Has anyone gone x99 ?

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 01:29

Caracus2k said:
I'm currently running a 980 hex on an Asus WS Revo X58 Board with 12gb of 1600Mhz DDR3 ram. Later today should take receipt of a 5820K Asus x-99 E WS and 16gb 3000Mhz DDR4 ram.

I succumbed the upgrade itch mainly because I had no space to go SLI with a 2.5 space g/card, PCI-E SSD, USB3/SATA3 card and PCI-E sound card in the system.

I wanted to go SLI to go with the new ROG swift I ordered as well

So I also bought a second 980GTX Super Jet Stream

Going to run some benchmarks single card x58 vs x99 hex

On paper the 980 and 5820 look very similar with the 5820 only having some minor benefits in cache and whatever IPC improvements the last few years have given.

I'm not expecting much from the transition but have had 5 years service off x-58 with a couple of mid life upgrades 920->980 6gb->12gb added card for USB3 and SATA3 and been through a few graphics cards in the meantime!

Hope to get similar life our of X99 with perhaps a next generation Octo core being dropped in the future.

Will I get value for money out of upgrading? Actually not too bad not losing much on the x58 components that I have had for a few years most of the cost of the upgrade has been the swift and the second GPU for SLI

Ill post a thread over the weekend with the results if your interested

defo mate

abui1806 · 10 Jan 2015 at 01:53

Mine is:

i7 5820K
Asus X99-S
Crucial 16Gb 2400Mhz

The computer is mainly for gaming, but sometimes I render some intense 3ds Max projects for my girlfriend. So the 2 extra cores help a bit.

Boomstick777 · 10 Jan 2015 at 02:56

5820K + X99.

Had some early bios issues on UD4, most recent bios update had fixed them all, stable and performance is epic ! Well worth a lil extra over the mainstream stuff imho. All setup then for a Broadwell -E drop in upgrade next year.

OLDPHART · 10 Jan 2015 at 10:36

What position is that x99.

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 13:08

Benches would be against my hex core xeon....and this 6 year old x58 rig...

JustCallMeVlad · 10 Jan 2015 at 13:31

easyrider said:
Benches would be against my hex core xeon....and this 6 year old x58 rig...

It's not going to be pretty

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 13:34

JustCallMeVlad said:
It's not going to be pretty

I'm not so sure clock for clock

ALXAndy · 10 Jan 2015 at 15:17

JustCallMeVlad said:
It's not going to be pretty

Hmm.

When clocked to 4.4ghz the hex core Westmeres actually give my Sandy E a run for its money in Cinebench.

Clock per clock it's only 100 points behind, and I have a good clocking chip.

Personally Easy I think you're better off sticking to what you have. You got a pure, unadulterated bargain on that Xeon and X99 costs every penny for the performance you get, which, IMO, is very expensive.

I'd rather buy GPUs or a PCIE SSD.

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 15:20

ALXAndy said:
Hmm.

When clocked to 4.4ghz the hex core Westmeres actually give my Sandy E a run for its money in Cinebench.

Clock per clock it's only 100 points behind, and I have a good clocking chip.

Personally Easy I think you're better off sticking to what you have. You got a pure, unadulterated bargain on that Xeon and X99 costs every penny for the performance you get, which, IMO, is very expensive.

I'd rather buy GPUs or a PCIE SSD.

Yeah...you're right....it's massive bang for buck for 30 squids

JustCallMeVlad · 10 Jan 2015 at 15:25

ALXAndy said:
Hmm.

When clocked to 4.4ghz the hex core Westmeres actually give my Sandy E a run for its money in Cinebench.

Clock per clock it's only 100 points behind, and I have a good clocking chip.

Personally Easy I think you're better off sticking to what you have. You got a pure, unadulterated bargain on that Xeon and X99 costs every penny for the performance you get, which, IMO, is very expensive.

I'd rather buy GPUs or a PCIE SSD.

At 4.6Ghz a 5680 will score 1065cb in R15. My 5820K scores 1451cb. That's a good 27% difference.

X58 should be retired OP. You'll be much happier with X99

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 15:27

JustCallMeVlad said:
At 4.6Ghz a 5680 will score 1065cb in R15. My 5820K scores 1451cb. That's a good 27% difference.

X58 should be retired OP. You'll be much happier with X99

But in real world terms and games it's placebo ? No ?

I doubt I'll notice that much ?

ALXAndy · 10 Jan 2015 at 15:37

easyrider said:
But in real world terms and games it's placebo ? No ?

I doubt I'll notice that much ?

In gaming it will net you practically nothing.

Spend the money on GPUs.

Combat Fighter · 10 Jan 2015 at 20:02

easyrider said:
Will skylake just plop in ?

I think you'll need a different motherboard.

x99 won't support it. (Skylake-E)

It will be dead tech by then.

Stick with your Xeon and max out your system with the next gen gfx cards when they arrive.

That should scratch that itch (I'm in the same boat as you)

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 20:21

Combat Fighter said:
I think you'll need a different motherboard.

x99 won't support it. (Skylake-E)

It will be dead tech by then.

Stick with your Xeon and max out your system with the next gen gfx cards when they arrive.

That should scratch that itch (I'm in the same boat as you)

Think my mobo struggles with all ram slots filled...

....I want to go sli... Cause ...but my mobo requires a flash with a P6T bios not SE BIOS....it's risky...

I want a new 1440p 27" monitor in March

setter · 10 Jan 2015 at 20:42

Easy, I reckon your current xeon x58 system will be grand for a while yet. I've done both Ivybridge and haswell, i5 and i7 on the former, 1x 4770k and 2x 4790k on the latter. Neither chip was much better than my old 4c 8t i7 920. Sli a bit yes, single card no. Even with multi gpu, up the res above 1080 and CPU bottleneck is less of an issue.

Combat Fighter · 10 Jan 2015 at 20:50

easyrider said:
Think my mobo struggles with all ram slots filled... ....I want to go sli... Cause ...but my mobo requires a flash with a P6T bios not SE BIOS....it's risky...

I want a new 1440p 27" monitor in March

Well I've been using x-fire which is pretty much the same and 1440p for years now.

How much ram are you running? I use 12gb myself but with only 3 sticks.

easyrider · 10 Jan 2015 at 21:36

setter said:
Easy, I reckon your current xeon x58 system will be grand for a while yet. I've done both Ivybridge and haswell, i5 and i7 on the former, 1x 4770k and 2x 4790k on the latter. Neither chip was much better than my old 4c 8t i7 920. Sli a bit yes, single card no. Even with multi gpu, up the res above 1080 and CPU bottleneck is less of an issue.

I gotta flash the bios with another mobo bios

Combat Fighter said:
Well I've been using x-fire which is pretty much the same and 1440p for years now.

How much ram are you running? I use 12gb myself but with only 3 sticks.

12gb 6 x 2gb.... Two triple channel kits....I've got these for sale in MM in order to get 3x4gb instead... It's bugging me as I know this chip will do more....

If I can sell my ram in MM and outlay say 30 on another 12gb I'll do that....

setter · 11 Jan 2015 at 00:29

If you can get 12gb of Kingston 1600mhz, 3x4 combo. Its pretty good stuff. I moved to it from 6gb of very high end tightly timed ocz reaper. 6x2 on x58 is a bit hard to tweak and get stable, a weak imc on the CPU doesn't help. But that's hard to test. Is getting a o6t deluxe v2 a big outlay. Its the board I used, and very good. Could be bought for very little now. Heck I sold mine for peanuts over 2 years ago. Cant link as I'm on my phone. But I didn't sell the board, cpu and 12gb for big money.

Combat Fighter · 11 Jan 2015 at 00:34

JustCallMeVlad said:
My 5820K scores 1451cb. That's a good 27% difference.

X58 should be retired OP. You'll be much happier with X99

Don't seem that impressive to me.

Much happier with X99? I doubt that very much for the cost outlay.

Better off putting it towards some high end graphics cards.

easyrider · 11 Jan 2015 at 00:39

setter said:
If you can get 12gb of Kingston 1600mhz, 3x4 combo. Its pretty good stuff. I moved to it from 6gb of very high end tightly timed ocz reaper. 6x2 on x58 is a bit hard to tweak and get stable, a weak imc on the CPU doesn't help. But that's hard to test. Is getting a o6t deluxe v2 a big outlay. Its the board I used, and very good. Could be bought for very little now. Heck I sold mine for peanuts over 2 years ago. Cant link as I'm on my phone. But I didn't sell the board, cpu and 12gb for big money.

X58 mobos are like rocking horse *****

I need to sell the 12 gb patriot viper first....mate..