x99 Upgrades

[Prometheus1986]

I'm planning a new build in a year or so, but am trying to get more life out of my existing system, but given the age of the platform, am unsure of the best course. My current specs are:

Asus ROG rampage V extreme

Intel core i7 5930k (overclocked to 4.5)

32 gb Gskill ripjaw 4 ddr4 3000

dual Asus Strix gtx 1080 8gb (sli)

2tb Samsung SSD

 

Ive looked into the cost to upgrade the CPU from a 6 core, 5th gen to either a 6, 8, or 10 core 6th gen, but the only way to make it cost effective is to purchase used on ebay. Any advise on what I can do, and how reliable ebay is?

[FakeFBI]

13 minutes ago, Prometheus1986 said:

I'm planning a new build in a year or so, but am trying to get more life out of my existing system, but given the age of the platform, am unsure of the best course. My current specs are:

Asus ROG rampage V extreme

Intel core i7 5930k (overclocked to 4.5)

32 gb Gskill ripjaw 4 ddr4 3000

dual Asus Strix gtx 1080 8gb (sli)

2tb Samsung SSD

 

Ive looked into the cost to upgrade the CPU from a 6 core, 5th gen to either a 6, 8, or 10 core 6th gen, but the only way to make it cost effective is to purchase used on ebay. Any advise on what I can do, and how reliable ebay is?

depens, you just have to clocsley lok at photos, see his feedback rating, and just check out the product for part number, and ask him questions if you have

[Prometheus1986]

So what would be the best upgrade course, i've found the 10 core 6950x, the 8 core 6900k, or the 6 core 6850k. And what would be the real world improvement to the system with that upgrade since its a 5 year old design? How about upgrades to the Graphics cards, would the CPU bottleneck a new 30 series Nvidia or 6000 series AMD? 

[hihihi8]

4 hours ago, Prometheus1986 said:

So what would be the best upgrade course, i've found the 10 core 6950x, the 8 core 6900k, or the 6 core 6850k. And what would be the real world improvement to the system with that upgrade since its a 5 year old design? How about upgrades to the Graphics cards, would the CPU bottleneck a new 30 series Nvidia or 6000 series AMD? 

What resolution? 1080p, even the fastest CPU today would bottleneck a 3090. 1440p? Maybe the 5930k would ever-so-slightly bottleneck depending on the game, but I'd estimate you'd still be getting like 95% of your GPU performance. 4k, no bottleneck. At this point if you're insisting on change, i'd say either ditch the platform, or run with it until prices come down a little. I recently ditched an almost identical system (x99, 5930k, 980ti sli) for a 5950x and a 6900xt. cinebench score more than tripled, keyshot render times are night and day, solidworks part generation is much faster, and cyberpunk no longer runs at 17fps.

 

Other than that, the old system was still perfectly usable, I just got greedy xd

[Prometheus1986]

Currently I'm running 1080p, but I have my eye on an LG 1440P, which is the other reason i'm looking at cost effective upgrades is i'm not sure how well my system will run in 1440p.

[Grabhanem]

Are you willing to do a bit of Ebaying yourself? You could probably get a Ryzen CPU and motherboard and flip your 5930K and X99 board for a profit, since old HEDT stuff typically sells for vastly more than its price-to-performance equivalent.

 

edit- unless you specifically play games that support SLI, you could also probably toss in one of the 1080s, because the majority of games these days don't really care anyway.

[Prometheus1986]

Probably not with ebay, I wanted to keep the system as a backup after the new system. I'll probably end up buying a 30/6000 series this summer when supply increases, with the plan that it will be for the new computer when i build it.