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

@ bru,

That 16GB DDR4 price is actually very decent. As long as the motherboards aren't extortionate, so far it potentially looks like X99 as a whole platform isn't going to be that badly priced. Although we haven't seen 5820K price yet :P Hopefully it's around £300.
 
MrMarvelous said:
The 5820K will do me nicley. Would rather have 1 GPU and upgrade than have 2 GPU's and possibly have issues.
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Lord_ZED said:
MrMarvelous same here. Enough problems with TriDef as it is no point of adding crapfire with even more problems.
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+1

Gave crossfire another go this week, was awful. Even when fps were high enough there was still really bad stutter. Unparking cores, overclocking, underclocking. Nothing helps. Back to single GPU again now. At least I know for certain dual GPU's aren't for me :p

X99 + 5820K + single 20nm GPU is the way forward imho.
 
ALXAndy said:
Or you could try spending the afternoon doing some reading. Here's an example of my 'crystal ball'.



See that? that's a 5960x. It's also a 5960x with the lid removed, and one can clearly see that it has 12 cores, 4 of which have been disabled.

So basically, mate, it's a rebadged Xeon. One doesn't need a degree in common sense to realise that.
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One also doesn't need to keep being so rude to other forum posters. Can't you just tone it down a bit Andy?
 
ALXAndy said:
No, not really. Takes about an hour to go to Intel's site and look at all the Xeons before realising what's going on.

Enjoy your 12 core derped server CPU though dude. Maybe Intel will let you have all twelve for another bag of sand in about three years time.
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Huh what? Your original hostile comment wasn't even directed at me. I'm just saying you come across rude to a lot of people on here. There's no need mate. Just tone it down.

Oh and I will enjoy my Haswell -E chip when I get it. Thanks for your concern mate.

You did enable Frame Pacing yes?

TBH it's only been about a month that I've been somewhat happy with Crossfire.
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Yeah I tried everything, the solution in the end was to remove the second card (: Works great now. I'm really sensitive to micro stutter I think, not just crossfire but SLI as well. I won't mess with dual cards again.
 
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Everybody knows the high end is expensive Andy, it's not as if you're revealing some amazing fact. Shockingly we are already aware that high end = expensive. Thankfully Intel have the gaming market sown up with i5's and i7's CPU's and they are competitively priced even without a direct competitor.

If people want to buy and enjoy Haswell -E, why not just let them do that without spouting doom and gloom with every post you make in this thread.

In fact if you don't care about Intel's expensive high end, why are you even in here posting this stuff?

We get it, you think it's overpriced. That's great now move on, let everyone else get on with what they want.
 
The AMD event was as usual a bit of a letdown, same CPU's re-branded once more, amazing that they can keep selling the same CPU's in different boxes every year.

Anyway this has got me thinking X99 will probably last for years, AMD will probably still be selling re packaged FX chips when Intel has 14nm 8 core Broadwell -E.

Obviously AMD are years away from anything even near worthwhile in terms of CPU's so with that in mind X99 is the way forward, hopefully I have enough funds to move onto X99 in Sept. Guess my Z97 + 4790K will be on MM very soon :D
 
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Potential Pricing,

Intel i7 / X99 Haswell-E pricing:

Intel Core i7 5960X 8C/16HT – 40-lane PCI-Express support (x16 + x16 + x8) — $999 =£602 + VAT '20%' =£722
Intel Core i7 5930K 6C/12HT – 40-lane PCI-Express support (x16 + x16 + x8) — $583 =£351 + VAT '20%' =£421
Intel Core i7 5820K 6C/12HT — 28-lane PCI-Express support (x16 + x8 + x4) —– $389 =£234 + VAT '20%' =£280


http://videocardz.com/51380/intel-haswell-e-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-pricing-revealed

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Tonester0011 said:
Be nice if that's right Boom.

My guess:

60X - £849
30K - £499
20K - £349

^ good price for the 20k, the gimped lanes wouldn't effect many people only those looking for tri+
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+1 Yeah there will be initial price hike in some places but imagine after a couple of months will hit closer to the RRP.

For those running single or dual GPU's 5820K won't hold them back at all. To compare 4790K has 16 PCI-E lanes VS 28 lanes on 5820K.

3 or more GPU's and 5930K / 5960X.

From the die map the 5960X looks to be a native 8 core, no disabled cores?

I'm planning on waiting till I have enough coin for 5960X before making the jump. I want the 8 core ! If I get to impatient will settle for the 5820K lol.
 
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Only 1 day to go, looking forward to the reviews. Can't afford to actually move to X99 yet so will have to enjoy this vicariously through the rest of you for a while :P
 
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