i7 six cores

[mikrea]

Currently in the process of refining my spec choice, and am stuck between a quad and six core (whether its worth it etc) This website has two six cores available, the 980 and the 980x. On Google I can't really find anything about the 980 just the extreme version. Can someone inform me of where it stands? As I can't stretch to 980x

 

[Frenchy]

What are you using it for?

Gaming? go for quad

Highly complex programs which can make use of more cores? go for 6 core.

 

[mikrea]

That's my dilemma. A mix of 3d rendering and real time rendering (similar to game engine).
Would a six core be worse than the 2600k in a game environment? Or is it just overkill so not recommended.

Also I think the configurator has a typo, calling the 970 the 980? So now its between 970 and 2600/k

 

[Teaz]

if the programs or what you do makes use of 6 cores then thats should be fine for you but if not you could go for the sandy bridge cpu where you can go for its hyperthreading IF needed. the sandy quad core is plenty and fine to manage pretty much anything everything.

no a six core would not be worse than the 2600 in gaming. in some cases, the 2600 does even better. so more overkill the 6 core.

and no, the 970 IS the new 980, the 970 is now pretty much displaced. there are 2 differences for it, the 970 was recently replaced with the new 980 when it was recently released where the 980X is the extreme version of it and that got replaced with the 990X.

depending on how intensive your use is, you would certainly be in good hands with the sandy instead of the bloomfield 6core.

you can see some info on it here

 

[mikrea]

Ah thanks for clearing that up
Well I'll still have to weigh out the pros and cons (mainly the fact that if I want to render the 980 will likely outperform the quad)