Best value CPU MOBO combination. [Answered]

geeze, Mike... ur lookin' pretty good to me!  It is soooo frustrating the trend to mobility and lack of any real competition has shifted intel's focus away from serious power user enhancements!  One thing I'd really like is a more hugely powerful primary core, as this is what tends to saturate, along with 5 ,7 or 9 ancellary cores... 
 
 
Right now I don't think much has happened to make our systems obsolete.  I periodically track this, with CPU porn running in my veins and the ability to squish mine with some of airwave's omnisphere multis or breaktweeking..and SPlat's print to audio now solves much of the overload for me... Plus I just don't see anything worth the money beyond maybe going with VEP Pro and hanging a couple new/old DAWs on the VastMaschine... but this takes brains and time to configure... you probably gots it bedder den me in dat area!
 
I'll be curious what the pros say to your queri... I'm subscribing to ur thread!  

I don't see anything in your signature - what are you running now?

Ahh - that's better ;-)
I was interested in this - because I'm starting to look at the specs of what's available in the new CPUs and mobos.
From my limited research - I don't think you're going to find anything that's much better than what you've already got. Plus you always take the chance of introducing new "incompatibilites" or "issues" when you change motherboards ;-)
 
You'll see in my signature, I'm running a i7 3770K @ 4GHz with Z77 chipset, and I'm thinking I might wait another year or two before worrying about upgrading. I thought the only upgrade path that's worthwhile for me - is to move to 6 (hyperthreaded) cores - but you've already got that too ;-)

Hi Mike,
I'm in a very similar situation to you, which is why I was looking at answers to this thread too.
I think I'm coming to the conclusion that it's not really worth upgrading right now - but see what others say...
(I won't hijack your thread - I'm just looking over your shoulder) ;-)

I'm in the market for an i7 6700 based system with a motherboard that supports 64 GB. Most standard systems from Dell and HP only seems to support 32 GB, which is a bit of a bummer. I gave up building my own years ago, but it might be necessary.
 
I"ll scan this Forum, but if there are any recommendation meeting my base requirements, I'd appreciate a note.

I think several of us have answered your thread, Mike... intel hasn't done diddly in recent years, focusing on mobile... SSD's are a huge improvement.  Call some of the DAW makers on the board here if you want to eeeek out a tad more performance but I've been in the same boat for awhile, spend time periodically tracking developments and my little ole' 6 core 4930 is still up there, as is yours... Personally I think it's crazy to dump money into replacing a high end cpu with a tad better when you don't have SSD's (or so it seems from ur sig)...
 
Memory is top on my list right now... wanna bump to 64; I routinely run out. Then learn/get VE Pro5 to eeek out a lot more (Great thread by DRanck) and maybe the next gen next year will be worthy of it's cost... might be two years.   I planned on upgrading before now but, to be frank... I think it's stupid unless you got money to burn and already have ssd's...
 
Oh, yea, Bit's thread
 
 

It a surprise to me that no one so far has had an opinion on the current best value CPU and MOBO combination.

Everyone's got an opinion about what I should do but still no answer to my question.

Man I must be daft.

There isn't actually a question anywhere in my first post but if any question is implied surely it's stated in the thread title not in the bit of background info I gave.

Anyway my comment wasn't directed at you as you said you were "looking over my shoulder". That really implies that you also were interested in finding out what was the best value CPU MOBO combination. You certainly weren't interested in what I should do.

Anyway it's a moot point. I have an answer as I've indicated in an updated thread title.

Oh no John. It was all the guff about how I don't need an update or I should do this or do that that got to me.

You stated what you were doing on the thread.

I wish there was a way for the OP of a thread to close it.

Thanks Bobf. You've contributed nothing to this thread and now come in name calling. Sure I'm cranky, but name calling; really.

So there have been no CPU and MOBO updates in the 5 years since I built the system in my specs. Wow!

So you would advise someone looking to put together a computer today, to buy my MOBO and CPU combo.

My crankiness comes from the fact that I've told, I don't need to update, while some said you're pretty well off already and some said there's nothing out there better than what you have, but NOONE has told me what there is so I can decide whether the small increase in performance is worth it.

As I said I haven't kept up with what's happening in the PC game in the last 5 years but there must be a MOBO with new chipsets and extra features that I don't have and may want and there has to be at least one CPU that's faster, more economical or something than my 5 year old processor.

I'd left the thread finished it thanks for revving it with an insult.

Do you feel better for it?

Here's the thing - have a look at the top cpus on tomshardware.co.uk
http://www.tomshardware.c...ck,review-32901-5.html

There is nothing that's got any better specs - unless maybe your clock speed is a little slower (I'm on my phone and can't see your specs)
New chipsets won't give you anything more than marginal improvements as will moving to DDR4.

You have to do a little looking up too ;-)

Mike... would you mind sharing your answer?  I for one would be interested...along with John.  I tagged this thread as I'm always open to improvements I might not know about.

jackson white
If it helps someone, the best CPU/mobo bang for the buck for my last build was an i7-5820K on an ASUS X99-A mobo. Least amount of "extras" for a dedicated DAW. SSDs made a big difference as well. No issues with the build, no problems over the last few months, Sonar running very well indeed. 

This combination  depending on mobo generation seems to be holding up well in a many setups. 

Yep, and they landed on the moon with way less computer power than  the average smart phone has.
 
We probably can't buy that computer Bat, unless we want it used. You know planned obsolescence :) and we would need tons of guitars and outboard gear :) and be able to play like you.

heheh, thanks starise....and patm300e
 
i want to upgrade my system too,
so i'm really just poking fun..
 
but also making the point that it's not about your rig,
it's about your craft.
so folks that cannot afford a 'rig', can still do what they need to do.
that's all.