Update my Current CPU / system or wait on something else?

[Arcanedeath]

I'm considering dropping in a Six core Xeon W3680 3.33 Ghz to help speed up my encoding and get a last huarah out of my current system in my Sig. This would cost $600 but it would be a drop in replacement requiring little work.

The other option I was considering was waiting on Skt 2011 and just getting the base model chip for that socket and recycling the rest of my parts since that's in around the same budget.

Thoughts? or just keep what I have now and overclock more 🙂

 

[iXombie]

I'm running a similar set up to yours in respects to motherboard and CPU. Maybe a GTX560Ti/570 would suit your needs more faster video encoding? Then upgrade to an Ivy Bridge on 1155 in the spring. My speculation is that the socket 2011 boards will be costly.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I'm running a similar set up to yours in respects to motherboard and CPU. Maybe a GTX560Ti/570 would suit your needs more faster video encoding? Then upgrade to an Ivy Bridge on 1155 in the spring. My speculation is that the socket 2011 boards will be costly.

I'm not a fan of GPU encoding as quality wise it just doesn't stack up as well as traditional CPU based encoding, hence the want for a CPU upgrade 🙂, my only issue with going down to socket 1155 is lack of PCI-E lanes as I have to many PCI-E cards to support all those HDDs plus my trusty Intel Pro1000 PT NIC and I have 6x 4GB of ddr 1600 ram so I'd have to drop down to 16gb I was actually considering going up to 32GB if I went with Skt 2011, hence why I was still on the fence.

 

[iXombie]

In that respect the cost of memory would probably be significantly less to go with LGA2011 with the cost of 8GB RAM modules at the moment.

 

[sangyup81]

I say save for new Socket

 

[Arcanedeath]

I say save for new Socket

That's what I'm leaning towards as if I get a lowend Skt 2011 chip and a board w/ 8 dimm slots I suspect it would be a decent upgrade over what I've got now.