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

I'd be very surprised if 5820K wasn't £300 ball park.

I think there are lots of generalizations made when people say that gamers shouldn't consider these over a 4790k for example.

Some games simply love the cores like bf4 multiplayer. I will be all over the 5820k for that game alone!
 
DavieJG said:
I'd be very surprised if 5820K wasn't £300 ball park.

I think there are lots of generalizations made when people say that gamers shouldn't consider these over a 4790k for example.

Some games simply love the cores like bf4 multiplayer. I will be all over the 5820k for that game alone!
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Yes exactly. Those saying that the 4790k is a better gaming CPU - are either misinformed or are jealous that they can't afford one, so they try to defend their Devil's Canyon chip.

The fact is the majority of new games are all well multi-threaded now, not to mention popular applications, whether it be streaming, rendering video, encoding etc etc.

Haswell -E is definitely the better CPU in everyway, if you can afford it.
 
Dave2150 said:
Yes exactly. Those saying that the 4790k is a better gaming CPU - are either misinformed or are jealous that they can't afford one, so they try to defend their Devil's Canyon chip.
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Just because people have different opinions to you doesn't make them misinformed, it makes their opinion different. I have a 4930K with 32GB DDR3 and sadly I know I am probably going to be replacing it with a 5960X and DDR4 set up because I'm a tech addict. But at the same time I also know that a 4790K would be a better option for my needs (gaming, general use, web browsing, occasional messing with VM's), just like a 3770K would have been a better gaming option than my 4930K, or a 860 would have been better than your 920.


Dave2150 said:
The fact is the majority of new games are all well multi-threaded now, not to mention popular applications, whether it be streaming, rendering video, encoding etc etc.
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A hex core i7 has 6 physical cores and HT making 12 logical cores, that's four more than a desktop i7 or an AMD FX-8, considering no games and hardly any mainstream software use all 8 on those CPU's today and very few games in the pipe show signs of doing so soon. It is very very unlikely that the 5820K will offer any advantage in gaming before it is replaced, just like it was for the 4930K, 3930K, i7-970.


Dave2150 said:
Haswell -E is definitely the better CPU in everyway, if you can afford it.
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The same can be said for Titan-Z in the GPU market, however just because you can afford something doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a waste of money for your purposes.


Jokester said:
There's 4GB going to be available, so 16GB as a minimum.
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Just to note, that's a minimum IF you want to run quad channel, it's not actually a requirement as many assume just an option, X58/79/99 are capable of using less channels than they posses, I.E I ran 2x4GB in my X79 board for a year before moving to 4x8GB and although I think I have future proofed (a set up I will prob sell to get X99 lol) I haven't noticed any real world performance benefit because the is none, it was proved a long time ago that tri channel on X58 had zero benefit over dual unless you were doing very heavy synthetic work with a hex core (and 2x4GB was cheaper than 3x2GB too).
 
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Dave2150 said:
Yes exactly. Those saying that the 4790k is a better gaming CPU - are either misinformed or are jealous that they can't afford one, so they try to defend their Devil's Canyon chip.

The fact is the majority of new games are all well multi-threaded now, not to mention popular applications, whether it be streaming, rendering video, encoding etc etc.

Haswell -E is definitely the better CPU in everyway, if you can afford it.
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not true, you will gain no performance increase with these new chips due out soon; over say a 4790..............you wont notice a thing !!!!

the only performance increase you'll ever notice is if you upgrade from something like a 7970 to a R9 295x2.............for example

this CPU makes little difference, you'll only notice this if you upgrade from a CPU from years ago

You will notice no performance increase over a standard i5 2500...........you'll only notice a difference if you're running other programes in the background, but for gaming only nothing..............i read all this yesterday.
 
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There's plenty of games I know I'd tell a difference with standard i5 2500 to an overclocked 4670K.

And then you'd notice a difference across the board if one gamed with Tridef.
 
no idea where it is now, it's the same report that stated you only need 8GB RAM, Crysis 3 only uses 2GB.........but this is for gaming only, nothing else running in the background.........it might be wrong though :cool:
 
im holding out for x99 to see pricing and if the 5820k is close enough on price to a 4820k and the boards arent extortionate ill go that route but atm a maximus vii formula plus 4790k is £40 more expensive than a rampage iv formula and 4820k.
 
keep your 3770k;)

no idea if a grand will be enough,all depends on cpu and board prices

ddr4 is expensive only cos its new
 
A little bit of googlefu has dug up some US pre-order prices with the 5820k coming in at $425 (~£250), 5930k at $630 (~£375) and the 5960X at $1100 (~£650).

Obviously this is just a direct conversion and doesn't take into account taxes etc so I would expect at least another 20-30% on top of those prices.
 
Martini1991 said:
There's plenty of games I know I'd tell a difference with standard i5 2500 to an overclocked 4670K.

And then you'd notice a difference across the board if one gamed with Tridef.
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I5 2500 non K is clocked far too low to be of any use. I used to run a Xeon E3 1220 and it was locked to 3.2ghz and it got slaughtered by an overclocked 2500k.

I used to run 670 SLI off of it too, and replaced it with an 8320 which absolutely slaughtered it.
 
I am expecting the prices on the 5930K and 5960X to be the same as sandy-e and ivy-e. I wouldn't be surprised to see the 5820K being a few quid (£20-40) more than the 4820K.
 
Exactly that, I can see the 5820 being very popular 6 cores at 4790 money give or take £10. it is all down to the boards and just how expensive the cheaper end ones are.
 
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