Comparison between my friend's rig and my rig - Hardware & Software

Recently, I've just build a PC and my friend wants to compare both our rigs together. His specs: RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Z 16gb 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme9 OD: Samsung Blu-ray w/Lightscribe GPU: MSI GTX560 Ti "Hawk" w/ TF-III Cooler: CoolerMaster X6 PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 750w NIC: TP_Link 300mb/s W-N Card CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 3.6ghz OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit (He didn't state his HDD or SSD) My specs: CPU:Intel Core i5-4670k 3.7ghz PSU:Seasonic X-850 GPU:Gigabyte R9 280x OC Windforce x2 in Crossfire HDD/SSD: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD and Samsung 840 Evo 120GB MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H RAM:Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHZ (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 Fan:Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO OD:Asus 24xDVD-RW Serial ATA Internal OEM Drive DRW-24B1ST OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit So which is more powerful?

Yours has more gpu power, so it will be better at gaming. His has a better cpu and more ram so it will be better at rendering and things..Other than that there's not much to compare.

[QUOTE=boomer678;42846459]His has a better cpu and more ram so it will be better at rendering and things..Other than that there's not much to compare.[/QUOTE] No it doesn't. A Sandy Bridge-E quad doesn't best a Haswell chip. The OPs rig is considerably more powerful. The only thing his friends' rig would do better is heavily threaded applications that require absurd amounts of RAM. I kinda feel sorry for him getting an LGA2011 board because Intel shafted the enthusiast line in both processor selection (Ivy Bridge-E came like just a few months before Haswell) and in features (no LGA2011 board has PCIe 3.0 and more than a couple of SATA3 ports iirc.)

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42848089]No it doesn't. A Sandy Bridge-E quad doesn't best a Haswell chip. The OPs rig is considerably more powerful. The only thing his friends' rig would do better is heavily threaded applications that require absurd amounts of RAM. I kinda feel sorry for him getting an LGA2011 board because Intel shafted the enthusiast line in both processor selection (Ivy Bridge-E came like just a few months before Haswell) and in features (no LGA2011 board has PCIe 3.0 and more than a couple of SATA3 ports iirc.)[/QUOTE] While I agree that OP's rig is more powerful, 2011 has WAY more options for SATA and PCIe. While Intel hasn't put enough thought into entusiast boards, they are still the best option for people who want 4-way SLI or a fuckton of drives without a separate card for the SATA ports. see below: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157327"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157327[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130697"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130697[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131983"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131983[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131982"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131982[/URL]

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42848089]No it doesn't. A Sandy Bridge-E quad doesn't best a Haswell chip. The OPs rig is considerably more powerful. The only thing his friends' rig would do better is heavily threaded applications that require absurd amounts of RAM. I kinda feel sorry for him getting an LGA2011 board because Intel shafted the enthusiast line in both processor selection (Ivy Bridge-E came like just a few months before Haswell) and in features (no LGA2011 board has PCIe 3.0 and more than a couple of SATA3 ports iirc.)[/QUOTE] You think a 3820 is significantly slower than a 4670k? Performance wise, a 3820 is on par/better overall, with worse single core performance. Don't forget that the 3820 also has 8 threads, which might be useful/useless depending on usage.

[QUOTE=Sigs367;42871951]While I agree that OP's rig is more powerful, 2011 has WAY more options for SATA and PCIe. While Intel hasn't put enough thought into entusiast boards, they are still the best option for people who want 4-way SLI or a fuckton of drives without a separate card for the SATA ports. see below:[/QUOTE] You're comparing a $600 board to a bunch of sub $120 boards and you expect them to offer the same amount of features? It's like trying to compare a Cadillac to a Ford Pinto. And did you even read the specs on the board? 8 of those SATA ports are provided by an onboard LSI SAS2308. The X79 itself only supplies 2 x SATA3 and 4 x SATA2. At least try to compare motherboards in similar price ranges: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130689[/url] (this board supports quad SLI, 10 SATA ports) [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131974[/url] [QUOTE=Troll;42873722]You think a 3820 is significantly slower than a 4670k? Performance wise, a 3820 is on par/better overall, with worse single core performance. Don't forget that the 3820 also has 8 threads, which might be useful/useless depending on usage.[/QUOTE] The 3820 will obviously beat a 4670 in threaded tasks (since the 4670 doesn't have HT), but the 4670 has more efficient cores and applications that use single or only up to 4 threads will benefit from the more efficient Haswell architecture. The 4770 is faster than a 3820 though.

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42878091]You're comparing a $600 board to a bunch of sub $120 boards and you expect them to offer the same amount of features? It's like trying to compare a Cadillac to a Ford Pinto. And did you even read the specs on the board? 8 of those SATA ports are provided by an onboard LSI SAS2308. The X79 itself only supplies 2 x SATA3 and 4 x SATA2. At least try to compare motherboards in similar price ranges: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130689[/url] (this board supports quad SLI, 10 SATA ports) [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131974[/url] [/QUOTE] Oh I didn't even notice that I had mistakenly put 1150 for one of my searches rather than 2011. The new newegg power search option awful. I guess they don't even have 2011 boards now or what? seriously I can't find them anymore. here are some better, more reasonably priced examples: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8556645&CatId=7379[/url] [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2076258&CatId=13[/url] [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1967898&CatId=7381[/url]

[QUOTE=Sigs367;42902764]here are some better, more reasonably priced examples: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8556645&CatId=7379[/url] [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2076258&CatId=13[/url] [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1967898&CatId=7381[/url][/QUOTE] So now you want to compare high end LGA1150 motherboards with lower end LGA2011 motherboards? You're failing at failing. Good job.