Need to make CPU decision

[PeggersXtreme]

Hi Guys,

 

So my X99 motherboard developed a fault with the bios chip and so Amazon asked me to return it for a full refund. Now I need to decide whether to stick with my 5960X or sell it and get the 6700k as I no longer do much rendering and mostly use my PC for gaming I am wondering if I would be better of getting the 6700k. I use 2-way Titan X's and never plan to do more than 2-way SLI as the benefits of more than 2 gpu's isn't usually worth the cost. 

 

What do you guys think stick with 5960x or make the swap to the 6700k 

 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

I would say 6700k if only gaming

[Guest]

Stick with the 5960x ffs 

[thekeemo]

Is the downgrade from a 5960x to a 6700k worth the $200 you will be getting?

[Redis]

with 6700k you save a lot of money...and for gaming its enough

[ReesZRB]

Hi Guys,

 

So my X99 motherboard developed a fault with the bios chip and so Amazon asked me to return it for a full refund. Now I need to decide whether to stick with my 5960X or sell it and get the 6700k as I no longer do much rendering and mostly use my PC for gaming I am wondering if I would be better of getting the 6700k. I use 2-way Titan X's and never plan to do more than 2-way SLI as the benefits of more than 2 gpu's isn't usually worth the cost. 

 

What do you guys think stick with 5960x or make the swap to the 6700k 

Titan X SLI BAD IDEA, Abort mission.

 

Get 5960X and get some 980 Ti and SLI

[Inception9269]

Hi Guys,

 

So my X99 motherboard developed a fault with the bios chip and so Amazon asked me to return it for a full refund. Now I need to decide whether to stick with my 5960X or sell it and get the 6700k as I no longer do much rendering and mostly use my PC for gaming I am wondering if I would be better of getting the 6700k. I use 2-way Titan X's and never plan to do more than 2-way SLI as the benefits of more than 2 gpu's isn't usually worth the cost. 

 

What do you guys think stick with 5960x or make the swap to the 6700k 

 

you could sell the 5960X and get a 5930k, more than you need but you'd get like $400 back.

[PeggersXtreme]

Is the downgrade from a 5960x to a 6700k worth the $200 you will be getting?

 

Titan X SLI BAD IDEA, Abort mission.

 

Get 5960X and get some 980 Ti and SLI

 

I already have the Titan X's I got them before the 980ti's came out so I was one of the people Nvidia screwed over with the 980ti's

[Kobathor]

I'd sell the Titans to some idiot then get 980ti's. Keep the 5960x, it'll last you forever and a half. 

 

Is the downgrade from a 5960x to a 6700k worth the $200 you will be getting?

that too ^^

[ReesZRB]

I already have the Titan X's I got them before the 980ti's came out so I was one of the people Nvidia screwed over with the 980ti's

Sell them if you have a chance

[PeggersXtreme]

Sell them if you have a chance

I already looked into it after selling costs and stuff I would end up getting about £100 back not really worth it imo so I just stuck with them but I hate how bad the Titan X's Coil Whine compared to my friends 980ti which is silent.

[TheRandomness]

Sell them if you have a chance

And make like £100 in savings from selling Titan Xs (USED) and then buying 2 980Tis.. Not worth it. Also, @PeggersXtreme stick with 5960x for bragging rights.

[PeggersXtreme]

you could sell the 5960X and get a 5930k, more than you need but you'd get like $400 back.

I could get about £600 for it here and I already got £300 back for my motherboard from amazon because of the fault a 6700k and MSI z170A M7 would cost £469 so I would get £430 back in total changing to the z170 platform

[PeggersXtreme]

And make like £100 in savings from selling Titan Xs (USED) and then buying 2 980Tis.. Not worth it. Also, @PeggersXtreme stick with 5960x for bragging rights.

Someone else told me to keep it for the same reason because I won the silicon lottery and got a good overclocker that can do 4.8 at 1.36v

[Benji_w]

Hi Guys,

 

So my X99 motherboard developed a fault with the bios chip and so Amazon asked me to return it for a full refund. Now I need to decide whether to stick with my 5960X or sell it and get the 6700k as I no longer do much rendering and mostly use my PC for gaming I am wondering if I would be better of getting the 6700k. I use 2-way Titan X's and never plan to do more than 2-way SLI as the benefits of more than 2 gpu's isn't usually worth the cost. 

 

What do you guys think stick with 5960x or make the swap to the 6700k 

 

I'd rather keep the X99.

[toogamer]

Someone else told me to keep it for the same reason because I won the silicon lottery and got a good overclocker that can do 4.8 at 1.36v

Just keep it, I wouldn't even think about downgrading to the 6700k

[PeggersXtreme]

I'd rather keep the X99.

 

I've seen various benchmarks all saying different things about the 6700k some say it gain 5-6fps in games and others state increases of up to 15fps more

[TheRandomness]

Someone else told me to keep it for the same reason because I won the silicon lottery and got a good overclocker that can do 4.8 at 1.36v

HOLYSHIT Yes you did win.

[pcgamer3223]

if you like the 5960x and like it keep it or switch to 5960k (if you like the 5960 performance style, the 6700 k might give you slightly better monitor throughput and hard drive handling, if you are upgrading you might also consider a SAS ^ gb/s hard drive and a amd pci ram accelerator(slot L3), or/and a monitor upgrade(though i do not know your monitor situation

[PeggersXtreme]

Just keep it, I wouldn't even think about downgrading to the 6700k

If I keep it which board would be best to get I'm going red theme and MSI is my brand of choice due to their superior customer service I was looking at the gaming 9 as it has similar features to my old Xpower board that went dodgy twice for some reason same fault both times. The Gaming 9 is about £30 more than the Xpower the Gaming 7 doesn't really have everything I want on it and also only has a single 8-pin CPU power which i'm not sure if my CPU will be able to reach that high clock speed with as I was using a 8-pin and a 4 pin to achieve 4.8ghz or I could go full on stupid and get the x99 Godlike gaming but that board doesn't seem to have anything more to offer than the gaming 9 other than a different audio chip.

[Inception9269]

Someone else told me to keep it for the same reason because I won the silicon lottery and got a good overclocker that can do 4.8 at 1.36v

 

damn son. If you can do overclocking like that then keep it. it would be suicide to just throw something like that away.

 

If you were to sell it you could sell it to an overclocker that would pay hundreds extra for a 5960x that can overclock that good.

[Benji_w]

I've seen various benchmarks all saying different things about the 6700k some say it gain 5-6fps in games and others state increases of up to 15fps more

 

If you're gaming an i5 will do plenty good enough, if rendering etc stick with the X99.

 

I'll swap you a Z170 sabretooth board and some cash for your chip.

[PeggersXtreme]

If you're gaming an i5 will do plenty good enough, if rendering etc stick with the X99.

 

I still do some rendering and some streaming so the hyper threading on i7's is still helpful just whether I need 16 threads over 8 threads when only doing light rendering and streaming.

[PeggersXtreme]

One thing that worries me about skylake is quite a few people have been saying they have experienced random crashes is this a common issue?

[PeggersXtreme]

 

These are the two x99 board I was looking at and then the only z170 board I considered