Just got the 5820K its amazing. lol 
I Oced it to 4.6Ghz at 1.31v the cache to 3.5Ghz at 1.2v and the Ram to 2400Mhz :P
What were the speeds on your 4790K?
4.8Ghz but the cache was stock
What do you mean a lot better.
in cpu demanding games like GTA V.
Shouldn't really be any difference unless your 4790k system was freaking out.
I have two 980Tis and I had the settings maxed, and GTA V will use as much cores as it can get lol
Do you have some additional sources to this statement?
Because that would be interesting.
And how much is "allot" better?
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Everyone here is skeptical.
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You should do a before and after benchmarks. Say Valley, PerformanceTest and Cinebench and a few games like GTA 5 or BF4 etc..
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So many games are just quad optimized I'd like to see benchmarks, considering the 4790k is faster per clock.
I'm quite sure its either A) the 980ti's having more PCIe lanes with X99 or B) placebo effect...
PCI-E connectivity really isn't a bottleneck now adays. you can run a titan X on a x4 PCIE3 and get no performance drops
Well basicly wenn both the 5820K and 4790K are clocked at the same clockspeed.
Then they should perform about equaly per core, since they are both the same architecture.
Thats why i´m interested to see benchmark or testing numbers.
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Even without sources i am not surprised at all.. x99 is quite the superior platform when a 5820K is used... Theres a lot more room for background tasks that typically can hold cpu intensive tasks back on a quad core.. Especially since games nowadays are finally taking advantage of 4 cores. I suppose what he says is possible. I think what most of us are starting to see now is overhead issues. Say a task starts in the operating system while the game is running but the game is taking most if not all 4 cores at the time. Well the game has its core affinity shifted around by the schedule so the other task can be completed on time. This shifting would not occur on a 6 core. Its just a theory really to explain what he has said
You know whats cool though. I heard theres a few games coming out with 6 core optimizations.. LOL that should be interesting
Im quite happy he is satisfied with his purchase lol
Yeah thats what i´m interested in.
How much additional cores "might" be able to improve scaling in certain games.
I don't have proper recording software but I can confirm these results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppDFcn8ul8
the real question is why are you pairing 980ti sli w/ 4790k?