- Sep 12, 2005
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So tax time is coming and it's time to upgrade but I'm not sure which direction to take or even if I need to upgrade CPU at this stage.
I'm currently running a 3770k and trying to decide between upgrading to 4790k, 5930k or staying where I am for now for the following use-cases;
1. Gaming - will be going with SLI Titan-X or 980Ti to run triple 4k for iRacing, Elite and X-Plane (in 1080p is need be for frame-rates) and in single 4k for everything else
2. VM's - Am a developer by trade and would like to lock down my environments to VM's rather than still physical machines
3. Video/Audio creation and editing - I do music as a hobby and would like to get in to video editing for livestreaming and actually putting content up on my YT channel.
4. Livestreaming.
5. Blu-ray conversion to 720p so my library is stored on my NAS and discs don't get handled much after purchase.
I was originally looking at the MSI X99S Gaming 9 board due to the onboard streaming engine but then I started wondering if the 5930 would be able to handle software encoding in to Xsplit by itself anyway since it would have cores spare for the most part and then that got me wondering if a 4790 would be able to do so as well given my 3770k seems to be up to the job currently (mostly due to being capped at only 800k bitrate due to crappy upstream bandwidth).
I'm thinking that having more cores and being able to push 64Gb will be better for my VM plans, and the extra ram will also allow me to put most games I am playing in to a RAMDisk as I play them but I'm not sure the added cost of new mobo + ram + cpu will be worth the time I save on rendering.
I know that there is no difference for gaming so we can leave that out of the equation, will the X99 be enough of an upgrade over haswell for productivity to be worth the puchase and if so will the addition of hardware 264 encoding be worth it for streaming over just going for a different board...and if not, will I see enough of an upgrade from the 4790 to justify an extra $475 for just a cpu upgrade?
I'm currently running a 3770k and trying to decide between upgrading to 4790k, 5930k or staying where I am for now for the following use-cases;
1. Gaming - will be going with SLI Titan-X or 980Ti to run triple 4k for iRacing, Elite and X-Plane (in 1080p is need be for frame-rates) and in single 4k for everything else
2. VM's - Am a developer by trade and would like to lock down my environments to VM's rather than still physical machines
3. Video/Audio creation and editing - I do music as a hobby and would like to get in to video editing for livestreaming and actually putting content up on my YT channel.
4. Livestreaming.
5. Blu-ray conversion to 720p so my library is stored on my NAS and discs don't get handled much after purchase.
I was originally looking at the MSI X99S Gaming 9 board due to the onboard streaming engine but then I started wondering if the 5930 would be able to handle software encoding in to Xsplit by itself anyway since it would have cores spare for the most part and then that got me wondering if a 4790 would be able to do so as well given my 3770k seems to be up to the job currently (mostly due to being capped at only 800k bitrate due to crappy upstream bandwidth).
I'm thinking that having more cores and being able to push 64Gb will be better for my VM plans, and the extra ram will also allow me to put most games I am playing in to a RAMDisk as I play them but I'm not sure the added cost of new mobo + ram + cpu will be worth the time I save on rendering.
I know that there is no difference for gaming so we can leave that out of the equation, will the X99 be enough of an upgrade over haswell for productivity to be worth the puchase and if so will the addition of hardware 264 encoding be worth it for streaming over just going for a different board...and if not, will I see enough of an upgrade from the 4790 to justify an extra $475 for just a cpu upgrade?