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Looks at prices! 
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Intel’s Broadwell-E Flagship Core i7-6950X Processor Confirmed – 10 Core Madness For X99 Enthusiast
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For most consumers, that's strictly not true. Heavy simulation or encoding work maybe. That's certainly not most situations lol.
How so? Are you referring to the Xeon comparisons?
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Silly priced for a desktop. Becomes quickly unmanageable from a cooling point and can't overclock for toffee.
On the workstation side it's cheaper than a lot of Xeons options but it's not really a stand out CPU in the Xeon world. For a very similar price you can have a 28 thread 3.6Ghz chip with the options of adding a second CPU.
It's an oddball chip that offers very little/nothing in either world.
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I think the only question here is, if someone was in the market for a 5820k are they better off going and buying a 6800K instead.
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Correct however you WILL need to update your bios before removing the 5820k
Awesome, just checked on the Asus page and my motherboard has a new bios out.
That price though, I would go for the 5860k before this at the moment
Considering the 6800k looking to be around £60 more on launch for next to no improvement it's a hard sell over the 5820k
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Yeah, I was going to get a 6800K today but got a 5820K instead after looking at the gaming benchmarks which showed practically no difference. Couldn't justify spending the extra money for that.
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you also pay extra for the super high overclocking potential of BW-E. JK
So £2K for a 6950X+X99+DDR4 excluding a decent GPU.
Or £1k for 5960X+X99+DDR4!
I think I would buy a 5960 system its not like anything really needs 16 threads let alone 20! I knew Intel would find a way to sting the consumer though as it re-uses the same 2011V3 socket they cannot sell yet another motherboard variant so they price gouged the CPU
Or £1k for 5960X+X99+DDR4!
I think I would buy a 5960 system its not like anything really needs 16 threads let alone 20! I knew Intel would find a way to sting the consumer though as it re-uses the same 2011V3 socket they cannot sell yet another motherboard variant so they price gouged the CPU
So £2K for a 6950X+X99+DDR4 excluding a decent GPU.
Or £1k for 5960X+X99+DDR4!
I think I would buy a 5960 system its not like anything really needs 16 threads let alone 20! I knew Intel would find a way to sting the consumer though as it re-uses the same 2011V3 socket they cannot sell yet another motherboard variant so they price gouged the CPU
Not quite 2k for the 6950x setup unless you go to town with the Mb and ram, cpu's on pre order for just under £1400...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...rocessor-retail-bx80671i76950x-cp-617-in.html
You would not get a 5960x setup for 1k at retail prices either!
(the 6950x is still very expensive compared to haswell-e cpu's)
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It is as a decent X99 motherboard is around £350-400 + DDR4 + 6950X=£2K.
5960X can easily be had for around £780 + DDR4 + X99 cheaper motherboard=£1K
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decent motherboard is around £200-£250 mate. 350-400 would be enthusiastic and above £400 is flagship.
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I am in the process of building a new system, and had the 5960x in mind but thought I would wait to see B-E prices/performance. I am now undecided between the 5960x and the 6900k, I must admit I am new to all of this as this will be my first build, and after looking at many reviews and benchmarks they seem neck-and-neck with very little difference in results.
Should I go for the 5960x or get the new 6900k?
At the moment it seems the 5960x would overclock better (?) so maybe go with that?
New? It is £850+ new on most places, where did you see it at £780?
I am in the process of building a new system, and had the 5960x in mind but thought I would wait to see B-E prices/performance. I am now undecided between the 5960x and the 6900k, I must admit I am new to all of this as this will be my first build, and after looking at many reviews and benchmarks they seem neck-and-neck with very little difference in results.
Should I go for the 5960x or get the new 6900k?
At the moment it seems the 5960x would overclock better (?) so maybe go with that?
New? It is £850+ new on most places, where did you see it at £780?
Depends on the Mobo. I noticed the Asus X99 Deluxe has a new Bios update that says support for the latest i7-X Processors.
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All existing boards should recieve an update eventually.
So £2K for a 6950X+X99+DDR4 excluding a decent GPU.
Or £1k for 5960X+X99+DDR4!
I think I would buy a 5960 system its not like anything really needs 16 threads let alone 20! I knew Intel would find a way to sting the consumer though as it re-uses the same 2011V3 socket they cannot sell yet another motherboard variant so they price gouged the CPU
So your comparing apples to oranges! Cheap 5960x setup vs expensive 6950x setup! Compare like to like mb's and memory and it doesn't cost £1000 extra for the deca core..... It's a big jump but not quite that bad.... Hyperbole does not make a good (serious) argument...