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Upgrade from i7 3930K help
I'm at a cross roads on this. I'd rather not dump a bunch of $ into a rig build for several reasons, but it may be inevitable.
My rigs have the P9X79 Pro motherboard and i7 3930K. Would the XEON E5-1680 V2 be a worthwhile upgrade at this point? It looks like the best of the old X79 CPUs. It would give me 2 more cores / 4 more threads and sounds like it overclocks well, but not sure if it's just wasted money at the end of 2019?
These motherboards still have everything we need except maybe M.2 if I want to get larger M.2 SSDs instead of SATA, but with so many PCIe 3.0 lanes available, I think I could use a PCIe to M.2 adapter.
If I go the full upgrade route, AMD 3900X + mobo would be at least $700; would I need more than 32GB DDR4 RAM for $100-ish?
So total upgrade for ~$800?
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Re: Upgrade from i7 3930K help
A fun thing I like to do is upgrade a system as much as possible without getting a new motherboard. Personally I'd go for the best CPU that board can handle.
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Re: Upgrade from i7 3930K help
Thanks guys! I'll go for the drop in XEON E5-1680 V2 upgrade then, and get a pci-e to M.2 adapter. Already have a nice 512GB M.2 SSD sitting here from my Dad, so may as well use it!
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Re: Upgrade from i7 3930K help
This seems like a pretty good upgrade: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...4AAOSwePpdyD15
Not sure how much RAM you have on those rigs... 12c/24t might require more than you have. You could go with one of these for 8c/16t: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-...0AAOSwNd5dsrAo
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Re: Upgrade from i7 3930K help
That's a nice chip for sure, but the multi is locked on those as far as I know. I think the E5-1680 V2 is the best one that's not locked and O/Cs well from what I could read.
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