5960X or 6900K? Which one for Gaming, Videoing, 3Danimating and more...

[zYx]

Hi all,

I will be upgrading my supercomputer in the next few days, with two 1080s, new board and new CPU.

I am aware of other threads, but I am really only considering those two CPUs:
5960X and 6900K. OC-wise the 5960X can go up to 4.6 and the 6900K to 4.4 as far as I'm concerned. What does it depend on? Would a £500 motherboard make a difference comparing to a £250 motherboard? Would (water)cooling MOSFEts and the Chipset make any difference?
Both have 8 cores, but the biggest difference I am seeing is transistor's size, 22 and 14nm.

My system is water cooled, with a massive radiator from a car if this makes any difference.

I am using my PC for a lot of stuff.

Which one should I go for? And what would be your reason?

 

[zYx]

8 Pack, what motheboard do you have? what are the temperatures?

 

[zYx]

Overclocks are never guaranteed. But might it not be better to go with a many-cored Xeon?

I've seen people recommending Xeon, but what is the overclocking situation?

 

[zYx]

Hi all,

thanks for your input.

Is it possible to know what batch the CPU is, say before I buy it?

In relation to Xeon's, the idea of having so many cores :] is great, but I think I'm gonna skip it this time. I'm switching from i7-2600K, 4 cores.

Don't get me wrong, but I'm not really sure what the difference between the X and the K is.

Also, the new 6900K allegedly supports faster RAM?

 

[zYx]

I am in the same boat (also opened a thread about it), and I am going with the 5960x. Its tried and tested, the chances of higher stable overclock are higher, its also cheaper. It would have been nice if the 6900k provided a solid case for a better performance, but all the evidence point to a very small improvement at clock and an inferior performance when OCed.

Would be interested to hear what motherboard you end up with

I'm thinking asus strix. I was considering R5E or Deluxe II, but I probably don't need all those extras. What about you? What motherboard are your considering?

My basket is now "full" and I'm (almost) ready to buy.

 

[zYx]

haha this is almost like being wine from a certain year. anyway if im planning to get two 1080gtx with moderate workload (50+ tabs on google chrome when doing academic journal research) what would i7 6700 beat haswell broade?

My current setup is enough for what you want. I often have multiple browsers with literally hundreds of tabs open. i7-2600K OCed to 4.8Ghz 24/7 since I bought it + only 8GB ram. And HD7990.

 

[zYx]

huh really? thanks. been working on a windows surface for the last 3 years and havent touched a decent workload machine for quite a long time. entire laptop starts lagging after 30 or so tabs

Yeah my machine is fantastic, but owning a 4K monitor and playing games at 1080p is not funny anymore

Which surface?

 

[zYx]

I think I'm also gonna get the 5960X, but I want to make sure I get the best possible board for it.

 

[zYx]

Strix is the one I want (£100 less than r5e), but not sure....
I don't like the M.2 socket on Deluxe II