What do? 5820k or 6700k?

[MidgetBoxing]

Hello!

 

Let me preface this by saying I live in AUSTRALIA. Not America. And as such, the 5820k costs MORE money than a 6700k, by about $60 ($579, $519 respectively). The motherboard I would get if I was going for a 6700k would run me about ~$300 AUD and the cheapest kinda not shit 2011-3 are $400+ minimum, many costing way more than that. So I was wondering, is it worth the extra ~$200+ (depending on mobo) to go for a 5820k over a 6700k? I play World of Warcraft and Battlefield 4 mainly, with a bit of video editing, but I'm starting software engineering next year at uni, and was thinking the extra grunt of the 5820k may be useful for some of the visualization stuff we do.

 

If you reckon the 5820k is just like much better overall than a 6700k, what is a good x99 motherboard I should take a look at? Would like to be able to overclock so I can bring the 5820k up to the speed of a 6700k for single threaded work loads as it is at a lower clock than a 6700k.

 

Cheers

[ThinkWithPortals]

 

What price is a 4790K over there? Performs as good as the 6700K but cheaper, and the boards and RAM will likely be cheaper.

 

Anyway, I always say that the 5820K is a better buy. It's not that much more to pay for 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads. Single threaded performance should be just fine and overclocking is no problem. For a cheap X99 board with still tonnes of features I recommend either the MSI X99A SLI PLUS or, if you're of the more gamery persuasion or you like black and red, the MSI X99A GAMING 7.

[kameshss]

Get the 5820k, it has 6 cores rather than 4 cores present on 6700k.

 

It'll benefit you in Video Editing.

 

Get a cheap X99 motherboard that suits your needs.

[DunePilot]

x99 pretty much has the three chips available you can see there on new egg... skylake is a little cheaper and kabylake will be coming out on it in a year. The 5960X is much better than any skylake but if you aren't getting it then its six one way half a dozen the other... up to you and what you can find down under I guess. Sorry for the bleak answer but its really how it is, upgrade path for skylake is kabylake, upgrade path for x99 is 5960X.

[MidgetBoxing]

What price is a 4790K over there? Performs as good as the 6700K but cheaper, and the boards and RAM will likely be cheaper.

 

Anyway, I always say that the 5820K is a better buy. It's not that much more to pay for 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads. Single threaded performance should be just fine and overclocking is no problem. For a cheap X99 board with still tonnes of features I recommend either the MSI X99A SLI PLUS or, if you're of the more gamery persuasion or you like black and red, the MSI X99A GAMING 7.

 

A 4790k is $515, only like $4 cheaper than a 6700k  :huh:

[ThinkWithPortals]

A 4790k is $515, only like $4 cheaper than a 6700k  :huh:

OK, forget that then. I vote 5820K and either the MSI X99A SLI PLUS or the GAMING 7.

[YT2002]

What price is a 4790K over there? Performs as good as the 6700K but cheaper, and the boards and RAM will likely be cheaper.

 

Anyway, I always say that the 5820K is a better buy. It's not that much more to pay for 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads. Single threaded performance should be just fine and overclocking is no problem. For a cheap X99 board with still tonnes of features I recommend either the MSI X99A SLI PLUS or, if you're of the more gamery persuasion or you like black and red, the MSI X99A GAMING 7.

About the same, Haswell CPUs cost the same as Skylake

[Aereldor]

Neither. Get a Xeon E3 1231 V3. It's a 4790k at stock speed without the integrated graphics but about $75 to $100 cheaper.

Spend the extra money on a better graphics card. Programs like Adobe Premiere (along with most other editing software and every 3D rendering engine out there) support hardware acceleration and will definitely take advantage of that.

Don't know what you'd use the 6-core for. There aren't many benefits of a 6-core CPU over a hyperthreaded quad-core when it comes to gaming and general development tools and 3D rendering engines.

[MidgetBoxing]

Thanks for the replies! I'm going with a 980 Ti so money saved probably won't get me anything better in the gpu department. I'm still torn, as aereldor said, I'm not sure if the 6 cores are gonna help much over a quad with hyper threading? Any development tools utilise the extra cores?

[Fetzie]

x99 pretty much has the three chips available you can see there on new egg... skylake is a little cheaper and kabylake will be coming out on it in a year. The 5960X is much better than any skylake but if you aren't getting it then its six one way half a dozen the other... up to you and what you can find down under I guess. Sorry for the bleak answer but its really how it is, upgrade path for skylake is kabylake, upgrade path for x99 is 5960X.

The 6950X (10c/20t) is supposed to be on the LGA 2011v3 platform.

[DunePilot]

The 6950X (10c/20t) is supposed to be on the LGA 2011v3 platform.

Nice leak, a 22 core 44 thread Xeon coming out too. Lord have mercy. I bet it has a pricetag just as big to go with it. 

 

Pretty much guaranteed lots of new revision X99 motherboards I would guess since it will spur a new round of buying.  

[Fetzie]

Nice leak, a 22 core 44 thread Xeon coming out too. Lord have mercy. I bet it has a pricetag just as big to go with it. 

 

Pretty much guaranteed lots of new revision X99 motherboards I would guess since it will spur a new round of buying.  

 

I wouldn't expect to pay less than 6000 dollars a piece for that