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Currently 5820k where next?

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Im getting the upgrade itch and it has been long overdue if my history is anything to go by...

I mainly game 1440p 165hz but I also do photoshop work, website work and occasionally stream.

currently I’m on 5820k @ 4.2 (can get it a bit further but it does not like much more) 32gb 3200 and rtx 2080. Custom loop with plenty of headroom.

I was looking at 10900k but like many my attention has been drawn by AMD

What is going to give me a solid improvement in FPS and overall system response? Am I worth waiting things out a little longer at this stage or do I go with one of the current options.
 
Zen 3 launches November 5th, assuming there's no stock shortages that would be your best bet in most circumstances.

That said, the 5820K is still a capable CPU, are you literally just wanting to upgrade for gaming or do you do other things that might benefit from additional cores?

I'd recommend monitoring your CPU and GPU usage via MSI Afterburner's OSD to see if your CPU is even acting as a bottleneck, I suspect it isn't really holding you back much if at all for 1440P.
 
Gray2233 said:
Zen 3 launches November 5th, assuming there's no stock shortages that would be your best bet in most circumstances.

That said, the 5820K is still a capable CPU, are you literally just wanting to upgrade for gaming or do you do other things?

I'd recommend monitoring your CPU and GPU usage via MSI Afterburner's OSD to see if your CPU is even acting as a bottleneck, I suspect it isn't really holding you back much if at all for 1440P.
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As mentioned I do other thing than just game, from the monitoring I have done with all my usual stuff running while I am in games I’m usually up around 90/95% with spikes to 100%
 
Sequence said:
As mentioned I do other thing than just game, from the monitoring I have done with all my usual stuff running while I am in games I’m usually up around 90/95% with spikes to 100%
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I'd say the 5800X or 5900X could be worth looking at for you as long term solutions, given you've had a 5820K for this long it sort of indicates you like to keep your hardware rather than upgrade every other launch.

On the Intel side I'd consider the 10850K as a more cost effective 10900K which will be just as fast, but I do believe AMD's Zen 3 is your best bet.
 
I've also got a 5820K (at 4.6), 32 gig ram and a 2080 and am always looking at waht is available to move to next.

However, there seems to be no reason to change the 5820K at all at the moment. I play at 3440x1440 on an acer x34 and I am always at the max fps of the monitor with most settings at high.

I will be looking at the next gen Ryzen though if it is not excessively expensive to change to.
 
gailjon said:
I've also got a 5820K (at 4.6), 32 gig ram and a 2080 and am always looking at waht is available to move to next.

However, there seems to be no reason to change the 5820K at all at the moment. I play at 3440x1440 on an acer x34 and I am always at the max fps of the monitor with most settings at high.

I will be looking at the next gen Ryzen though if it is not excessively expensive to change to.
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You have a very nice chip to be at 4.6 :P
 
I'm in exactly the same situation, been sitting with my 5820k for 6 years now. Now running stock at 3.3Ghz with 4 x 4Gb of the most basic 2133Mhz DDR4.

Apart from routine usage (office apps, remote desktop, video calls etc.), my most intensive use of the system is using Adobe Lightroom to process photographs.

Yesterday I downloade and ran the Lightroom bench test to compare my overall performance with more recent builds: https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchm...ation=Lightroom+Classic+&specs=#results-table

My results are near the top of the list sorted by date and although overall I'm about 30% down, a large chunk of the overall score is based on less frequently used functions such as importing images, building previews and exporting which I only use about a dizen times per year. I was most interested in the "Active" score, which represents the user experience when using the application for navigating and editing images, and my results of 73.7 aren't that far behind a much more recent 10900K with 64Gb of faster ram and a faster graphics card with 85.8

Threadripper CPUs score massively on the inactive tasks (importing, exporting etc.) as they can use all the cores in parallel, but are not much faster on the interactive tasks.

Hence I'm waiting to see some benchmarks for the new AMD 5000 series CPUs to see how they compare overall and for interactive experience.
 
Nice one, I was about to ask the same question re my 5820 running on a Sabertooth X99. I'm always wondering if i'm missing out on gaming performance by not upgrading. I was thinking of an i5 105600K.
 
JohnStewart said:
I'm in exactly the same situation, been sitting with my 5820k for 6 years now. Now running stock at 3.3Ghz with 4 x 4Gb of the most basic 2133Mhz DDR4
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For now you could overclock to 4.4 and get 16 GB of 3600mhz ram and down clock it to 3200mhz will be a nice boost for now.

The ram won't be wasted if you do upgrade
 
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