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5930k ordered. Pricing seems to have dropped a lot on 6-core Haswell-E but not on the 8 core models, nor on Broadwell-E :( 

  1. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    That's probably because you can get a Ryzen 5 chip that performs pretty much identically for 160$ so the demand has dropped :P

  2. porina

    porina

    For light and general tasks Ryzen might be good enough for the masses, but for any serious use pretty worthless to me. My Ryzen systems (1600, 1700, 2600) are all beaten by an i3 in my use heavy cases. So in that sense, I am hoping AMD is driving Intel HEDT pricing down so I can buy more of it up!

     

    Haswell-E gets you more OC headroom, double the FPU performance per core (Zen 2 will finally catch up and start to be interesting), has adequate ram bandwidth (but could use more), and a bunch of PCIe lanes. Massive drawback is lack of affordable/new X99 chipset mobos these days. The 5930k will be replacing existing 5820k which is a poor clocker only doing 4.5 GHz.

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