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

Boomstick777 said:
Probably looking at 3-5 years before a single GPU can offer anywhere near decent fps at 4K.

Until then 2 or 3 GPU's is the way forward for 4K..

5960X + 2 x 290X 2 x 780 Ti or 295X2 would be a decent 4K setup, ridiculously expensive though :p

I'm waiting until Korea start making cheap 4K monitors :D by then hopefully GPU's will have caught up.
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This. My 780 GTX SLI struggles in some games to keep the framerate high for 2560x1440. Although I suppose all 4k monitors so far are only 60hz so you might be okay with a titan black or something.
 
Hmm one would have imagined ocuk forums to be down come friday or struggling with haswell e discussion and 20 reviews and can't wait or intel owns threads.

Quick look at anandtech review and tells me why !

For the extra 200-300 quid a 5820k/msi x99/16gig DDR4 kit its still perhaps worth it over an 4790k/z97 setup but is it me or are hardly any games or software not making any use of those extra 2-4 cores?

Not complaining but you would imagine BF4 or modern titles to see 2 extra cores and just give at least extra 20-30fps more or is this gpu limited benchies am seeing?
 
R3X said:
Hmm one would have imagined ocuk forums to be down come friday or struggling with haswell e discussion and 20 reviews and can't wait or intel owns threads.

Quick look at anandtech review and tells me why !

For the extra 200-300 quid a 5820k/msi x99/16gig DDR4 kit its still perhaps worth it over an 4790k/z97 setup but is it me or are hardly any games or software not making any use of those extra 2-4 cores?

Not complaining but you would imagine BF4 or modern titles to see 2 extra cores and just give at least extra 20-30fps more or is this gpu limited benchies am seeing?
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Games, not yet. Applications, yes.
 
R3X said:
Hmm one would have imagined ocuk forums to be down come friday or struggling with haswell e discussion and 20 reviews and can't wait or intel owns threads.

Quick look at anandtech review and tells me why !

For the extra 200-300 quid a 5820k/msi x99/16gig DDR4 kit its still perhaps worth it over an 4790k/z97 setup but is it me or are hardly any games or software not making any use of those extra 2-4 cores?

Not complaining but you would imagine BF4 or modern titles to see 2 extra cores and just give at least extra 20-30fps more or is this gpu limited benchies am seeing?
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The newer games that want cores don't care for clock speed. Metro LL loves cores.. I cut the clock speed of a 8320 that outperformed my 8 core 2ghz Ivy in everything else and the Ivy beat it in Metro. My 8320 was running 4.9ghz.

This all totes up perfectly with what we were told ages ago. New console ports were originally designed to be ran on an 8 core AMD Jaguar with a pants clock speed.

For games to make full use of everything a modern PC CPU offers they would need to be coded as such. Don't hold your breath. Last time I did that I turned blue....

Edit. I rest my cases...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-intel-core-i7-5960x-review

 
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Thanks for the info interesting indeed. A 5820k set up is still perhaps worth it over an 4790k especially for 200ish bob more.
 
If your a gamer £600 is probably the max you would want to pay for a x99 haswell E setup . 5820K 16GB DDR4 and MB. Otherwise you would be better off with a good quality 4790K set up for around £450. so you could say the two extra cores and more memory BW are costing £150.00 which is not bad if looking to future proof your new build.
 
I was reading from this post here which sounds important to any haswell e owners:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26843094#post26843094

The Asus X99 manual suggest if you use a 5820k CPU to NOT use an M2 X4 device since it would effect performance.

With Samsungs latest M2x4 SSD hitting 1000+meg reads it would be nice to have those full speeds.

Am a bit baffled by this surely even with a 5820K there should be tons of bandwidth to run one GPU @ X16 bus speeds and also an M2 SSD at x4 speeds or perhaps Asus are thinking everyone will be running 2 or 3 GPUs !
 
It depends how that motherboard manufacturer chooses to distribute the lanes. Read the manual, vote with your wallets as to what suits you best.
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