Should i stay with 4790k or go 5960x?

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 19:59

stulid said:
What board would you get if you went X99?

Not sure but i have spent a few days checking reviews and love the sound and reviews so far on the Asus X99-E WS Intel X99 and it would also work well colour wise with other components i might get.
Oh and ssd would need to be a Intel DC P3600 Series 400GB SSD PCI-e Adaptor Card Solid State Drive, reviews are mental on them and it seems a huge leap forward as far as storage goes, this would be my os and steam games unit.

stulid · 7 May 2015 at 20:01

Black+Orange isn't to your liking?

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 20:05

stulid said:
Black+Orange isn't to your liking?

Not really, thinking black and silver or black and white atm.

yaboydom · 7 May 2015 at 20:08

some one mentioned it only being worth it if tri sli and xfire? why would SLI be ok on the 4790k platform but not Xfire?

stulid · 7 May 2015 at 20:13

2way SLI or Xfire is fine on a Z97 board that does 8X/8X (it needs to do a minimum of 8X on a slot to get SLI certification anyway).

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 20:22

savagesam117 said:
You have to have a 1000 posts, or be on the forum before 2010 I believe.

I'll take the donation haha, I'm just kidding btw

In all seriousness when i do my upgrade (aprrox 3 weeks) ill give you my 4790k including the board and memory if you donate £75 to the nspcc or a £150 donation if i include my reference 290x too , id send you the items or you could collect and then show me the donation at a later date, id be more than happy to do that

yaboydom · 7 May 2015 at 20:31

stulid said:
2way SLI or Xfire is fine on a Z97 board that does 8X/8X (it needs to do a minimum of 8X on a slot to get SLI certification anyway).

Thanks for that im running a 4790k on a z97 board and was looking to add a second 290x to my system (board is SLI read and obviously xfire ready)

wasn't sure if i'd have bottle neck issues but im guessing not.

savagesam117 · 7 May 2015 at 20:39

Twisted Kid said:
In all seriousness when i do my upgrade (aprrox 3 weeks) ill give you my 4790k including the board and memory if you donate £75 to the nspcc or a £150 donation if i include my reference 290x too , id send you the items or you could collect and then show me the donation at a later date, id be more than happy to do that

I'd be more than happy to do that. Let's take this to trust

Edit:

You need to activate your trust!

setter · 7 May 2015 at 20:42

yaboydom said:
some one mentioned it only being worth it if tri sli and xfire? why would SLI be ok on the 4790k platform but not Xfire?

I mentioned sli as the op has an nv card, but xfire in a dual card setup is still more than fine on Z87/97. The cpu's on this chipset do clock higher too than X99, and tbh not a lot of games make use of multiple cores.

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 21:12

savagesam117 said:
I'd be more than happy to do that. Let's take this to trust

Edit:

You need to activate your trust!

Ok i'll keep you posted, as soon as i order my bits and there installed i will holla at you.

Regards

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 21:13

setter said:
I mentioned sli as the op has an nv card, but xfire in a dual card setup is still more than fine on Z87/97. The cpu's on this chipset do clock higher too than X99, and tbh not a lot of games make use of multiple cores.

Cheers for that info will bear it in mind.

savagesam117 · 7 May 2015 at 21:23

Twisted Kid said:
Ok i'll keep you posted, as soon as i order my bits and there installed i will holla at you.

Regards

Okay, thank you. It's very kind of you.
Just send me over a trust when your ready

setter · 7 May 2015 at 21:24

Twisted Kid said:
Cheers for that info will bear it in mind.

Its a nice dilemma to be in tbh, I'm a Z series owner with old dual sli cards. Which perform well in games. I'm mainly a gamer myself, (bf4). Which the 4790k with sli 780 does very well. But the cards are old now and lack vram. I'm waiting on the gtx 980ti/390x to see how things fare on a gaming point. CPU wise, any recent Intel cpu is still pretty good. I've owned Ivybridge i5, i7 x3 haswell i7's from 4770k to 4790k. All great gaming cpu's with dual card sli.

OracIe · 7 May 2015 at 21:34

If I were you, I wouldn't do it.

I went from an i5 4670K to a 5930K which I instantly regretted and ended up with a 4970K which I'm extremely happy with.

In some cases I find the 4970K to be quicker at certain things. (Booting windows, loading office apps etc.)

Cat_J · 7 May 2015 at 22:20

Personally I would keep your kit and spend the money really going to town on the watercooling. You'll have more fun with all the overclocking you'll be able to do and I find building good watercooling more satisfying that just putting PC hardware together.

Charity donation idea is great though.

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 22:53

setter said:
Its a nice dilemma to be in tbh, I'm a Z series owner with old dual sli cards. Which perform well in games. I'm mainly a gamer myself, (bf4). Which the 4790k with sli 780 does very well. But the cards are old now and lack vram. I'm waiting on the gtx 980ti/390x to see how things fare on a gaming point. CPU wise, any recent Intel cpu is still pretty good. I've owned Ivybridge i5, i7 x3 haswell i7's from 4770k to 4790k. All great gaming cpu's with dual card sli.

Ok thanks makes sense and will help which direction i go in.

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 22:59

OracIe said:
If I were you, I wouldn't do it.

I went from an i5 4670K to a 5930K which I instantly regretted and ended up with a 4970K which I'm extremely happy with.

In some cases I find the 4970K to be quicker at certain things. (Booting windows, loading office apps etc.)

To be honest i would not consider upgrading to a 5930 from my 4790, id only change if i felt the 5960x would give me what i was looking for in performance and also importantly future proofing in regards to multiple gpu's.
So far i am swaying towards the 5960x and that's just from reviews i have read in the last few hours on this forum, i spend most of my gaming hours on X-plane 10 ( Flight sim fan and avid fs pilot since 1998 ) so max performance in this sim is critical (more gpu dependent than most games) as well as future proofing games like Gt5 and its siblings.

Twisted Kid · 7 May 2015 at 23:02

Cat_J said:
Personally I would keep your kit and spend the money really going to town on the watercooling. You'll have more fun with all the overclocking you'll be able to do and I find building good watercooling more satisfying that just putting PC hardware together.

Charity donation idea is great though.

I have budgeted £650 for water cooling and that will cover what i need after reading tones of post's on here.
Always intended on water cooling but my fear keeping my current rig as it stands is that in a short period of time i will change my key components and end up having to do it all again!
Never water cooled before but confident i can handle it but not keen on doing it more than once in a short period of time.

BluD · 8 May 2015 at 06:42

Your upgrading from a 4970k for gaming

Have you thought about getting a big 4k screen instead, if i had the kinda of money your throwing into this system i would be looking at getting a nice big 4k monitor, then youll give your Titans something to do, especially if your going sli.

If you are already 4k res then i would just throw another titan and a big PSU in and enjoy.

Could i ask what sort of % CPU usage are you getting in GTA atm, i only get about 50%, but im guessing my GPUs are bottlenecking it, does it actually tax your CPU once you throw a titan x at it?

Cat_J · 9 May 2015 at 00:37

BluD said:
Your upgrading from a 4970k for gaming

Have you thought about getting a big 4k screen instead, if i had the kinda of money your throwing into this system i would be looking at getting a nice big 4k monitor, then youll give your Titans something to do, especially if your going sli.

If you are already 4k res then i would just throw another titan and a big PSU in and enjoy.

Could i ask what sort of % CPU usage are you getting in GTA atm, i only get about 50%, but im guessing my GPUs are bottlenecking it, does it actually tax your CPU once you throw a titan x at it?

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