It is just how intel roll they know they have the market cornered so they can charge whatever they like and justify it however the want. And you KNOW you will pay a premium for overclocking while still throwing out the stock cooler, intel know this too. Screw the person who is going to pay more any way because they are an enthusiast, charge them more again!
Some of us are struggling to pay for our third homes! /s
That highly depends on the usage.
Also not all 5820KĀ“s can easaly reach 4.5Ghz on all cores.
Crap. And I just bought the 4790k....oh well
Don't worry there will be 8 more refreshed and socket styles before the snows come again.
OCD, hehehe. ( its ok, i understand :O)
thank yu for the link :D
Even for gaming, anything that bottlenecks 4 haswell cores at 4.5ghz is going to have support for more than 4 cores.
And also the latter can be said for any cpu really.
whut?
Games dont use more then 4 main cores,
those extra cores of a 5820k dont realy help that much.
the 4790k and 6700k are still be better chips for gaming.
X99 only makes sense if do allot of productivity, but for pure gaming its not realy worth it.
If games don't use more than 4 cores(/threads whatever) then why do xbone and ps4 have 8 core cpus?
Pretty much all new games that both run on the new consoles and pc can utilize more than 4 threads.
Most of the time they don't need to at all, as modern intel quad cores are already much more powerful than the 8 cores found in consoles.
Essentially you should go with x99 if you're a enthusiast that spends a lot of time on the computer.
And another huge bonus with x99 is that you can just swap out the 5820k for a salvaged dirt cheap broadwell-e xeon that you get off ebay.
Another thing that's nice about HEDT is that the stuff is actually well made compared to the mainstream series, which is intels milk cow more or less.
well some games can, but it still doesnt show any significant performance bump in those so called multithreaded games.
4790k and 6700k are still better chips for gaming, and i dont see any of that change in a long while
Dx 12 gameing is allmost here = more cores there are allready game's that have support or have been pached to support up to 8 cores.
Overclockers UK announces X99 system Ā£50 less than equivalent i7 Skylake system. (lol)
ā¢ X99 supports quad channel, compared to Skylake's dual channel ā¢ X99 has more PCI-E lanes
ā¢ Skylake can be overclocked higher, however X99 is still the overall top performer
ā¢ The price is very similar
ā¢ Skylake performs better in single threaded gaming but X99 performs better in multi-threaded gaming.
ā¢ When it comes to rendering, physics, Photoshop or any creative work, X99 smashes Skylake out the water
well like i said, i have never seen any game realy perform significantly better on a 5820k
from a productivity standpoint, i do see the benefits for X99.
But for gaming, simply nope.
Also AAA games are getting more and more gpu demending,
so in the terms of "future proofing" it still doesnt make that much sense to me.
unless you want to go crazy on multiple gpu setups or what not.
like i said, i have never seen a game perform significantly better on a 5820k, there will probably a couple out there,
but in most games not realy.
But yeah thats my opinnion about it. āŗ
Anyway, i do see the reasoning behind going for X99.
Since both cpuĀ“s basicly cost the same, and with the 5820k you basicly get more for your money wenn it comes to raw power for productivity and stuff.
If with dX12 games are realy going to benefit or not from more cores, is something that we dont realy know right now.
But yeah if you are a hardcore gamer + streamer, and like to do some recording and stuff aswell, run a couple of vmĀ“s at the same time. and do some rendering. yeah the 5820k is definitely a great work horse.
In my case i would personaly go for X99 aswell, pure because i do more then just gaming.
i7s don't have any significant advantage over i5s, K versions that is when it comes to gaming.
The platform is more important than the cpu performance, because it dictates what you can do with the system later.
Good example is LGA 1336 vs LGA 1156 back in the day, friend was going to go the 1156 rout as it was more than enough for gaming, they performed similarly.
But the thing is that now, many years later he can just swap out his current i7 950 for a X5650 which I'm going to give him soon.
Free upgrade to a 6 core cpu that overclocks very well without changing anything else, which at that speed is about as good as a 4790k.
yeah thats what i said allready.
It depends on the ussage.
5820k is realy a great work horse, basicly you get more for your money in terms of processing power for productivity
THats why i said, i do understand the reasoning behind going with the 5820k X99 over the skylake chip at the same price point.
i will go with X99 myself aswell, pure because i do more then just gaming.
Its a disgrace that they're even selling such expensive chips without soldering the IHS onto the die.
X99 is love, X99 is life.
THe 6700k should be cheaper then the 5820k definitely.
Not sure what the prices ofthe MS Z170 boards are going to be, and i also need to check if the current unlocked skylake chips still supports certain feutures like vt-d and such.
