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No. Not at all. The 6950x has no place in the world of sane people, it's only for people that value stats over sense.

 

Buy the 6900k, if you really think you need an 8 core CPU.

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6900K will be fine

 

if you need the 10 cores of the 6950X

grab one of these

Xeon E5 2660 V4

14 cores for $1500

 

 

or two  Xeon E5 2630 V4's for 20 Cores for $1400

 

for video editting get the  two Xeon E5 2630s for 20 Cores

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3 minutes ago, Majsterek said:

Video ediditing , 3d rendering , Gaming 

No, the i7 6950X kinda like the new Titan X. Reserved for the people who want the best of the best regardless of money.

 

Be smart and get either a i7 5820K or if you really need a 8-core CPU, the i7 5960X. Overclock the latter and it'll rival an overclocked i7 6900K

'Fanboyism is stupid' - someone on this forum.

Be nice to each other boys and girls. And don't cheap out on a power supply.

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7 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

No, the i7 6950X kinda like the new Titan X. Reserved for the people who want the best of the best regardless of money.

Except that it's not actually the best in vast mojority workloads and in workloads it is best, there are comparably priced xeons that do better job overall.
I agree with others, you should be looking at 6800/6900 skylake and put saved money into watercooler so you can actually overclock the it to range of about ~4.6-4.7Ghz on 6cores, ~4.5Ghz on 8cores.
From what I've heard, 6950X doesn't particularly overclock too well so it's gonna be less than "best" as far as games go.

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