I tried this in another forum and of course was accused by people who either just purchased the z68 platform or have owned it of spreading false information
This is NOT intended to insult anyones system in any way.
It is clearly for the educational purposes of the screen shots themselves and in that I will leave any further comment past this first post out unless a question is asked. Please, If you want a benchmark ran with both systems you will have to hold on until I get a new X79 board in. I blew up my board by condensation build up while putting it on Phase cooling.
In every benchmark the 2600k has 3 EVGA Superclocked GTX570s and the 3930k Has 2 EVGA Superclocked GTX570s. In some cases the 2600k is sped up 100mhz more then the 3930k.
Please note that Reviews are subjective to the hardware they are written about. They are Not the law when different variables are in play. I see many people posting information based soley on reviews. One thing I have found to be true, The X79 has more bandwidth and can handle 2 GPUs better thenthe Z68 can handle 3. My Z68X-UD7 has 2x16 lanes(one of the ONLY Z68 boards with 32 lanes) and with 3 GPUs is running in X16 X8 X8 whereas my X79 with 2 GPUs is running in X16 X16. I do think that there is no way to get around the fact that the 3930k with 2 GPUs is a better gaming machine then a Z68 with 3 GPUs. It runs smoother and it is wide open. And there is a noticeable difference between the two when running games. This is my opinion having used both playing games such as,Tribes Vengeance, Tribes Ascend, Crysis 2 And Portal 2. Those are the 4 games I have played on Both systems and though the 2600k is absolutely smooth as can be with never even a hint of stutter in all 4 games with 3 cards, The 3930k seems a bit more fluidly smooth and does get More FPS at the same clock speeds with 2 cards then the 2600k does with 3. CPU and Chipset does have a lot to do with Utilization of Graphics. I cant explain why it seems more fluid but it does.
Now, Do not get me wrong here, I am not dissing the 2600k. I own the system. I am just saying that for those who do not haggle about price/performance ratios and who want to Run SLI or TRI SLI, The X79 is the best platform available for this.
3930k 4.1ghz 2 570 3Dmark 06 I messed up when taking this screen shot and changed all the CPUz shots so the speed cannot be seen but it is 4.1ghz
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2600k 4.2ghz 3 570 3Dmark 06
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3930k 4.4ghz 2 570 3Dmark 11
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2600k 4.4ghz 3 570 3Dmark 11
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Let me make clear to everyone who reads this that some things in this post are my opinion. I also want to say that the 3Dmark11 Shots are skewed results because
I did not know when I ran it that I needed to INPUT the amount of cards running so it really severly messed up the physics and combined score. I will redo them once I get my X79 system up and running.
More to come as soon as I bench the 2600k at higher speeds. I already have the 3930k results as I benched them just this past week all week long.
I am doing the 2600k Benchmarks over again even though I have a ton from Jan. and Feb because there has been patches made on these benchmark programs and the video drivers were different since the beginning of the year and I want to use the same exact version for each set up along with the same exact video drivers.
EDIT: Please dont hijack my thread with arguements about why I am wrong here. If anything is wrong it is not me. I simply loaded the systems and ran the benchmarks. I cannot tell the benchmark what numbers to throw out when they are completed
This is NOT intended to insult anyones system in any way.
It is clearly for the educational purposes of the screen shots themselves and in that I will leave any further comment past this first post out unless a question is asked. Please, If you want a benchmark ran with both systems you will have to hold on until I get a new X79 board in. I blew up my board by condensation build up while putting it on Phase cooling.
In every benchmark the 2600k has 3 EVGA Superclocked GTX570s and the 3930k Has 2 EVGA Superclocked GTX570s. In some cases the 2600k is sped up 100mhz more then the 3930k.
Please note that Reviews are subjective to the hardware they are written about. They are Not the law when different variables are in play. I see many people posting information based soley on reviews. One thing I have found to be true, The X79 has more bandwidth and can handle 2 GPUs better thenthe Z68 can handle 3. My Z68X-UD7 has 2x16 lanes(one of the ONLY Z68 boards with 32 lanes) and with 3 GPUs is running in X16 X8 X8 whereas my X79 with 2 GPUs is running in X16 X16. I do think that there is no way to get around the fact that the 3930k with 2 GPUs is a better gaming machine then a Z68 with 3 GPUs. It runs smoother and it is wide open. And there is a noticeable difference between the two when running games. This is my opinion having used both playing games such as,Tribes Vengeance, Tribes Ascend, Crysis 2 And Portal 2. Those are the 4 games I have played on Both systems and though the 2600k is absolutely smooth as can be with never even a hint of stutter in all 4 games with 3 cards, The 3930k seems a bit more fluidly smooth and does get More FPS at the same clock speeds with 2 cards then the 2600k does with 3. CPU and Chipset does have a lot to do with Utilization of Graphics. I cant explain why it seems more fluid but it does.
Now, Do not get me wrong here, I am not dissing the 2600k. I own the system. I am just saying that for those who do not haggle about price/performance ratios and who want to Run SLI or TRI SLI, The X79 is the best platform available for this.
3930k 4.1ghz 2 570 3Dmark 06 I messed up when taking this screen shot and changed all the CPUz shots so the speed cannot be seen but it is 4.1ghz
2600k 4.2ghz 3 570 3Dmark 06
3930k 4.4ghz 2 570 3Dmark 11
2600k 4.4ghz 3 570 3Dmark 11
Let me make clear to everyone who reads this that some things in this post are my opinion. I also want to say that the 3Dmark11 Shots are skewed results because
I did not know when I ran it that I needed to INPUT the amount of cards running so it really severly messed up the physics and combined score. I will redo them once I get my X79 system up and running.
More to come as soon as I bench the 2600k at higher speeds. I already have the 3930k results as I benched them just this past week all week long.
I am doing the 2600k Benchmarks over again even though I have a ton from Jan. and Feb because there has been patches made on these benchmark programs and the video drivers were different since the beginning of the year and I want to use the same exact version for each set up along with the same exact video drivers.
EDIT: Please dont hijack my thread with arguements about why I am wrong here. If anything is wrong it is not me. I simply loaded the systems and ran the benchmarks. I cannot tell the benchmark what numbers to throw out when they are completed
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