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Hey guys.

 

How does the  I7 5930k hold up/compare with new CPU's. Is it time for an upgrade?

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The 5930K holds up fantastically against SLX. SLX's main advantages are AVX512, a better speedstep, and somewhat higher clocks on some of the higher core count SKUs.

Otherwise, the 5930K has 40 PCIe lanes, the 7800X only has 28. I'd say that for 6 or 8 cores, an upgrade to X299 from X99 isn't a good upgrade unless you specifically need AVX512 and its benefits.

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Just now, Lurick said:

In what situation?

Pure gaming?

Multi-tasking?

Pure gaming at 3440 x 1440.

I have not issues with it currently but with all the current CPU talk it got me thinking seeing as I have had this CPU for a while now.

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4 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Pure gaming at 3440 x 1440.

I have not issues with it currently but with all the current CPU talk it got me thinking seeing as I have had this CPU for a while now.

I wouldn't worry about it for a while.

GPUs at that resolution tend to be where most everything lies so I would look at upgrading the GPU first.

I'm rocking a 5930K and dual 980Tis and have no plans to upgrade or see the need to upgrade for a long while.

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19 minutes ago, Lurick said:

I wouldn't worry about it for a while.

GPUs at that resolution tend to be where most everything lies so I would look at upgrading the GPU first.

I'm rocking a 5930K and dual 980Tis and have no plans to upgrade or see the need to upgrade for a long while.

Cool. I have two 1080's at the moment so I am happy with that too. What rez do you game at?

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3 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Cool. I have two 1080's at the moment so I am happy with that too. What rez do you game at?

2560x1440 144Hz

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2 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Cool. I have two 1080's at the moment so I am happy with that too. What rez do you game at?

 

Out of curiosity, why not clock the chip up a bit higher.  That will definitely increase single-threaded and low core utilization performance.  You'll enjoy that chip for a good while to come.

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1 minute ago, done12many2 said:

 

Out of curiosity, why not clock the chip up a bit higher.  That will definitely increase single-threaded and low core utilization performance.  You'll enjoy that chip for a good while to come.

I have it running at 4ghz.

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2 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

I have it running at 4ghz.

 

I saw that in your signature.  Question remains, why not clock it up a bit higher?  :D

 

If you are thermally limited to 4 GHz, I completely understand and disregard my suggestion, but Haswell-E is a great overclocker and known for scaling quite a bit higher than 4 GHz.

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Just now, done12many2 said:

 

I saw that in your signature.  Question remains, why not clock it up a bit higher?  :D

 

If you are thermally limited to 4 GHz, I completely understand and disregard my suggestion, but Haswell-E is a great overclocker and known for scaling quite a bit higher than 4 GHz.

Tbh im scared. I never really understood the whole overclocking process. The only reason why its not at stock is because there was an option on my bios that looked easy.

CPU - i7 8700K / Motherboard - ROG Strix Z370 E/ RAM - 32GB Cosair Vengeance DDR / GPU  - GTX 1080ti - EVGA FTW3 / PSU - Seasonic Snow Silent 750W / Cooling - Cryorig H7 Monitor - Acer X34 Predator / Sound - Corsair Void - Case - Meshify C

 

 

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1 minute ago, Nosfy said:

Tbh im scared. I never really understood the whole overclocking process. The only reason why its not at stock is because there was an option on my bios that looked easy.

 

Truthfully, it's nothing to be scared of and chances are if you are using an auto overclock from the motherboard, it's already running more voltage than it actually needs.  

 

You have a pretty nice cooler and I have no doubt that you can take that 5930k quite a bit further while remaining perfectly stable.

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Just now, done12many2 said:

 

Truthfully, it's nothing to be scared of and chances are if you are using an auto overclock from the motherboard, it's already running more voltage than it actually needs.  

 

You have a pretty nice cooler and I have no doubt that you can take that 5930k quite a bit further while remaining perfectly stable.

I shall give it a go :). Fortune favours the bold.

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6 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

I shall give it a go :). Fortune favours the bold.

 

If you need help, don't hesitate to ask here or PM someone you trust.  It really is too easy though.  CPU core clock, memory and then cache in that order.  Test each for stability along the way and use manual voltage until you've determined the require voltage for your clocks.  Once you are done with all of your testing, you can then switch to adaptive or offset dynamic voltages by using the same voltage that you used for manual.

 

Good luck.

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