CPU upgrade?

[mt59102]

I have a Intel i7 6850 older machine and a Asus Rampage V edition 10 (socket 2011) With this board are there any ideas if I get a faster chip?

 

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

If what you do is very multithreaded you could get a 6950X or one of the many LGA 2011-3 Xeons out there (E5 2699A V4, for example), but if you want a faster gaming CPU then no, there really isn't a faster chip on that socket. The 6950X can likely be clocked a little higher and therefore game a little faster, but it's in the neighborhood of 100-200MHz, not noticeable. You'd be better off waiting for next gen CPUs to launch and just do a full upgrade, then flip the board (Rampage boards do tend to hold a lot of value on the used market, you can probably get a pretty penny to put towards your next system with it)

[Sjaakie]

per core not really. If your use case scales well over more cores you can look into a Xeon.

 

But budget wise it may still make more sense to get a modern chip / board.

[mt59102]

Thanks and with. Only pci 3 can’t do much else

[MonkeyBomb]

30 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If what you do is very multithreaded you could get a 6950X or one of the many LGA 2011-3 Xeons out there (E5 2699A V4, for example), but if you want a faster gaming CPU then no, there really isn't a faster chip on that socket. The 6950X can likely be clocked a little higher and therefore game a little faster, but it's in the neighborhood of 100-200MHz, not noticeable. You'd be better off waiting for next gen CPUs to launch and just do a full upgrade, then flip the board (Rampage boards do tend to hold a lot of value on the used market, you can probably get a pretty penny to put towards your next system with it)

 

Whoa!  I was curious what a pretty penny was for his board and did a quick look on ebay, those prices are insane!! Even if mt59102 was to sell his at 20% less than the average asking price he'd be able buy something like a 5600x, motherboard and ram.  Wow

 

Do you know why they are priced so high?

[mt59102]

How much are they going for I don’t remember as it been awhile back?

[MonkeyBomb]

Just now, mt59102 said:

How much are they going for I don’t remember as it been awhile back?

 

Average asking price looks to be around $550 - $600 USD 

[-rascal-]

16 minutes ago, mt59102 said:

Thanks and with. Only pci 3 can’t do much else

PCI-E 3.0 is not a limitation, even for something like a RTX 3080 or RX 6800XT.

If you give it the full PCI-E 3.0 X16 lanes, a current top-end GPU will be fine.

 

The problem would be the CPU bottleneck, if you are chasing for more performance, more FPS.

If you haven't already, you can give that i7-6850K an overclock, to bump performance up a tiny bit.

 

When I had my i7-6800K, I was able to get it up to 4.0 GHz all core OC within minutes.

I never got the chance to push it further -- the CPU ended up dying, and I returned it to Intel.

You can see how far you can push your i7-6850K.

 

i7-6800K and i7-6850K should be have more OC headroom compared to the i7-6900K or i7-6950X, due to less cores and silicon to deal with.

 

Otherwise, new socket + platform.

[jaslion]

Can always oc if you have the cooling for it.

5 minutes ago, MonkeyBomb said:

 

Average asking price looks to be around $550 - $600 USD 

Actual sold ones are around 250

 

16 minutes ago, mt59102 said:

Thanks and with. Only pci 3 can’t do much else

Thats not an issue a 3090ti barely performs worse on it.

 

[MonkeyBomb]

Just now, jaslion said:

Can always oc if you have the cooling for it.

Actual sold ones are around 250

That's still surprising.

[-rascal-]

45 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If what you do is very multithreaded you could get a 6950X or one of the many LGA 2011-3 Xeons out there (E5 2699A V4, for example), but if you want a faster gaming CPU then no, there really isn't a faster chip on that socket. The 6950X can likely be clocked a little higher and therefore game a little faster, but it's in the neighborhood of 100-200MHz, not noticeable. You'd be better off waiting for next gen CPUs to launch and just do a full upgrade, then flip the board (Rampage boards do tend to hold a lot of value on the used market, you can probably get a pretty penny to put towards your next system with it)

 

18 minutes ago, MonkeyBomb said:

 

Whoa!  I was curious what a pretty penny was for his board and did a quick look on ebay, those prices are insane!! Even if mt59102 was to sell his at 20% less than the average asking price he'd be able buy something like a 5600x, motherboard and ram.  Wow

 

Do you know why they are priced so high?

 

I sold my ASUS X99 Deluxe II for $250 CAD .... back in Jan 2021
So they do hold a bit of value in the used market.

[RONOTHAN##]

51 minutes ago, MonkeyBomb said:

Do you know why they are priced so high?

Rampage boards are usually considered collectors items and are usually pretty good board if you're gonna be doing some more competitive overclocking. Plus it's an extreme edition platform which helps as well. 

 

28 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

I sold my ASUS X99 Deluxe II for $250 CAD .... back in Jan 2021
So they do hold a bit of value in the used market.

That was probably more because of miners back then. X99, even with that price, was generally the cheapest way to get 40 PCIe lanes, and thus you can use it to mine with 10 different 3060s pre LHR v2 (they needed x4 PCIe in order to not be mining locked)