5820K price drop when Skylakes appear?

Greebo · 27 Jul 2015 at 09:55

5820k is fine if you use the M2 as well.

I have my 290x running at 8x each and a SM951 in my M2 slot no problems.

WHo knows, i might lose 1 fps with some game in the future but for the price of the 5820K its a steal.

apostolis_kt · 27 Jul 2015 at 10:02

Greebo said:
5820k is fine if you use the M2 as well.

I have my 290x running at 8x each and a SM951 in my M2 slot no problems.

WHo knows, i might lose 1 fps with some game in the future but for the price of the 5820K its a steal.

Hey Greebo, shouldnt one 290x be 16 lanes, the other 8 and the m2 4?

Mr Oblong · 27 Jul 2015 at 21:47

They're so niche I don't think they'll respond to the arrival of Skylake chips.

Greebo · 27 Jul 2015 at 22:14

apostolis_kt said:
Hey Greebo, shouldnt one 290x be 16 lanes, the other 8 and the m2 4?

I'll have to check but I have other things in the other PCI slots so think I'm on 8 and 8 but perhaps I am 16 and 8. Doesn't make any difference anyway. Certainly not the extra money the 5830k costs

apostolis_kt · 28 Jul 2015 at 07:28

Greebo said:
I'll have to check but I have other things in the other PCI slots so think I'm on 8 and 8 but perhaps I am 16 and 8. Doesn't make any difference anyway. Certainly not the extra money the 5830k costs

Ok thank you.i just was wondering if you have other pcie-1 csrds ie a sound card or extra usbs if they detract from the sum of the 28 the cpu supports.i read somewhere that maybe it doesnt because there is a mobo chip that supports the non x16 slots.ill go look it up. I am a person who gets constantly extra expansion cards and i was wondering if we lose any lanes by doing this. Indeed i dont believe the extra money for the 5930k is worth it, 3 cards and up maybe but not my cap of tea. One 680gtx currently is heating up my room i cant imagine 3 of that thing what would do.

Greebo · 28 Jul 2015 at 08:18

yeah i have a wifi card and pci-e xonar card. I remember i had to play around with my lane allocations to get it all sorted out but cant remember the outcome lol

Will check tonight.

But I am pretty sure that sli or xfire with 2 is fine on the 5820k. If going with 3 gfx cards or more you want the 5830k.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 28 Jul 2015 at 09:42

Datass said:
To be honest I think intel undercut themselves a little with the 5820k, it's a steal at that price.

Guess they are running out of price points to shove CPU's, haha.

The inflated price of the 47** CPU's is what makes it look so tempting.

apostolis_kt · 28 Jul 2015 at 10:56

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
The inflated price of the 47** CPU's is what makes it look so tempting.

Exactly this. The only thing that would hold you off would be the mobo/ddr4 prices but if you shop around you might not be that far if you wanted to get an expensive mobo for the DC processor vs the Haswell-E alternative. I think if i was going for a 4790k i would just try to go for the 5820k instead. On the other hand if i was going for an i5 then i would get that and throw the extra on a gpu.

spike2011 · 29 Jul 2015 at 14:24

Not priced around but can get a 5820k new retail boxed from good online store for £270 +£5 postage using a 10% off code seems a good price already.

Just made my mind up not waiting for Skylake got the deal paid £274.93 including postage using the above deal nice.

jamieboo · 30 Jul 2015 at 01:15

Ooh! 10% off code? How? Where?

Dave2150 · 30 Jul 2015 at 01:28

I'd wait for the Skylake reviews before buying anything.

If the early review below is anything to go by, the 6700k will be a much better choice for gaming on 1-2 GPU's:

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review-gaming-performance-5820k/

jamieboo · 30 Jul 2015 at 01:32

Yeah, I'll be doing some gaming, but mainly I'll be using this machine for music production and those extra cores are invaluable!

Greebo · 30 Jul 2015 at 06:56

Dave2150 said:
I'd wait for the Skylake reviews before buying anything.

If the early review below is anything to go by, the 6700k will be a much better choice for gaming on 1-2 GPU's:

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review-gaming-performance-5820k/

SO SINCE I CANT READ ITS GIVEN 2 TO 20% INCREASE depending on the game over a 4790k?

And 2 to 25% increase in games over 5820k? WHich looks impressive until you realise the 67000 will be runnign at 4.4Ghz turbo and the 5820K at 3.6Ghz so the 6700k is running at 20% faster clocks.

Therefore clockspeed for clockspeed in games the 5820k will be the same performance as the 6700k or up to 20% faster????

The 6700k will indeed have to clock like it says to 5.2Ghz on air to make it faster again in some games and will still be slower in some games.

Personally its looking like than unless there are some baord features you need, still no point upgrading from a 4790k and if you do other thinsg than game then a 5820k might eb a better option.

spike2011 · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:11

jamieboo said:
Ooh! 10% off code? How? Where?

Would get into trouble if gave out where but got the discount 10% off code emailed to me for all electronics save up to £100 max offer ends 1st August from a well know auction site so saved myself £30.
Had a 20% off code also that I used last week making me spend far too much money lol.

jamieboo · 30 Jul 2015 at 15:15

Dammit - I never received a nice email like that!
Och well, nevermind. Thanks anyway!

Dave2150 · 30 Jul 2015 at 15:20

Greebo said:
SO SINCE I CANT READ ITS GIVEN 2 TO 20% INCREASE depending on the game over a 4790k?

And 2 to 25% increase in games over 5820k? WHich looks impressive until you realise the 67000 will be runnign at 4.4Ghz turbo and the 5820K at 3.6Ghz so the 6700k is running at 20% faster clocks.

Therefore clockspeed for clockspeed in games the 5820k will be the same performance as the 6700k or up to 20% faster????

The 6700k will indeed have to clock like it says to 5.2Ghz on air to make it faster again in some games and will still be slower in some games.

Personally its looking like than unless there are some baord features you need, still no point upgrading from a 4790k and if you do other thinsg than game then a 5820k might eb a better option.

Yeh both CPU's would have been at stock, well turboing as high as the motherboard allowed them to.

If you're going to be overclocking whichever CPU you get, then it would be wise to see what the average 6700k overclock people are able to obtain. It's its 4.6Ghz+ it's still going to smoke to 5820k - not many of them can be clocked over 4.5Ghz after all.

David Bisset · 31 Jul 2015 at 11:52

Greebo said:
SO SINCE I CANT READ ITS GIVEN 2 TO 20% INCREASE depending on the game over a 4790k?

And 2 to 25% increase in games over 5820k? WHich looks impressive until you realise the 67000 will be runnign at 4.4Ghz turbo and the 5820K at 3.6Ghz so the 6700k is running at 20% faster clocks.

Therefore clockspeed for clockspeed in games the 5820k will be the same performance as the 6700k or up to 20% faster????

The 6700k will indeed have to clock like it says to 5.2Ghz on air to make it faster again in some games and will still be slower in some games.

Personally its looking like than unless there are some baord features you need, still no point upgrading from a 4790k and if you do other thinsg than game then a 5820k might eb a better option.

CPUs at different clockspeeds is how most of the crud on here about IPC changes gen to gen gets made up.

C64 · 31 Jul 2015 at 13:47

There's never any price drops on new stuff is there ? it just goes EOL.

Orangey · 31 Jul 2015 at 14:34

C64 said:
There's never any price drops on new stuff is there ? it just goes EOL.

Bingo.

apostolis_kt · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:10

Orangey said:
Bingo.

So a follow up question is if there are no price drops but they go EOL do they manage to selloff the whole lot at full price when newer gen products are out at same price?