Originally Posted by
ZENBOY123
Any chance that LGA-1150 will support DDR4 any time soon?
I haven't heard anything, as far as I know it will never be supported. It requires a whole new chipset (x99) so it's a considerable amount of work and I don't even know if they are compatible at all.
Originally Posted by
ZENBOY123
Is the 5820k on par with or better than the 4790k?
Depends, the 5820k has more cores (6 vs 4, and thus more threads, 12 vs 8 ) and better cache (15mb vs 8mb) so it will perform better on multithreaded and with high numbers of cache hits/cache misses on the 4790k. It doesn't perform quite as well on single threaded applications though.
All in all I think it's better.
Originally Posted by
ZENBOY123
even ignoring that the RAM prices are all wrong and we're paying for 8GB really and that we don't even need that extra 1GB most likely.
GPUs use a different kind of RAM called GDDR (normal ram is DDR) so it has different prices and specifications (for example higher bandwidth, but also higher latency).
Larger amounts of GPU RAM are useful for data processing, but not so much for gaming. Actually some people say that 1gb GDDR5 is enough for graphics cards. I'm not convinced personally, but higher end nvidia cards certainly have more than you could use when gaming.
Originally Posted by
Neko
Also for the most part go with i5 over i7, i7 adds little if you're planning to use the machine for gaming.
Not much choice in 2011 socket tho