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3820 or 2600k?

Post Date: 2012-04-15
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    Posted: 15 Apr 2012 at 7:10pm
Getting the Dreadnought in June and was wondering about the cpu because all ive seen are people getting the 2600 is that better than the 3820? I'm just wondering because its only a 20 dollar price difference in the whole build to change the cpu's?

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It's not just a $20 price difference. The 3820 requires the X79 platform which also means a more expensive motherboard too. The only reason to go with the X79 platform is if you need to do x3 or x4 SLI or XFire or if you run CPU heavy programs like 3D rendering.

The 3820 is the cheapest route to get to x3 or x4 SLI/XFire support but if you are doing something like rendering you will want the 3930 or 3960 anyways since they have 6 cores.

For a single GPU or just x2 SLI or XFire the 2600k is the best choice. The 2700k is a total waste of money and I wish DS would not even offer it. It costs $50 more for an extra 0.10 GHz on the stock clock. It's a performance gain so small you will never see it and it will be pointless anyways when you have DS do a real over clock on the system anyways.

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