CPU 3570k vs 3770k under water and which z77 board

I am trying to decide which processor to get... Either the 3570k or the 3770k.

It will be put in my custom water loop, and and will be over clocked.

Which processor will I see the full biggest gains from and is the 3770k worth the extra money?

Also what ram and mobo would you recommend. I am thinking about the sabertooth or the v gene but not sure about the ram.

What would you all recommend?

Thanks

 

What are you doing with said processors?

 

Depends if you can use hyperthreading or not.

Both will do 4.5 to 4.8 ghz.

 

I will be using it for image editing and gaming.....

 

I'd stick with the i5 then. But if you think you benefit from hyperthreading, then go for that. Or if you need to burn a hole in your wallet on can just plain afford the difference without it having any negative impact on your life.

Otherwise, rollo is right... s'what my expectations would be overclocking. Personally, nowadays, I'd just buy the i7.

Edit: Not otherwise... no... Rollo is entirely right.

 

Not sure I'm convinced its worth the extra £80... Same value as a water block for my 7970.... What's the general consensus on ram and mobo to get a decent overclock?

 

The 3770K offers zero performance improvement over the 3570K in games, but in Photoshop the difference is around 10%. Up to you whether it's worth the price premium.

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H and it easily overclocks a 3570K to 4.5GHz, which is as far as my cooling goes. RAM doesn't make a difference for Intel overclocking nowadays since the RAM frequency is independent of the CPU frequency.

 

Recent article on memory bottlenecks in gaming

 

Memory bottlenecks dont exist, Buy any decent mid range board to hit 4.5ghz.

Any 1600mhz ram
Any Asus or gigabyte £80-£120 board
+ cpu and you will see what you want very easily.

 

Is there no advantage of getting faster ram? Or does some ram overclock better than others?

Thanks

 

The returns for buying faster ram is so small on anything over 1600. Really only shows in benchmarks.

I went for the i5 3570k, corsair vengeance 1600 (8gb) [can easly run @1800] & z77 sabertooth (5yr warranty)

Sent from my GT-I9100

 

Think that is pretty much exactly what I'm going to go for.... Any advantage of 16gb ram?

 

Not unless you use more than 8GB of RAM. And unless you know you do, you probably don't.

 

If you read the article, you'll notice that there is a benefit. However only in certain games and it isn't perceivable. That is the short and skinny of it.

So as above... there is no benefit.

I'd just buy the cheapest largest amount unless you are specifically looking at an application which benefits from faster memory. I bought mine for instance, to get a better score on geekbench. Otherwise, I've never perceived a difference.

Edit: As for more than 8gb... I've only had a problem once with 8gb. That was saving a massive file to pdf with lots of layers using many tiff files. But that was resolved by using my common sense. lol

 

Buy the 3770K and forget water cooling it to save dough as you can't get the heat out anyway without taking the lid off the CPU.

 

Thanks guys, i already have a water loop.... must get some pictures of it up... so is deliding the way to go?

Whats the UD5H like compared to the sabertooth?

Thanks