5820K vs 5960X

[fapman]

Okay so, this is getting out of control now.

I have asked about my setup now couple of times and here it is that i'm going to buy when 980 successor comes out.

Rampage V Extreme
16GB Corsair Dominator 2800mhz DDR4

Kranken X61
980ti/Titan 2
900D

Custom Sleeved cables etc.

The total cost right now, with the 5820K is 3120€ including the upcoming gpu (800-900€)

I'm not planning to do that much of an "content creation" not any everyday heavy rendering etc. Just some streaming, while gaming etc. Reason enough to upgrade my current 4770K to 6-core one. Also i'm not gonna go SLI because i think that's an waste of an money.  Also i'm going to OC my cpu as high as i can.

However. If you consider my total situation what you guys think. Should i put extra 600-700€ to 8-core one rather than 5820K, are i'm gonna to see huge improvement over the 5820k? 

Probably if i'm going to go with the 5820K i'm going to upgrade to Broadwell-e aswell when it comes out.

What you guys think?, Cheers!

[SeanBond]

If that's all your doing please save your money. You won't see the slightest difference if you have that 4770k already overclocked. Only rendering times will improve. And that is IT

[Enderman]

Unless youre doing contect creation on a daily basis and making money from it, the 4770k is enough. You're going to notice a loss of performance if you go from a 4770k to a 5820k or 5960x. because of the slower clock speeds.

 

Gaming and streaming will NOT use 12 threads. buying x99 is a waste of money if thats what you will use it for.

[Archangel1994]

Streaming while gaming is not at all reason enough to upgrade to a 5820k since the 4770k is MORE than capable of doing so. You are wasting money by getting a $500 X99 motherboard and a 5820k and DDR4 RAM (Which yields NO gains over DDR3 in gaming/streaming). Do not waste more money by getting the 5960x, that's just completely pointless for your goal

[arnavvr]

As others have said before, the 4770k is fine enough, but if you don't have 16Gb of ram already you might want to do so.

[NumLock21]

You're system is fine, upgrading to a X99 will be a waste.

[runit3]

I'm not planning to do that much of an "content creation" not any everyday heavy rendering etc. Just some streaming, while gaming etc. Reason enough to upgrade my current 4770K to 6-core one. Also i'm not gonna go SLI because i think that's an waste of an money.  Also i'm going to OC my cpu as high as i can.

 

X99 is not for you then. There is no reason to go X99 if all you're doing is gaming and streaming. 4770k/4790k are more than sufficient. x2 SLI is not a waste of money IMO, at least in regards to games that actually support SLI, and you don't need X99 to do it.

 

X99=rendering/productivity/compute/encoding beasts, the ability to game is just a nice side venture from their intended use.

[fapman]

Yes i know that in performance wise there is not really a point to go with X99. 

But i consider myself an "enthusiast" and i love the tinkering and OC'ing the crap out of the newest most shiniest hardware. And also in some software testing and tinkering i have noticed that my 4770K max's out all the cores a lot of times. And also the idea of 6-core "futureproof" (i know you guys hate this word) sounds really good to my ears.

And because i'm probably going to upgrade every year or so my pc, because it's my hobby and passion. For that specific reason in a year i'm going to go full custom loop watercooling unit, that's why i have the 900D in my list. And for that reason aswell i'm willing to buy those DDR4 sticks.  And who knows, maybe i'm going to put that another GPU in there. 


I know that i'm going to get a lot of hate from this upgrade, going from 4770K to X99. but i know that i'm going to regred it if i don't buy it now.

[runit3]

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If you're going to defy all logic and reason you may as well buy 3 5820k's for the price of one 5960X and see which OC's the best...your own little ES bench of sorts...