Answer my question and also what cpu do you use now

only play league
current cpu is 3930k 6-core

Looks like a lot of people had issues reaching the max rated RAM speeds on that mobo... But that's part of the early adoption tax i mentioned
Assuming you can get it up to the rated 2666 (still slow, and it doesn't get any faster for the enthusiast boards, gg mobo vendors) it should be worth it, worst case scenario the free motherboard you got isn't as good as it could have been. Boo hoo.

This post was edited by DCSS on Apr 23 2017 09:46am

so tempted to pull the trigger right now
i mostly run vms, photoshop, video encoding

Have you actually compared them?



Not sure it's worth the money

This post was edited by WhoBut_WBMason on Apr 23 2017 09:49am

the 3930k is significantly slower, lol
We're talking better smt implementation, more cores/threads, even slightly more single thread performance. Not to mention more efficiency.

This post was edited by DCSS on Apr 23 2017 09:50am

He also already owns it

For the things he does, ~50% more performance seems worth it to me.

The 1700 is just as fast as the x



If you can sell your current chip then I guess it would be worth

the x has slightly higher binning though the non-x is already going to be starved for bandwidth as is so it's questionable how much that's going to matter... I think the point is he won't get the free mobo unless he springs for the 1700x.

This post was edited by DCSS on Apr 23 2017 09:58am