Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Hello my friend.
Yes, you are right.
The 980's are the king of the single socket.
Where I see these being a good choice is for people thinking of building a lower cost cruncher.
In the US you can buy a 2600K for app $330.00 while a 980x costs close to a $1000.00
Then the cost of the boards is almost the same but you only need 2 sticks of DDR3 memory vs the 3 on the X58 chipsets.
Maybe it's usefullness is for those that want a top producing system but don't want or can't afford the top Hex's..
So far I like it except that flashing the bios on this Intel board is causing me to pull out what remaining hair I have.
There are 4 ways to update bios and I've tried all of them many times in the past 2 days and the only thing I've accomplished is to waste time that could have been crunching.
Dave, I agree, that costwise (cents/point) the 2600K is an absolute winner.
It cumulates a lower acquisition cost plus lower energy cost. No question about that.