Change to X79/ LGA 2011 - Worth it?

Some time ago someone posted here about upgrading to LGA 2011 when the current Ivy Bridge release was immenent and I asked why one would go the X79 route. My question was misunderstood and upset at least a couple of people. Some time has passed, and I'd like to ask the question again, hoping this time my poor english skills are not misunderstood again.

With the Haswell on the way, is an investment in LGA 2011 worthwhile?

Given it's expensive and starting to age, if I wanted to improve my systems performance for gaming, media encoding and photoshopping would spending $1300 be a wise investment? (ASRock X79 Extreme9, another 32GB of RAM, and a I7-3930X).

If you have LGA 2011 technology I'd welcome your thoughts.

Edit: Arghh: Sorry, posted in wrong forum.. Meant to post in Hardware & Devices... Slip of the mouse.. Please forgive me.

Thanks
Tanya

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Perhaps the move to 2011 is not going to be worth the expense. I'm happy with a single video card, and I can live with 32GB of RAM - for now. Perhaps I'll come back to this in 6 - 12 months.

Quick Sync is optimized for speed, and sacrifices quality to achieve it. For <source> to portable (such as ipod), it's ok, but for my needs, which is to back up my fragile optical disks (which kids love to leave lying around), and place on server at 1080p for use on our many TVs and computers, it's not an ideal feature.

thanks
Tanya

The Intel Extreme series is a good one although a little old. Worth $1300 to upgrade? I wouldn't do it myself, bbut that is me. There are rumors of Ivy Bridge Extreme CPUs on the horizon, but with the advent of Haswell I don't know if it's true or not, as I said, rumors.

If you did do it, I doubt 64GB of RAM would add more performance than your 32GB. But RAM is cheap, so why not have it, just in case? I don't tax my system with Photoshop but I do notice it snaps open with 16GB over 4GB of RAM, the SSD doesn't hurt either though.

Just trying to squeeze as much performance as I can out of my rig, and also "future proof" it a little. Spend it now, so I dont have to spend anything for a few years. The belt is going to have to tighten in a couple of years so I figured this might be one of my last chances.

I do a lot of media decoding/encoding. All of my optical disks are ripped to MKV and TS and placed on a server so we can watch them from there. The disks then dont get damaged or worn out.

The kids and I are also heavily into NBA. We have league pass, so backing up the games too.

I've also been converting alot of my movies to blu-ray; I have been running out of physical space to store my disks, and putting 3 movies on one disk saves me alot of space.

I do a lot of photoshop work for myself and other people.

I also play alot of games, listen to music, watch a lot of movies, write coldfusion web sites, some traditional programming and a lot of excel work.

I have a 256GB SSD which runs the OS, applications and is used as a scratch disk for all applications that need one. I have a 4gb RAMdisk which is used as a scratch disk for photoshop (before the SSD), and stores temp files, and my IE cache.

The system has a I7-3770K and 32GB of DDR3-2400, and is overclocked to 4.2ghz (cant go higher because x264.exe crashes over 4.2).

kbrady1979 said:

I would wait until Ivy Bridge Extreme comes out because it definitely sounds like you could utilize a good Socket 2011 system. If you don't like what IB-E has to offer, SB-E parts should be quite a bit cheaper to make room for the new parts.

Interestingly Kelly I read an article a while back which is only rumours, but it said that Ivy E was being bypassed now and that Haswell E was due out this year.

Read the article here - Intel Haswell E launch rumoured for 2013 | bit-tech.net

Its a month old now, have you heard any solid news of a definite Ivy E release?

Ok, thanks all. I will hold off and see what develops... IVY-E or Haswell..