Is a new system with i7-3930K a bad idea?

In what you working an 3930k is a great improvement. That problems about you talking can be improved by bios updates. Buy a Asus or AsRock X79 mobo,because i heard the Gigabyte have some problems with X79 boards.

Get that, i7-3930K with 6 cores, any graphic program will scream, its that good.

Q9450 is no match. U may cut the times roughly by 1/3. Is it worth to u???

Yeah I read about the problems with Gigabyte boards, but I also read that there are general problems with x79?

I'd get ASUS mobo and if there will be any issue, it will be fixed by new BIOS version.

I would not worry about that.

if you decide to go that route wait for the 3820. will be in the "under" $300 range unless the on line vendors get greedy.

the post about the gigabyte boards. read somewhere they will have a life time warranty.

nikorr:
When you mention the cut of 1/3, that's compared to a 2600k?  

swifty_morgan:
Isn't the 3820 a quad core cpu that isn't supposed to be much faster than the 2600k?

No, in compare to your CPU : )

Hm really?   I was looking at some reviews of the i7-3930k and I saw some benchmarks from 3dmax where the i7-3930k was like 25% faster at rendering than a 2600k - then I would expect the performance increase to be quite a bit bigger when compared with my q9450?  

Well, I was making the avg. on all together. Video editing and photoshop will not give u that much advantage as 3D will.
Check this

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/11/14/intel-...

I don't know about Maya, but Photoshop rarely uses more than 6 cores (usually it uses even less, down to single-core for file operations).

Currently the only reasons to buy X79 are PCI 3.0 and quad-band memory support.

If you can wait another few months Ivy Bridge is around the corner.

Maya will utilize it-3D rendering will basically scale up to as many cores as you want.

swifty_morgan:
Isn't the 3820 a quad core cpu that isn't supposed to be much faster than the 2600k?[/quotemsg]


It's near the same. normally I wouldn't have suggested the new processor design because of the steep price. With the 3820 coming along I would consider it if building a new system. Motherboards will be more plentiful and drop in price and a build wouldn't be too extravagant for the money/performance. I would never pay a grand for a processor no matter what because in my mind they really aren't worth it.

I've read only positive reports of the 3930, unfortunately, though I can't find it anywhere.

Does anyone know where/when it will be available?

Ivy Bridge appears to be a yawner.....

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5276/intel-core-i7-3820-r...







I think you will find ya answers here....3960 vs 2600k

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=443

3960 vs 3820

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/523?vs=443

3820 vs 2600k

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/523?vs=287

For me it would depend on how much you have to spend if spending the extra 300 is worth it.

I am a Modeler and Texture Artist and I upgraded to a 2600k last summer, and I have thought about moving to a i7-3930k as well. But in reality the only thing that would be significantly improved is render times, and I don't render all that often and if it is going to be that long I do it over night.

So I dont see that much value in the platform past rendering compared to a 2600k like I have, which runs Maya and ZBrush and Photoshop super smoothly.

But for you the only difference in cost is really the $300 more for the CPU, and I think it would probably be worth it if you already have or could buy with it a:
IPS Color Calibrated Display
120GB+ SSD
Quality Wacom Tablet
GTX 560ti+ Graphics Card (Mainly for gaming, but I do like using CUDA in some apps)

If getting the 6 core means not having one of the above I wouldn't do it and wait for Ivy Bridge. But if you can have it all and a 6 core, go for it.

Any ideas how much faster (if anything?) a 3930k is vs. an Ivy Bridge?

According to the benchmarks on Anandtech it doesn't really look like the i7-3930k is a big improvement over a 2600k in terms of rendertime? In most of the 3d max renders it surprises me that the difference is so tiny in those charts?

stm1185: Yeah I'll be getting a ssd+a nice graphics card, and already own a nice Wacom tablet, so apart from the color calibration I got those things   Got a decent 22" IPS Dell monitor and another crappy 22" as secondary monitor.

I'm sure both systems would run everything smoothly, but I'm also going to be rendering quite a bit (not just overnight but lots of renders for tweaking and testing stuff), however, I'm a little unsure of how big the performance gain is actually going to be..