X99 getting Xeons soon?

[GrumpyNoodles]

I think I saw on a forum somewhere that X99 motherboards would be going up in value as socket 2011-3 Xeons flood the market from large companies upgrading. Has that happened yet? I might want an upgrade to my current processor.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Hunt on ebay. There starting to get cheap. The high end parts like the e5 2699 v4 won't be cheap, but chips like the e5 2690 v3 are about 300-400 usd. But for a lot of desktop tasks they will be slower due to their slow clock speed, so not really a big improvement for most users.

[Razor Blade]

Not really any sort of expert here but seems like the market won't truly "flood" until the leasing companies start liquidating inventory and resellers start snapping up inventory to list...which is probably a while off for that generation CPU. It's already happened for socket B and even socket R (original 2011).

[GrumpyNoodles]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Hunt on ebay. There starting to get cheap. The high end parts like the e5 2699 v4 won't be cheap, but chips like the e5 2690 v3 are about 300-400 usd. But for a lot of desktop tasks they will be slower due to their slow clock speed, so not really a big improvement for most users.

So do you think any Xeon would have any value over my i7 6850K ?

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, GrumpyNoodles said:

So do you think any Xeon would have any value over my i7 6850K ?

what are you using your pc for?

[Jurrunio]

9 minutes ago, GrumpyNoodles said:

So do you think any Xeon would have any value over my i7 6850K ?

none of them can be overclocked, so if you work prefers single core performance more than sheer core count, the 6850k is still better.

[GrumpyNoodles]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what are you using your pc for?

Mostly Premiere Pro and other Adobe suite programs

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, GrumpyNoodles said:

Mostly Premiere Pro and other Adobe suite programs

xeons probably won't be faster, maybe in some specfic uses, but that 6850k will be faster for most uses as most adobe apps like clcock speed and core count.

[GrumpyNoodles]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

xeons probably won't be faster, maybe in some specfic uses, but that 6850k will be faster for most uses as most adobe apps like clcock speed and core count.

Ok thank you! On a side note isn't a GPU supposed to accelerate Premiere? I've only gotten tops 3-4% usage during playback and export. Not sure if you know I just thought of it.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, GrumpyNoodles said:

Ok thank you! On a side note isn't a GPU supposed to accelerate Premiere? I've only gotten tops 3-4% usage during playback and export. Not sure if you know I just thought of it.

yep a gpu will help. You won't see a high usage during normal playback as only some codecs and effects use the gpu. Make sure the gpu is enabled in project settings.

[luigi90210]

10 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

none of them can be overclocked, so if you work prefers single core performance more than sheer core count, the 6850k is still better.

this is not true, the E5 16xx v3 can be overclocked and have an unlocked multiplier just like their i7 counterparts 

 

 

21 minutes ago, GrumpyNoodles said:

So do you think any Xeon would have any value over my i7 6850K ?

if you want a cheap upgrade get an e5 1680 v3 QS chip, on ebay its going for $380 and its an unlocked 8core processor