Is the 5960X worth buying still with the possible 10 Core Broad-well E CPU Looming in a few months?
Do you realy need a 5960X?
Sadly I think so I am going to end up using my 5930k as a render box and get the 5960X or the 10 core whenever it comes out. I work a lot with AE and Premiere Pro and need something that will give me a bit more.
If you could hold out with the 5930K it might be worth waiting for the Broadwell-E chip.
However i have heard rumored prices arround $1500,- for the 6950X.
I think that would be a rediculous price point.
Of course its WCCF tech so take the article with a big grain of salt.
if it was 1500$ I wouldn't bother with it but is the improvement in Broadwell E going to be worth it for them extra two cores over the 5960X I am trying to get the best system I can without doing the dual xenon thing since that inst worth the price to me.
i understand.
Not sure wenn Broadwell-E will be launched.
I personaly think Q2 After computex in June, it might be worth waiting for.
I´m personaly concidering to wait for it aswell.
Because we might also see some newly refreshed X99 boards.
Which i´m interested in.
I hope this 10 core is in the 1,000$ range would make my life easy. Just the fact that it would be possible to get 10 cores at 4.0 or higher is just insane.
what about server grade xeons ? or dual socket motherboards ? anything there that fits your budget/needs?
None that I have seen all of them are way overpriced for the ones that would be worth while.
Have yuo considered using a Xeon part instead?
Are you really after core count or clock speed?
Are you using ECC memory?
Would you be overclocking?
Xeon e5's
E5-2628L v3 - 10/20 @ 2 -2.5 $1364
E5-2650 v3 - 10/20 @ 2.3 - 3 $1166
E5-4610 v3 - 10.20 @ 1.7 $1219
Also, maybe it's worth getting a second / third machine and doing network rendering. Since you're not going to be using those machines interactively as terminals/consoles that you'd have screens attached to, maybe it'd be easier to hit a pricepoint sweetspots for such a specialized use case.
A CPU in the hand is better than 10 cores in the bush.
Never ever wait because some new tech is "right around the corner" based on marketing / vaporware promises. Even when it does ship there is no guarantee that it will be any good. In order to be a card carrying member of the PC Master Race you have to buy now and know the price will drop next week and next month there will be something 10x better.
Don't postpone joy. That's life Bro. Accept your fate.
or older 16 cores for a fraction of the price of v3s
Those particular older Xeon´s will not be that great for abobe premiere rendering tbh.
Since they lack on AVX2.0 instruction set.
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missed that, thanks for pointing that out
It really depends on how badly you need your new system up and running. It doesn't sound like you're in a terrible hurry, and we're quite late into the Haswell-E cycle, so if you can wait another six to eight months, I'd do so.
However, if you do have that need right now, go for it and don't look back. Historically, you tend not to see earth-shattering benefits with single-generation upgrades, and on the mainstream side, Haswell to Broadwell wasn't a particularly amazing jump. If you bite the bullet with the 5960X now, the worst that could happen is that the 10-core comes out and is amazing, in which case you flip the 5960X, take a slight loss, and upgrade again. Even if you lose 200 or 300 bucks in the deal, getting that extra 6 to 8 months of computing now might be worth that much to you.
How badly do you need that extra power right now?
So the 5960X vs the Broadwell E 8 or 10 core wont be to much of a difference. besides the price might be $1,500 on the 10 core and that would be out of the range I would want to spend.
Well Wccf tech isnt the most reliable source on the internet tbh.
So those prices might be totaly wrong, in fact intels extreme editon cpu allways had a target price of $999,-
This was also the case wenn they went from ivybridge to Haswell.
Ivybridge were all 6 cores and Haswell got the first 8 core, which also $999,- wenn it came out.
Yea If I dont end up buying the 5960X I will probably just add 2nd GPU and bunch of noctuas and wait till this time next year for the 10 core.