5930k or 5960x?

[Guest acdcman200]

I have a client who is needing a gaming system. were going 3 way gtx titans for his surround gaming system. I think the 5930k would be a better option for him as all hes doing is light video editing for a small YouTube channel and gaming. What do you think would be the best bet?

[Speedbird]

No no no no no. If the build is mostly for gaming and less for editing, go for the 4790K.

[TheSLSAMG]

First off, don't buy Titans. They're overpriced and old.

 

Get GTX 980s. They perform better and scale better in SLI.

 

Next, this is a gaming system? Then just get a 4790K, you don't need more. If it's for editing as well, get the 5820K/5930K. The 5960X's slight performance boost isn't worth 2x as much money.

[mathijs727]

If its for surround gaming and a bit of light editing then i4790k and gtx980 SLI, will be faster then titans as titans are bassicly gtx780 with 6GB VRAM (and double precision which you dont need) while the 980's are a ton more powerfull. Above that, tri-sli doesnt scale that well either.

 

And if you'd had to go with a x99 cpu (because of pci-e lanes): 5820k

[mr.skyrim_pc]

Why would you ever get titans? If it is for gaming, get 3 980s, cheaper + better. Get a 4790k cpu for gaming.

[Enderman]

5930k because it is clocked higher, and he doesnt need 16 threads.

[Altecice]

 were going 3 way gtx titans

 

Thats not a gaming system then, they are for autocad and such.... go for 980's.

if he already has bought them then he has dropped performance already.

[olback]

No no no no no. If the build is mostly for gaming and less for editing, go for the 4790K.

3-Way SLI on a 4790K.. I would live to see that happen lol

[dalekphalm]

I have a client who is needing a gaming system. were going 3 way gtx titans for his surround gaming system. I think the 5930k would be a better option for him as all hes doing is light video editing for a small YouTube channel and gaming. What do you think would be the best bet?

As you can see, you've gotten some heated responses already.

 

Do you build computers for a living?

 

If so, can you please explain the reasoning behind the parts you've chosen? Specifically, going with Tri-SLI Titans? That's a colossal waste of money for Gaming and Light Editing.

 

Why Tri-SLI to begin with? While there will be some performance increase, it will be fairly minor.

 

As stated above, Tri-SLI 980's is likely a way way way better choice, unless there's additional information we're missing?

[dalekphalm]

reason why we need x99 is he does a ton of stuff on his pc at once where he actually uses more than 32gb of ram, which to me is an abouste mystery to how you can do that so thats why were going x99, he already had the titans so were reusing them in this rig. Thanks for your guys help with this.

Cheers

David

Whyyyyyy did he buy 3-Titans? He must have had them for a while.

 

In any case, now that you've explained the customer already has the Titans, then yeah, the 5930K is the way better choice. Basically little to no benefit to moving up to the 5960X.

[Speedbird]

3-Way SLI on a 4790K.. I would live to see that happen lol

Very possible. 16 from the CPU to the first card, and 8+8 to the other 2 from the chipset. Needs an expensive board though.

[Speedbird]

reason why we need x99 is he does a ton of stuff on his pc at once where he actually uses more than 32gb of ram, which to me is an abouste mystery to how you can do that so thats why were going x99, he already had the titans so were reusing them in this rig. Thanks for your guys help with this.

Cheers

David

Then maybe the 5820K? It's cheaper, still has 6 cores. Only difference is the clockspeed (but you can OC it) and PCIe lanes, which you won't need.

[Speedbird]

okay, i think well order the 5930k as its a bit faster out of the box and then we can oc it, to get it exreamly fast. 

No, you won't really see a benefit there. The difference is only 200 MHz IIRC. Trust me, the 5820K is a much better value.

[Legitsu]

for a single 1440p monitor you don't need tri SLI two 980's would be over kill hell even a single 980 would be enough

[Hieb]

I have a client who is needing a gaming system. were going 3 way gtx titans for his surround gaming system. I think the 5930k would be a better option for him as all hes doing is light video editing for a small YouTube channel and gaming. What do you think would be the best bet?

 

The 5930K will be more than enough. I disagree with the people saying get a 4790K... since it's three-way SLI, the extra threads will help immensely.

That said, I don't think he needs the 5960X. It's just unnecessary cost. You can easily overclock the 5930K to like 4.5-5GHz, while the 5960X will need a hell of a good board and power supply to go beyond 4GHz, and is less likely to hit the same speeds. Since he's mostly gaming and not doing anything insanely heavy, I don't think it's worth sacrificing clock speed to go from six to eight cores. Four to six, sure.. that's a 50% improvement. But beyond 6 cores seems overkill.

 

Also Titans are really overpriced... I'd recommend either 6GB variants of the GTX 780s, or just get GTX 980s.

[TheDudeWhoTriesHard]

If I may ask, what are the other things that your client does?