2700K vs 3570K... Which to keep?

[njdevilsfan87]

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.

 

[jackstar7]

I'd say stick with the 2700K.

My reasons are that if you did decide to SLI your Titan you'd probably do well to spring for a new board/platform with bandwidth to handle all that, which might be long enough from now that you'd get either a whole new setup (Haswell refresh) or get a great deal on a 3770K (for PCIe 3.0) if feel like that would be all you needed.

You could probably get a decent amount for the 3570, but if the 2700K is doing well enough for you now... why swap and lose HT and only gain some potential future proofing?

 

[cytg111]

sell both, get a haswell rig and a cheapo dualcore-something for the mining.
There, problem solved .

 

[Sheep221]

- Definitely the 2700K, clock by clock the 3570K is few % faster but has no HT so is still slower overall.
- The delidding process is something I would avoid if I have other, and better solution, the delidding would cut badly from its selling price, just get the cheap DC and you are done with it.

 

[Face2Face]

I have a 2600K that I got for a good price. I am looking at the same thing. I game mostly, but also do some video and photo editing. I guess I need to see how well the 2600K clocks.

 

[Ketchup]

The 3570k will be worth more at this point, so that would be the one to sell. If you are going to delid, I would make sure that has gone smoothly before selling either one.

A board that supports PCIe 3.0 will work on either chip, so no difference there.

I would consider the performance difference near negligible, and would gladly keep the cooler chip, but that part is just personal preference.

 

[cytg111]

sell both, get a haswell rig and a cheapo dualcore-something for the mining.
There, problem solved .

Serious here, future proofing AND getting the cheapo dualcore rig for mining, think al little outside the box

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Haswell is not an option. A 4770K and good Z87 motherboard is over $500. For a 15% bump in performance clock-for-clock over the 2700K, plus an entire weekend of having to tear down and redo the water loop, is just not something I am interested in. :\

The nice about all of this right now is I don't need a new motherboard. No matter what I do, it's just drop in replacement. The G1610 will replace the 3570K, and the 3570K may or may not replace the 2700K. It's easier this way.

 

[NTMBK]

Keep the 2700K.

 

[24601]

The 3570k will be worth more at this point, so that would be the one to sell. If you are going to delid, I would make sure that has gone smoothly before selling either one.

A board that supports PCIe 3.0 will work on either chip, so no difference there.

I would consider the performance difference near negligible, and would gladly keep the cooler chip, but that part is just personal preference.

This.

If you have a good clocker that can go to 5ghz once delided then you're going to want to keep that one.

If you don't, then you can sell a delided 3570k to people on this forum.

If you fail and kill it, you can keep the 2700k.

 

[grimpr]

I cant believe this, please keep the Core i7 2700k, common reason commands it.

 

[guskline]

From your icon, I think you are close to a MicroCenter. I have an idea. Sell both and buy the 3770k. Use the extra $$ on something else. You have the proper mb AND if you have a custom water cooling you are set. Even at 4.4Ghz the 3770k will about equal or exceed your 2700k at 4.75Ghz. I know you discounted that idea, but considering your reluctance to tear down the entire system for a 4770k build, the 3770k along with your mb, ram, gpu etc gives you the most leverage.

 

[tweakboy]

Oh 2700k all the way my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better OCer. He can go to 4.8Ghz with proper cooling and a good batch chip.


That will be faster then a 3570k @ 4.4Ghz ................

 

[Dadofamunky]

Micro Center had/has incredible deals on 3770Ks. Right when I was in the market to upgrade, the store in Silicon Valley had to close down and MC does not ship their chip specials, in-store only. Gaaahhhrrr.