6850K or 5960X ?

[TheNerdyCanadian]

I'm going to be doing a complete system upgrade soon, and after looking at the benchmarks I'm a bit conflicted. I'll be using my new PC for gaming as well as streaming/rendering and I'm not sure if its worth the $600 for the 8 core.

 

Currently the 6850K is $915, and the 5960X is $1500 with tax.

[Hydraxiler32]

if you can afford a 5960x why not go for a 6900k? They are basically the same except that the 6900k is slightly faster.

[Gaged]

6850k, has support for DDR4 and most games don't really utilize all 6/8 cores anyway.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Go dual Xeon E5-2670's like me! They're kick ass, plus you'll have 16 cores and 32 threads!

[Enderman]

no its not worth it

you can stream and render on an i5 or 4 core i7 if you wanted to

[SeanAngelo]

6 minutes ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

I'm going to be doing a complete system upgrade soon, and after looking at the benchmarks I'm a bit conflicted. I'll be using my new PC for gaming as well as streaming/rendering and I'm not sure if its worth the $600 for the 8 core.

 

Currently the 6850K is $915, and the 5960X is $1500 with tax.

i7 6700k

[Gaged]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

no its not worth it

you can stream and render on an i5 or 4 core i7 if you wanted to

True, you could save money by using a plain 6700k, but if you have a crap of money then go for the 6850k

[TheNerdyCanadian]

12 minutes ago, Hydraxiler32 said:

if you can afford a 5960x why not go for a 6900k? They are basically the same except that the 6900k is slightly faster.

because the 6900K is an extra $200 and i can just overclock the 5960X 

[TheNerdyCanadian]

49 minutes ago, Gaged said:

True, you could save money by using a plain 6700k, but if you have a crap of money then go for the 6850k

well for the build i want, it's not much more to go with a 6850K over the 6700K

 

[TheNerdyCanadian]

52 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

i7 6700k

i'm going X99, not Z170

[TheNerdyCanadian]

54 minutes ago, Enderman said:

no its not worth it

you can stream and render on an i5 or 4 core i7 if you wanted to

i have an i5 right now that isn't even enough for games at 1080p, let alone to stream at the same time...

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

i have an i5 right now that isn't even enough for games at 1080p, let alone to stream at the same time...

i would say that the problem is your GPU way more than the i5

[TheNerdyCanadian]

55 minutes ago, Gaged said:

6850k, has support for DDR4 and most games don't really utilize all 6/8 cores anyway.

The 5960X is DDR4 as well, also i'll be streaming at the same time, so having  extra cores free will give room for other programs like OBS, etc

[TheNerdyCanadian]

57 minutes ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Go dual Xeon E5-2670's like me! They're kick ass, plus you'll have 16 cores and 32 threads!

and how much will that cost? lol

[TheNerdyCanadian]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

i would say that the problem is your GPU way more than the i5

nope, my CPU is almost always getting pinned at 95-100% in most games now, the GPU barely gets past 80% unless playing at 1440P

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

2 minutes ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

and how much will that cost? lol

For the dual CPU's it'll cost about $120, and for the motherboard depending on which one you get it'll be between $200-$330. Also the RAM is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper, however I really only recommend this for productivity use as the CPU's don't have as high of a clock speed for more serious gaming.

[TheNerdyCanadian]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

For the dual CPU's it'll cost about $120, and for the motherboard depending on which one you get it'll be between $200-$330. Also the RAM is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper, however I really only recommend this for productivity use as the CPU's don't have as high of a clock speed for more serious gaming.

i can't even find anywhere that sells them, and Intel made them EOL Q2 of last year 

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

1 minute ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

i can't even find anywhere that sells them, and Intel made them EOL Q2 of last year 

You can find them on EBay, and even though they're no longer being produced they still kick ass and absolutely destroy the 5960X in multi threaded scenarios.

[TheNerdyCanadian]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

You can find them on EBay, and even though they're no longer being produced they still kick ass and absolutely destroy the 5960X in multi threaded scenarios.

it's tempting, but i think i'll benefit more from fewer higher clocked cores than a bunch of slower ones, i really just need a few spare cores for OBS to use while the other 4 are used by the game

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

2 minutes ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

it's tempting, but i think i'll benefit more from fewer higher clocked cores than a bunch of slower ones, i really just need a few spare cores for OBS to use while the other 4 are used by the game

Maybe consider a regular i7 / a Xeon 1231 v3? You'll have more than enough for modern gaming and streaming with either of those options.

[TheNerdyCanadian]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Maybe consider a regular i7 / a Xeon 1231 v3? You'll have more than enough for modern gaming and streaming with either of those options.

i would go mainstream but i'll be using more than 16 lanes  so the minimum would be the 5820K or 6800K, and i'd rather not have to upgrade the CPU later because i run out of lanes so it would be the 6850K

[The Realist]

5 minutes ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

i would go mainstream but i'll be using more than 16 lanes  so the minimum would be the 5820K or 6800K, and i'd rather not have to upgrade the CPU later because i run out of lanes so it would be the 6850K

id say go for the 5960x if you have money if you want to save $500 go for 6850K but both would be a great choose

[SeanAngelo]

16 hours ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

i'm going X99, not Z170

the 6700k is enough for what you need to do.

 

and you're having problems with gaming because its your GPU, not your CPU.

[typographie]

16 hours ago, TheNerdyCanadian said:

because the 6900K is an extra $200 and i can just overclock the 5960X 

The Haswell-E equivalent to the 6850K is the 5930K, so why not consider that instead?

 

(…and then if you're considering a 5930K, you may as well just get a 5820K unless you actually need 40 PCIe lanes.)

[Sintezza]

If you do allot of rendering work a 5960X wont be a bad investment.

However it just depends on what you are doing for kind of rendering workloads, and which application you are using aswell.

In some applications you can also use your current gpu for render acceleration.

But i would go with X99 any day of the week.

Wenn it comes to the 6 cores, if you realy need those 40 pci-e lanes, then yeah pick the 6850K or 5930K.

But if you dont need it, then dont botter with paying a $200,- premium for just 12 pci-e lanes.

But rather grab a 5820K or 6800K.