It depends if you want to upgrade really. We have chips that will smash a 5820K from as little as £90 now and others that are many leagues ahead.
You can easily make a much bigger jump in performance than a i7 920 to a i7 5820K today.
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5820k where's it stand today?
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It depends if you want to upgrade really. We have chips that will smash a 5820K from as little as £90 now and others that are many leagues ahead.
You can easily make a much bigger jump in performance than a i7 920 to a i7 5820K today.
WOW I just googled some youtube trailers of this new flightsim
It going look amazing on a large 4k TV
(Bet am going to need to fork out for something like a 2080ti to run best graphic settings at 4k
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WOW I just googled some youtube trailers of this new flightsim
It going look amazing on a large 4k TV
(Bet am going to need to fork out for something like a 2080ti to run best graphic settings at 4k
New Xbox target is 4K 60fps with ray tracing. So I would wait until it comes out before considering.
If it used hybrid RT as is rumoured a 5700XT would be sufficient however you might need a 3700X
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Framerate stutter = upgrade now (why wait?)
Butter smooth = dont upgrade
Butter smooth = dont upgrade
WOW I just googled some youtube trailers of this new flightsim
It going look amazing on a large 4k TV
(Bet am going to need to fork out for something like a 2080ti to run best graphic settings at 4k
It looks amazing on my 65inch OLED and to be honest is much more immersive than my usual triple screen set up.
This is a very good first impression review and well worth a watch and a good listen to:
I've just broken a system that I took as a trade in, with a 5820K and an Asus X99 board, sold the CPU and board, and 16GB DDR 2666MHz RAM for £260, and that was without a cooler.
For that money plus an additional £60, I can buy a MSI Tomahawk MAX, a Ryzen 5 3600, and 16GB Corsair DDR4 3200MHz. Would it be an upgrade, probably not but you can bet that the X99 system will be worth about £150 in 6 months time. If you have one and are on the fence, then I'd look at what will offer you a better value over the coming couple of years. Drop in the 3600 for now, and then you are primed for a 4xxx CPU if you feel the need.
For that money plus an additional £60, I can buy a MSI Tomahawk MAX, a Ryzen 5 3600, and 16GB Corsair DDR4 3200MHz. Would it be an upgrade, probably not but you can bet that the X99 system will be worth about £150 in 6 months time. If you have one and are on the fence, then I'd look at what will offer you a better value over the coming couple of years. Drop in the 3600 for now, and then you are primed for a 4xxx CPU if you feel the need.
I'm waiting it out until my current CPU no longer does what I require of it, mainly being able to max my GPU out in games at the rez of my monitor.
wait till end of this year coming new amd stuff which will be upto 15-20 percent better over current ones and the new intel proper cpus start in 2021. 5820k is fine for this year in every way. overclocked its as fast as a amd 3600 in games. some games the overclocked 5820k will even beat the 3600. so no reason to upgrade unless you obviously are having issues.
I changed from OC 5820k to 3600.
There is no noticeable difference between the two.
An x99 motherboard was pretty expensive and a bit of a dead end, the b450 motherboard might take a much faster CPU as a future upgrade.
I'm running a Vega56 and I will need a much faster GPU to really push the 3600.
Which is exactly my point, make hay while the sun shines, so they say.
X99 is going to be worth 40-60% less than it is now by the time the newer CPU's are out. You can spend very little now and and it'll cost you less in the long term, and unless you need newer motherboard features the performance would be the same on a B450/X670 etc.
it does make sense what you say. you got lucky on the price you sold yours for. realistically you lucky now to get even £200 for that set up. infact whoever brought that for that needs there head looking at. especially with ram for 16gb at £50 right now. you can literally buy a 3600 board and ram for £270. the thing is what will the 5820k mobo and ram drop to maybe £150 for all the lot. so you lose about £50 waiting for a year. you will lose at least that and have a low end amd board. so makes no real sense to do so. you might as well just stop with the 5820k. you going to lose at least £50 on the 3600 anyway. so you swapping for no real reason.
I'd call it normal. Not allowed to link but there is an almost identical kit on that famous auction site now, Asus X99 deluxe, 5820K, 16GB DDR4 2400MHz, sitting with two bids at £214, and 4 days left to run. £260 a pretty standard price for this sort of kit at the moment, and as such the advice stays true, sell it while it is worth selling. Even 4770K/4790K's have now started dropping in price, a few months ago the CPU's were fetching £200 easily, now it is more like £125-140.
Incredible checklist that will no doubt save our wallets
This is what I'd do, CPU upgrades would keep you going for years. By then DDR5 would be mature and the kit would still be worth something.
the problem with that is they wont support the newer cpus. so makes no sense to do so. just hold off for the end of year. then look at what the amd 4000s are doing. you jump now you will be thinking i wish id just waited a couple of months to get a better platform and faster. also a lot of the issues with 3000s will be sorted.