Lga which???

[RoydRage]

Hi Guys...

I'm an old tyme forum member that built some Heavy Duty Rigs a while back... Fugger might remember me...

Taking care of sick Parents, and work has led me away from this place, But I know that this Joint is the Business when You want to get the Low down on something Hi-Performance Computer related.

So... I would like to ask some of the Heavy Hitters on here their opinion on what Intel Platform to go with for my New Rig. I'm confused about LGA 1150, 1155, or 2011

It will be a Water Cooled Silverstone case with a SilverStone 1500w Strider PS that's in This Current Rig now...

It will be used for Mostly Work... Some Gaming, and It has to run a very CPU, and memory intensive Program that I wrote that runs a company I work for... And even though this rig is OCed, and had good quality parts including an ASUS Rampage III as of 3 Years ago it BOGGS IT DOWN!

So I want something Fast, But Reliable & Bug Free.

Which Board & CPU Platform

Thinking of running this V. Card: EVGA 06G-P4-2790-KR GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB 384-bit GDDR5, And Sound Blaster Sound Card, and 2 Samsung 512gb SSD In Raid 0 And a 1 TB Raptor for Spare Back up Drive

You Thoughts are Much appriciated!!!

Tony (aka Roydrage)

[Evantaur]

2011 if you're looking for something with more than 4 cores (server/workstation socket)
1150 new socket for Haswell
1155 old socket for IB

[lutjens]

I agree, Socket 2011 is probably your best bet. For CPU and memory intensive tasks, it's the best currently available. Far better I/O expansion abilities than with the mainstream platform, as well.

[RoydRage]

I agree, Socket 2011 is probably your best bet. For CPU and memory intensive tasks, it's the best currently available. Far better I/O expansion abilities than with the mainstream platform, as well.

Is one Chip/Socket Platform more overclockable than another?

Thanks,

Tony

[lutjens]

Is one Chip/Socket Platform more overclockable than another?

Thanks,

Tony

Socket 2011 is solely X79 and processors on it overclock well, especially considering that processors on 2011 have their IHS soldered on. 2011 is also nice due to the 40 PCI-E lanes. The newest mainstream platform (Haswell) seems to overclock a couple hundred MHz less on average (from what I've been reading), but all chips are different so YMMV. Haswell has slightly better single threaded performance and a more advanced chipset (native PCI-E 3.0 and more SATA III connections), but far fewer PCI-E lanes. Most people seem to do well with the Socket 2011 i7-3930K and it seems to be the best balance of price vs performance ATM. I personally chose a Xeon E5-1660 for the native PCI-E 3.0 support and due to the fact that it doesn't have stupid arbitrary restrictions on memory size and ECC support that Intel decided to impose on the i7s. It costs a bit more, but it's the least neutered overclockable chip that Intel makes ATM.