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

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Surely a 4970k @ 4.8 will be a better gaming CPU than a 5930 @ lets say 4Ghz, I really fancy some DDR4 though...
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yes, plus you might not need either of these for 1080p tv.

mine is too much for me, as is the mobo, but at least it'll last some time

these new CPUs wont be much faster... if at all, the Card is the most important thing but that's not till late next year.
 
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Would LOVE a 5960X but it's too rich for me. Think I'll spend a year saving while it matures and prices to stabilise. Then go all out with a new case and custom loop and OC the nads off it.. monster encoding machine.
 
Jokester said:
I would imagine that's just to meet the TDP, would presumably overclock like a beast if you have the cooling.
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Presumably + Haswell = lol.

I wouldn't presume anything, not after the desktop Haswells we have now. That was why I went Sandy !

If the laws of physics are true then Haswell E = Haswell with more cores. They'll no doubt put in a nice big lump of cache to sweeten the deal, but the underlying cores should pretty much be what we have now.

I mean seriously, can you see people paying £800 for an 8 core one and it have the same overclocking potential of the ones we have now? LOL ! there will be lynch mobs.
 
mothermachine said:
4ghz is going to be the holy grail for this one, isn't it... i can see it. well, if OCUK can ship them overclocked to say 3.8ghz that will be great.
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If 4ghz is the limit then it'll go down like the Titanic. 4+ core support in desktops is still extremely rare, with only a small handful of recent games taking advantage of it.

At user level a 4ghz 8 core Haswell will be slower than a 4.4ghz I5. That's certainly not going to be something to celebrate :D
 
You don't need a Ferrari either but that doesn't stop people buying them or wanting them. To be fair you don't need half the kit us enthusiasts use in our PC's but need and want are two totally different things. :)
 
So apart from benching and rendering/heavily multithreaded applications, the low max frequency 8-cores will be, at best, slower than decently clocking Devil's Canyon CPUs in gaming. At worst, the haswell-Es will be much slower if terrible overclockers.
 
Lol at the negative posts, people trying to convince themselves they don't want a nice Intel 8 core :P

If it makes them feel better it's all good I guess.

I would love one of those 5960X's, absolute monster !
 
ALXAndy i was thinking of buying cheapest 6 core one and disabling HT hoping that can give me few 100-200mhz oc That would give me 2 extra cores over I5 with hopefully descent clock on my watercooling setup.
 
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