Looking for an upgrade

Lord Mirdalan · April 25, 2020

Hi all,

I'm thinking of upgrading my CPU (E5-1630 v4). I'm running a variety of Autodesk programs that would benefit from a few extra cores, but I'm on a student's budget.

I'd like to keep the same motherboard, so I'm limited to X99 and socket 2011-v3.

I've found 6800k and 5820k chips for around 200USD on Ebay. What are your thoughts on these as a viable upgrade path?

Froody129 · April 25, 2020

38 minutes ago, Lord Mirdalan said:

Hi all,

I'm thinking of upgrading my CPU (E5-1630 v4). I'm running a variety of Autodesk programs that would benefit from a few extra cores, but I'm on a student's budget.

I'd like to keep the same motherboard, so I'm limited to X99 and socket 2011-v3.

I've found 6800k and 5820k chips for around 200USD on Ebay. What are your thoughts on these as a viable upgrade path?

Those are essentially equal to the 1600 and the newer generations are a substantial improvement above those. If you're after pure CPU horsepower those chips aren't the way to go. X99 has other benefits, though those are being negated by new platforms. I'd look into Ryzen unless you very often use a program which benefits specifically from an Intel chip

Lord Mirdalan · April 25, 2020

Just now, Froody129 said:

Those are essentially equal to the 1600 and the newer generations are a substantial improvement above those. If you're after pure CPU horsepower those chips aren't the way to go. X99 has other benefits, though those are being negated by new platforms. I'd look into Ryzen unless you very often use a program which benefits specifically from an Intel chip

Most of the Autodesk programs that I run have a slight improvement when running on Intel chips. I don't dispute that Ryzen would be more than adequate, but I put a good bit of money into this X99 board, and I'm not ready to let it go yet.