Quote Originally Posted by Filter View Post
im confused whats better a higher buss speed or a higher core speed?

everyone seems all over the charts.

i just got my new 980x and dont know which is better.
It depends on your situation.

My understanding is raising the BCLK (bus speed) raises the speed of the entire system (cores, imc, memory, etc). If what you want to do is bandwidth limited you want to do a BCLK overclock. This does put more "strain" on all of the computers subsystems. If however, if you use you computer for applications that are not bandwidth limited then raising the multiplier is fine. With triple channel memory, the x58 platform has pretty good bandwidth without overclocking the rest of the CPU. I believe a good example of a non-bandwidth limited program is Folding@home or WCG (world computing grid). The don't move really large blocks of data but do a lot of fp (floating point) type of calculations. I'm sure someone here will correct me if I'm wrong.

To aid the discussion, could you explain more what you plan to do with your computer (the types of applications you plan to run).