Which CPU

[MiRai]

i7-3970x or i7-3930k
So on my new build ive been researching the cpu's quite a bit but dont know which would be more beneficial for me

The 3930k is basically the same chip just underclocked abit from what i understand with a price of $569

After a quick Google search of some 3970X benchmark reviews (there aren't many), I see that the games that its been tested with are either GPU limited or don't take advantage of all the cores (not that I expected anything else). I doubt there's anyone on this forum that bought the 3930K, was unimpressed with it, and then turned around and dropped $1,000 more on a 3970X to have it change their life in gaming as they know it -- So, you're in uncharted territory here.

While I'm sure there is a difference between the chips while playing games, I doubt that difference is noticeable.

So the top of the line i7-3970x looks pretty awesome but the price tag of $1,079 is assumed to come with the best i7 chip
Will i get much more out of the 3970x over the 3930k for multiboxing WoW? Is it worth the almost doubled price?

Every single Intel Extreme Edition chip for the past 4 (?) years has carried the price tag of $1,000 (usually double the price from the next choice in line), whether the chip was actually worth it or not. The price on these never drops and even when they're old and outdated the price tag will still be $1,000. Blame AMD for providing garbage competition in the CPU market.

Im looking to run at least 10 wow's on each of my good computers as thats what i can run on my current setup, but i also want to be able to fraps in highquality with my new setup without any system lag or low frame rates. Right now with i7-990x, 32gb ram, gtx690 when im running 10 box and frapsing it drops framerates below 30 on big fights. I want to keep free of the lag spikes i get from performance issues.

Unless you're running close to maxing out your CPU, then recording video is going to be limited to the write speed of your storage media, and seeing as most people record to a single HDD (which is even sometimes the same drive as their OS and/or game drive), that's where their recording bottleneck usually lies because HDDs are as slow as molasses.

How "high quality" are we talking here? I can record footage using RGB24 (~10GB/min @ 1,490Mbps) to an SSD which can't even be played back on a regular HDD because it's too demanding. Would I ever use this codec for YouTube? No.

Can you tell the difference between these two videos? Be honest!

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