Hey Everybody, I've finally joined the forums and I was looking for the advice and I now this is the best place I know to get it from. I have recently come across the ability to obtain an Intel E5-2683 v3 for pretty cheap (it's not an ES model don't worry). I am gonna use it for video editing/encoding etc as well as gaming (rocket league, black ops 3, Overwatch etc). I was wondering how you guys might think it will perform for gaming, for reference I have 16gbs of DDR4 currently as well as 6700k and gtx 1080, will it perform too much worse? Motherboard I have in mind for it is MSI X99 sli plus ( I checked compatibility it works) thanks for the help in advance!
Its going to perform about the same as an FX 8300 in gaming.
In rendering and sinilar is baller, but gaming will see a big drop from the 6700k in a lot of games.
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Really? Do you know how many cores it turbos to 3GHz on?(I dont) Cus I would have assumed it would at least perform as well as a i5-4460 due to having at least a 3Ghz boost
*Edit just saw you have one so I would assume you know performance lol, can you tell me the kind of FPS you get?
the 30mb of cache will help a lot vs 8 mb of the 8350, but assuming your game is locked to 2-4 cores, it'll be about the same as a 8350. if the game can use all the cores then shared cache of the 8350 lets the xeon outperform with it's better cache and 28 threads, but that wont happen for a while probably?
I have the ES (which is a tad different but not a lot) and I also have played with the retail chip... Retail hits 3 on one core. 2.9 ghz on 2 cores. An iirc 2.2 ghz on all cores.
So... The gaming difference will be very noticeable. In a number of benches the single core scores of both retail and ES sit right around the AMD FX 8320/8350
So in a lot of the games that don't use a ton of cores but like speed you will see big FPS drops coming from an i7 6700k
In the ones that only care about the gpu you'll be fine
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Hmm that is really dissapointing. :( I was hoping I would be able to maintain fps at least a bit (I owned an 8350 at one point got the 6700k to get away from it)
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Its funny you say that as my main rig is now an fx 8370 at 4.5 ghz to get away from the ES version of that chip
Main reason: the ES I have has this strange tendency to clock itself to 1.2 ghz when playing games or other tasks that are only using 1-4 cores
I'm sure this is an ES bug tho as it never happens on retail chips
Ultimately do you think that I can maintain an fps still decent enough to justify my 144Hz monitor?
Debatable
If its 144Hz 1440p
maybe
144Hz 1080p...
Why do you have a 1080 That's overkill times 100 lol
Side note: GTA will not run without changing things every time the game runs with too many cpu cores btw
It's 144Hz 1440p, I dont play too much GTA if I need to I can disable some cores lol. As for the GTX 1080 I lucked out, I had about $600 of birthday money and during it's launch month someone on ebay mis listed it for $500 (maybe thinking it was a 1070? IDK) so I am really happy with it.
*Edit does the resolution increase really require that many more instructions from the CPU? Oh and the seller has a CPU-Z screenshot that says it is stepping C0/C1, that sounds like ES to me is that what your ES is?
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Also just found this for a good price E5-2690v4, this work better?
Somewhat better
2.6-3.5ghz with 35mb of cache is pretty decent
Probably still will be noticing a drop tho in gaming from the 6700k ... Not sure how much but still quite a drop
Also can you tell me what stepping revision yours is? And thank you for all your help! That'll be my last question
Uhh
Let me dig that up lol