4790K+Z97 or 5820K+X99 ?

[sick-lizard]

with that workload you will be fine you may wish to throttle or pause your downloads though if you are online gaming at the same time, no need for a lagfest

Keep an eye on your vm ram usage though if you skimp on ram provisioning the vm's can start paging which isn't nice.

Bare in mind some of the hypervisors now offer ram deduplication so if you run multiple copies of the same OS they won't actually use double the memory footprint

 

[R3X]

thanks sl for the information its good to know got some choices on my next hardware!

 

[Boomstick777]

Used both, 5820K all day long baby.

Tbh it's not even a choice, if you're about to build a new PC 5820K + X99 makes way more sense, you're getting a CPU with spec similar to 4960X with better IPC and DDR4 support.

Get the 5820K !

 

[R3X]

Used both, 5820K all day long baby.

Tbh it's not even a choice, if you're about to build a new PC 5820K + X99 makes way more sense, you're getting a CPU with spec similar to 4960X with better IPC and DDR4 support.

Get the 5820K !

I know am considering 5930K even, if I go 5820k its £200-£250 more then an 4790K/Z97 setup or 5930K setup its £250-300 more.

Its the lack of DDR4 in stock holding me back, also am really considering if its required lol

 

[yoyo59]

personally I think you will get more for your money by going z97, with x99 you will have to get low budget motherboard and low budget ram which is probably high latency, I just think you can get a nicer build going with z97, the i7 4790k is already faster than x99 in single threaded tasks & some games, if I was you id go z97 because broadwell will be out soon and will be even faster 5-10% is still faster


dont get me wrong I was thinking of going x99.. but its just not worth it over a z97

because if im going to commit I don't want a low budget mb or ram if I can get a more for my money from a different platform


bottom line is if your willing to spend that extra cash im talking more than £200 maybe extra £400-500

depends how you feel I just like shiny things some people dont care what motherboard or ram or cooling they have just care about CPU, I guess everyones different

goodluck with your choice!

 

[trisp]

5820k is a pretty decent cpu for single gpu setup's

 

[R3X]

personally I think you will get more for your money by going z97, with x99 you will have to get low budget motherboard and low budget ram which is probably high latency, I just think you can get a nicer build going with z97, the i7 4790k is already faster than x99 in single threaded tasks & some games, if I was you id go z97 because broadwell will be out soon and will be even faster 5-10% is still faster


dont get me wrong I was thinking of going x99.. but its just not worth it over a z97

because if im going to commit I don't want a low budget mb or ram if I can get a more for my money from a different platform


bottom line is if your willing to spend that extra cash im talking more than £200 maybe extra £400-500

depends how you feel I just like shiny things some people dont care what motherboard or ram or cooling they have just care about CPU, I guess everyones different

goodluck with your choice!

Well some good points I would not say the motherboards and ram are that bad, quick reviews on the ram modules shows even the slowest DDR4 vs fastest DDR4 is like 2-3fps more and the Mobos are still pretty good the ones that are £165-185 still have the same features a £100-130 Z97 mobo has.

Playing around with etailers and basket shopping I could still pick up the 4790k/z97 package for around £600-650, cheapest to mid X99 route a good £850-950 or best X99 kit ie Asus X99 bundle 1k-1.5k.

It is quite true though I won't see diddly difference games don't look like they even see those extra cores past 4 and am not video/graphic editing either so it makes sense to stick with 4790k/z97 platform.

But I keep telling myself its just an extra £200-300 quid lol> tbh I should use that cash on Nvidias new card

No one can go wrong with any choice really both are stupidly fast and would last many years no doubt.

 

[Boomstick777]

personally I think you will get more for your money by going z97, with x99 you will have to get low budget motherboard and low budget ram which is probably high latency, I just think you can get a nicer build going with z97, the i7 4790k is already faster than x99 in single threaded tasks & some games, if I was you id go z97 because broadwell will be out soon and will be even faster 5-10% is still faster

Yeah that's not true bud..

My UD4 was similar price to my Z97 UD5. The UD4 is superior. The amount of stuff you get with the board as well. Impressive for the money.

4790K isn't faster either, clock the CPU's to the same speed and X99 is faster.. I'm saying this as someone who has owned both setups.

Unless you really need an IGPU or don't want to fork out a bit extra for DDR4 over DDR3, than X99 is the way forward. Remember you won't need to delid either.. Now X99 is here no real reason to go Z97 unless your budget can't stretch to DDR4.

 

[Serial45]

I'm currently faced with the same question and after reading the thread I'm now leaning more towards the x99 setup.
Going to go all out I think with the asus rampage 5, 5930k and 3000mhz ram