Choosing between 6700k, 5820k, 5930k and 5960X

spoffle · 23 Oct 2015 at 20:15

theaterix said:
Would customs check the package? Or what is the fine if caught

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theaterix · 23 Oct 2015 at 20:50

spoffle said:
Configure your trust! Click on the trust icon under one of your own posts and follow the instructions, I can give you a little help with this sort of stuff.

That should be it, will it go to emails?

spoffle · 23 Oct 2015 at 21:00

Yep.

faceman123 · 24 Oct 2015 at 00:04

5960x

Tephnos · 24 Oct 2015 at 01:47

Personal opinion: Skylake.

X99 mobo failure rate is far too hit and miss, and its not a secret. After going through it myself I'm done with X99.

Lord Alibaski · 25 Oct 2015 at 19:10

Tephnos said:
Personal opinion: Skylake.

X99 mobo failure rate is far too hit and miss, and its not a secret. After going through it myself I'm done with X99.

I've been looking at the 5820K myself recently but I have read 2 messages in the last couple of days and this is putting me off.

Is the problem really that bad!

Tephnos · 25 Oct 2015 at 19:18

Well, I'm going to try again after calming down.

Will let you know how it goes.

Retron · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:53

Lord Alibaski said:
I've been looking at the 5820K myself recently but I have read 2 messages in the last couple of days and this is putting me off.

Is the problem really that bad!

Doubt it's that bad! A friend at work has the same motherboard as me (a Gigabyte UD5 Wifi), both of us bought them a year ago. Neither of us have had any problems with our boards - as you'd expect, really.

I would imagine that people who have had problems are a vocal minority.

Given the choice between a quad-core Skylake or a six-core Haswell-E, especially at current prices, the Haswell-E would win every single time. More cache, more cores, more PCI lanes (useful with the new NVMe drives), more DDR4 DIMM sockets. My 5930K clocks happily to 4.2GHz, my friend's 5820K manages the same speed just fine too, so even the 4GHz stock speed of the Skylake i7 isn't really much of an advantage.

Simon Belmont · 26 Oct 2015 at 17:57

Tephnos said:
Personal opinion: Skylake.

X99 mobo failure rate is far too hit and miss, and its not a secret. After going through it myself I'm done with X99.

This^ Truth^ Finally someone sees the light.

Hedge · 26 Oct 2015 at 21:50

Well I went the other way and ordered 5820k and Asus Sabertooth x99. Obviously some people seem to be ****ging it off now and Im worried lol.

Cost wise has been £460 for CPU and board. Not sure how much a Skylake setup would have been, probably cheaper due to motherboard prices I expect.

Hopefully no real dramas.

setter · 26 Oct 2015 at 21:59

Either are decent chips, I've recently moved from a 4790k to a 5820k. Not played a lot of games on the latter so far. But anything I have doesn't feel any different.

Simon Belmont · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:04

Hedge said:
Well I went the other way and ordered 5820k and Asus Sabertooth x99. Obviously some people seem to be ****ging it off now and Im worried lol.

Cost wise has been £460 for CPU and board. Not sure how much a Skylake setup would have been, probably cheaper due to motherboard prices I expect.

Hopefully no real dramas.

I heard about the motherboard failures also. That's why I went Skylake. Extremely happy

Of course it wont feel any different. Because 6 core isn't needed. Any time soon either.

Combat Fighter · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:27

Simon Belmont said:
Because 6 core isn't needed. Any time soon either.

Keep telling yourself that.

Enjoy your poor mans chip.

jwsg · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:49

There is no skill involved in assembling a PC from what are simply the most expensive components on offer. Better is the selection of efficient parts appropriate to the task and for most of us the GPU dominates.

GAM8LE · 26 Oct 2015 at 23:18

Hedge said:
Well I went the other way and ordered 5820k and Asus Sabertooth x99. Obviously some people seem to be ****ging it off now and Im worried lol.

Cost wise has been £460 for CPU and board. Not sure how much a Skylake setup would have been, probably cheaper due to motherboard prices I expect.

Hopefully no real dramas.

I just bought an x99 setup tonight. 5820k as well but I went for the Asus x99-pro.

I have heard the bad press about x99 as well as the Asus board but have also read a lot more positive reviews so I'm hopeful everything goes well.

Caracus2k · 26 Oct 2015 at 23:40

Tephnos said:
Personal opinion: Skylake.

X99 mobo failure rate is far too hit and miss, and its not a secret. After going through it myself I'm done with X99.

Simon Belmont said:
This^ Truth^ Finally someone sees the light.

Stop scarring the kiddies! Some early boards sent out had some problems mostly due to beta BIOSes that caused some big hardware failures. The enthusiast platform (-e) often showcases new tech (i.e DDR4) that then filters down to the consumer chipsets when matured and a few early teething problems do not an unreliable platform make. Also given the 'Enthusiast' tag/nature for X99 I wonder whether more end users are being somewhat more adventurous with their overclocking endeavors than a good deal of people buying into consumer platforms contributing to higher room for error and damage with the former. (I would not at all be surprised to learn that as a percentage there are more overclocked CPU's on Haswell-E then Skylake for example)

Kaapstad · 28 Oct 2015 at 08:22

5960X if money is no object.

X99 with a 5960X is a really nice platform now it has had chance to mature.

Silent_Scone · 28 Oct 2015 at 09:04

Kaapstad said:
5960X if money is no object.

X99 with a 5960X is a really nice platform now it has had chance to mature.

LOL

Caracus2k said:
Stop scarring the kiddies! Some early boards sent out had some problems mostly due to beta BIOSes that caused some big hardware failures. The enthusiast platform (-e) often showcases new tech (i.e DDR4) that then filters down to the consumer chipsets when matured and a few early teething problems do not an unreliable platform make. Also given the 'Enthusiast' tag/nature for X99 I wonder whether more end users are being somewhat more adventurous with their overclocking endeavors than a good deal of people buying into consumer platforms contributing to higher room for error and damage with the former. (I would not at all be surprised to learn that as a percentage there are more overclocked CPU's on Haswell-E then Skylake for example)

X99 failure rate is no more or less than any other platform. From being active in support threads, I can tell more often than not it falls down to user error. A lot of users mistakenly input VCCIN into the vcore box, it's not as difficult a mistake as some may admit. I've read people fitting the incorrect backplates to the boards causing shorting / mounting issues. The Chinese whispers occurred when Legit Reviews experienced a failure with their X99 Deluxe - which was a combination of a manufacturing defect on a mofset - which instigated a power up phase issue on the VCCIN rail, on certain older PSU which had no OCP enabled by default. The power up phase was modified accordingly to prevent such an unlikely event even further.

smsmasters · 28 Oct 2015 at 09:32

Combat Fighter said:
5960X all the way

He won't need the 5960X if his primary usage is gaming.

Silent_Scone · 28 Oct 2015 at 09:58

Chart Wars, old game I choose you!

Potentially worth while if he's also considering another GPU.