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Haswell -E Core i7-5960X, 5930K, 5820K specifications

This worth a punt instead of waiting for Skylake?

My 2600K could do with upgrading, always wanted a X*9 setup too. Should we expect to pay ~£500 on launch? IIRC that's what 4930K was.
 
Keeping an eye on this.

My X79 rig (RIVE, 3930@5GHz) has been great and I've kept it longer than my other rigs so need to look at the benefits of the upgrade. Would like to see if any bandwidth improvements would be of benefit as I run three screen surround (7960x1440) with triSli and am looking for graphics/screen upgrades soon.
 
Intel HEDT Haswell-E ‘Core i7-5820K’ to be 20% More Expensive, Core i7-5930K and Core i7-5960X Will Remain the Same

So we just got word from the Chinese VR-Zone.com about Intel’s HEDT Haswell-E Platform and the supporting X99 Chipset. Basically the Haswell-E based Core i7-5820K will be around 20% more expensive than its predecessor (as the heading would have told you no doubt).
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http://wccftech.com/intel-hedt-haswelle-core-i7-5820k20-expensive-ivy-bridgee-counterpart/
 
This makes the 5960x better "value" than the previous top end x79 CPUs in that those were hex-cores the same as their 3930k/4930k variants but just had a slightly lower base/boost clock and less cache.

At least the 5960x gets 2 extra cores for the money. Whether that will actually prove to be of any usefulness to gamers/benchers is a totally different story as the base and boost clocks of the top chip seem fairly rubbish.
 
Does this mean the 5820k will be 20% up on the 4820k bringing it into the £290-£300 range? If it's £300 or under I'll probably bite and upgrade to a hex core, otherwise I'm not sure I'll bother.
 
DazQ87 said:
Does this mean the 5820k will be 20% up on the 4820k bringing it into the £290-£300 range? If it's £300 or under I'll probably bite and upgrade to a hex core, otherwise I'm not sure I'll bother.
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Yeah prob a lil over 300 in the UK.

My guess is,

4770K £225
4790K £260
5820K £320
5930K £470
5960X £800
 
DavidS14 said:
Keeping an eye on this.

My X79 rig (RIVE, 3930@5GHz) has been great and I've kept it longer than my other rigs so need to look at the benefits of the upgrade. Would like to see if any bandwidth improvements would be of benefit as I run three screen surround (7960x1440) with triSli and am looking for graphics/screen upgrades soon.
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For gaming you will see zero improvements - if anything there will be a loss of performance due to a guaranteed fact that the newer generation won't clock anywhere near the 5Ghz your getting now, and memory speeds vouch for very little these days unless benching.

So glad now that I didn't wait and got my 4960x (cost me the less than the estimated 5930K price here yet will prob be better performance as it can do 4.7Ghz and 2133mhz memory no probs) - not losing out on anything at all here.

That 8 core is gunna be well overpriced for what it is - expect near £1k mark prices to begin with.
 
faceman123 said:
is quad channel memory beneficial for gaming ?
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No, the only real benefit you could try and justify to yourself is that with four channels you could run low MHz in order to run lower CAS and try to nail great response times (as you have twice the channels 1600MHz is already higher bandwidth than 2400MHz is on dual channel).

The drawback being that tri/quad memory controllers usually have worse response than dual so you would be trying to cancel out the disadvantage as opposed to trying to pull ahead.

On the plus side though four channels of DDR4 won't bottleneck anything for a very long time, DDR6 will be out by then and the CPU's for HW-E long obsolete.
 
TDP on the 6 core models seems excessive... shouldn't it be less than a 6 core Ivybridge? O_o

(Unless Intel are just being conservative.)
 
eddiew said:
TDP on the 6 core models seems excessive... shouldn't it be less than a 6 core Ivybridge? O_o

(Unless Intel are just being conservative.)
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DazQ87 said:
I did wonder this, unless the DDR4/PCI-e interface are quite power hungry?
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The mainstream Haswell parts did use a bit more power over the Ivybridge ones, although TDP was higher Haswell gave more performance per watt overall, so the extra bit of juice was welcome. Imagine the same is true of Haswell -E. These are going to have awesome performance.

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Boomstick777 said:
The mainstream Haswell parts did use a bit more power over the Ivybridge ones, although TDP was higher Haswell gave more performance per watt overall, so the extra bit of juice was welcome. Imagine the same is true of Haswell -E. These are going to have awesome performance.

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Ivy-E uses less than Sandy-E as far as I know though. So hopefully that trend will continue with Haswell-E.
 
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