of either)
So what should I do, and what would you do?
Regards
Daniel
PS I will probably be buying an ATX motherboard by ASUS ROG for overclocking, what mobo would you buy?
For gaming, it is doubtful you would notice the difference from what you have now to an Ivy Bridge even if you got the 3770K. PCIe 3.0 won't make much of a difference because even today's fastest GPUs do not saturate a 16 lane PCIe 2.0 slot. In other words, today's GPUs are incapable of using PCIe 3.0's extra bandwidth. The PCIe 3.0 protocol is more efficient (in addition to being faster) and because of this you may experience a slight performance increase but it will probably not be enough to be noticeable.
That said, for video editing, if you want a noticeably faster machine than what you've got, then you should go for the I7-3930K or its much more expensive "X" brother. The two additional cores will result in a noticeable performance increase when editing video. Pair that with an ample supply of memory (supported by the X79) and you can build a machine that blows your current one out of the water (but only in video editing.) On the other hand, the X79 platform is definitely quite a bit pricier than the Z68/Z77 platforms but, it is available right now.
Conclusion, balance the pros and cons of each option and their costs. Only you can determine if the X79 platform would be a good investment for what you're doing. Ivy Bridge isn't worth the money considering what you already have.