Intel 5820k or wait for new releases

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Hello from Slovenia, love the channels and forum, its a nice fountain of knowledge and entertainment. I have a question for Wendell.

I am in the middle of building myself a purely video editing computer. Since my budget is not unlimited i have settled on getting the 5820K, but since in June Intel is gonna release new CPUs and the specs seem to be out there already, should i wait for those or do you think for the money i will not be getting anything more if i wait.

The machine will be doing Adobe suite (Premiere, AE and Photoshop mostly, and some Cinema 4D for motion graphics also)

Maybe some reccomendations?

Thanks in advance.

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Broadwell is only about 5% faster than haswell, don't worry about waiting. 5820K + 32gbs of RAM is going to be more than enough in most cases.

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I agree, looking at intels past 5 generations of cpus, there has only been 5-10% difference per generation depending on application.
I don't really check the prices on old hardware but from what I remember cpus don't really get discounted, they get discontinued and then are unavailable.

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I tend to agree, was just wondering if it was worth waiting for the, I think its the 6800K and 6850K that will be coming out and will carry about the same price tag as the 5820k. I mean they are still 6 cores, 15MB L3 cache with a slight bump in the frequencies. The only thing that might be better is they might have 40 Pci lanes instead of 28 with the 5820k - not sure about that ...

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Cmon now, Intel, Generous with their CPUs?

They just locked down overclocking on non Z chipset boards

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Thanks for the help guys, I am gonna overclock the 5820 to about 4Ghz anyway so the slight bump in the FREQ aint doing nothing to me. Just wanted to check before buying and building :-) You know what they say, 2 heads know more then one, unless they are both as drunk as Logan on a haloween LAN party :)

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Broadwell is days from being launched, wait for 6820k, really.

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I would personally wait for the new CPUs to come out and see if it's worth to pick up the new SKU or snag the 5820K for a good price (since it's an old CPU and retailers want to get them aways to make space for the new ones).

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I have a 5820k, very happy, but, being this close, it may be worth waiting just for the power consumption improvement. Totally worth waiting IMO, however, if you pull the trigger on the 5820k, you won't be disappointed, it's a beast.

EDIT: I should mention, the day Broadwell-E ships I'm buying the mid-range 8 core, and selling my 5820k, and I'm not the only one. Seems there's a lot of good reason to wait honestly.