[SOLVED] LGA 2011 Socket - Best Gaming CPU

[brianh91]

I have a 3930k overclocked to 4.3. I’m wondering what is the best gaming processor to replace it with for the LGA 2011 socket, having bottleneck issues with my strix 1080ti oc,

Thank you!

 

[nitinvaid20]

for your GPU the best will be i7 7700K

 

[brianh91]

for your GPU the best will be i7 7700K

Yah that’s he one I was looking at, but that won’t work on my motherboard in LGA 2011 socket will it?
I need the best one for my socket type

 

[mdd1963]

You would be well advised to look up your specific motherboard's CPU compatibility list (try to find a hardware revision number printed on MB if applicable, sometimes it matters), given the different versions of socket 2011, v2, v3, v4, etc., and wide array of cpus, many of which are only compatible at certain hardware revision/and/or BIOS levels....

 

[boosted1g]

for your GPU the best will be i7 7700K

Someone did not read the title nor the thread post both specifying socket 2011

You are looking at broadwell-e cpus (assuming mobo supports it).
The 6950x is the best but at a major price.
Realistic chips include the i7-6800k and i7-6850k

 

[mdd1963]

The 6900/6950 requires the much more recent X99 chipset...specifically the socket 2011-3

The above CPU would likely not be going in and/or functioning on his current board, the older socket 2011...

If we get a specific model number of mainboard, then we can iron out what cpus are and are not supported by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011#Desktop_.28Sandy_Bridge-E.2FIvy_Bridge-E.2FHaswell-E.2FBroadwell-E.29

 

[bignastyid]

Only 3xxx(Sandy bridge-e) and 4xxx(ivy bridge-e) cpus will work. Haswell-e and broadwell-e are socket 2011-3 and not compatible with the older 2011 boards.

Imho wait till you can afford a newer platform. Nothing you can get for your board will be worth the price of the upgrade where gaming in concerned.

 

[iamacow]

The i7 7700K is about the same performance as the i7 3930K. The major difference is its using DDR4 ram. I suggest either going with Ryzen / Threadripper or getting the 10Core 7900K because everything else isn't going to be "faster". This is why I still use my 3960X as my main computer, nothing has come along in almost 5 years to top it until just this month. You could just save money and buy 2400 DDR3 which wiil give you a boost in FPS. otherwise the 1080Ti shouldn't be bottlenecked. Heck I got 2 of them on my X79 and it's no different than in my i7 7700k system.