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For video editing and 24/7 your best bet would be a sever CPU.

Well... if the instals the wrong BIOS he can really easily brick his motherboard.

Ok, there doesn't seem to be an BIOS update for your system to support Xeon CPUs, there is one for the T (tower) version, but I highly doubt it will actually work on the MT (minitower).

If it's LGA1366 it automatically is also X58. It should work, but may require a BIOS update.

I just found a branded dual socket MOBO for $90 on eBay, I know dual CPUs bring a lot of problems, don't scale well etc. and that those boards don't support overclocking.. but I am kinda feeling the geek in me screaming DUAL XEONS. That would be $180 for dual gloriness, I should calm down. On a more serious note tho, I still think I'll go for it if I find a good deal on a good motherboard and maybe update to the 9th gen or even the 10th gen later (or to whatever AMD brings in that time). Also 3770 single core performance sounds good enough to me, and better than 6700 multithreaded sounds even better. LAST UPDATE: I just found out people in my contry are quite stupid and give away branded X58 boards with SATA III and USB 3.0 for like $110 max and even that's more than what it actually usually sells, so I am gonna go for that and a X5670. Getting it to possibly to 4.2+GHz (I read that is fairly easy and most of these chips usually go up to 4.4GHz) and pairing it with a 1070/80, that should be absolutely no bottleneck... thanks all of you and sorry for me being the stupid one and not looking to the local market first.

Ok, maybe I need to approach this from another perspective, which naturally brings another question: How long do you think a X58 system could last (with an overclocked X5670/5680)? Now I am getting less hyped for X99, it is more expensive, has no upgrade path and warranty, unless the CPUs become supercheap like soemone stated earlier I don't think it's viable at all. EDIT: Another question, is it worth it to get those no name X58 boards for ebay? They're dirt cheap, but god knows what they do or don't support.

And is that already happening or do we have to wait for them to decide on if they should sell them? Also, the cost of an 5820k and a X99 MOBO is just slightly bigger than R5 1600 and a B350 MOBO, which one delivers more performance? (considering I could overclock both).

Yeah, I still see it as an viable option, but I am getting somewhat more convinced on getting X99, I will wait on the reply from that guy which is supposed to convince me and I'll see.

I have messaged him, might make me do that if the reasons are any good.

I am only counting Buy It Now prices, I am not really interested in autions to be fair.

What do you mean by that? Who is he and why should I?

Cheapest 5820k I can find on eBay (no access to Amazon in my country) is 210 euros, cheapest X5670 I can find on Aliexpress is 41 euros,as far as I know that is not 100, but much more. EDIT: I did a quick search for motherboards and I can find both at the same price.

Sounds great!

The problem with that is you can get a motherboard with a CPU for much cheaper than a R5 1600 itself, RAM is also much cheaper, especially now and I am begging to be proved wrong, but when overclocked I don't think there is even gonna be much difference.

My main job is progamming, but I do all of that stuff mainly for fun and some quick cash, even when working not-so-profesionally I can't personally imagine doing it on a low end CPU...