- Apr 19, 2007
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I have a 3570K I recently got for a mining rig (before I found out all you needed was a $55 dual core chip) and I've been playing around with it. It's a pretty good overclocker. It does 4.7ghz around 1.27v on my Z77 Mpower prime-AVX stable. But like all IB chips, it runs very hot at that clock speed, with the cores passing 90C on an Antec 620 cooler. My 2700K, also does 4.7ghz, at around 1.38v, which is also pretty good, so there's no reason to change that out based off overclock ability alone.
I was originally planning on selling the 3570K for a cheap dual core, but now I'm not so sure now since I've the idea of delidding it and seeing how far I can push it. If I did that, I'd keep the 3570K and sell off the 2700K. But I'm not sure which will be better for the long-term. Both have their reasons:
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1) The 2700K has HT, and will benefit more from multithreaded tasks. I do some video encoding here and there for fun, but it's not something I do daily. But I feel even for games that do take advantage of quad cores (like Crysis 3), HT is beneficial to allow those background tasks to keep running without much interference.
2) The 3570K has PCIe 3.0 support, which should I ever decide to SLI my Titan, would be an absolute requirement. Since it is also capable of matching my 2700K's high clocks, it's also got the slight ~5% performance advantage. And delidding it, if successful, would be very fun and rewarding.
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So basically it comes down to future-proofing : HT vs PCIe 3.0, neither of which I need right now, but may in the future. HT could be beneficial as games become more multithreaded with the coming releases of Xbox One and PS4. But if 4K monitors take off quickly, I could be in the market for one, along with another Titan, and require PCIe 3.0. A 3770K would offer both, but I'm not too interested in playing the silicon lottery, and was never looking to upgrade the 2700K anyway.
I was originally planning on selling the 3570K for a cheap dual core, but now I'm not so sure now since I've the idea of delidding it and seeing how far I can push it. If I did that, I'd keep the 3570K and sell off the 2700K. But I'm not sure which will be better for the long-term. Both have their reasons:
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1) The 2700K has HT, and will benefit more from multithreaded tasks. I do some video encoding here and there for fun, but it's not something I do daily. But I feel even for games that do take advantage of quad cores (like Crysis 3), HT is beneficial to allow those background tasks to keep running without much interference.
2) The 3570K has PCIe 3.0 support, which should I ever decide to SLI my Titan, would be an absolute requirement. Since it is also capable of matching my 2700K's high clocks, it's also got the slight ~5% performance advantage. And delidding it, if successful, would be very fun and rewarding.
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So basically it comes down to future-proofing : HT vs PCIe 3.0, neither of which I need right now, but may in the future. HT could be beneficial as games become more multithreaded with the coming releases of Xbox One and PS4. But if 4K monitors take off quickly, I could be in the market for one, along with another Titan, and require PCIe 3.0. A 3770K would offer both, but I'm not too interested in playing the silicon lottery, and was never looking to upgrade the 2700K anyway.