How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

sam77 · 6 May 2016 at 11:48

smsmasters said:
I'l probably get the one with the most cores.

an educated decision I see... :rolleyes:

h4rm0ny · 6 May 2016 at 12:34

Ayahuasca said:
Plenty of brand supporters here, it's not even the worst forum for it either.

I have a bias towards buying AMD but I freely acknowledge it and it's because I want to prevent an Intelopoly. I've never argued someone should get a particular chip except on technical grounds - and so my recommendations have come from both company's at different points.

BluesFanUK · 8 May 2016 at 15:07

Bit annoyed how far AMD have fallen behind Intel. Right now Intel are just money grabbing *****. I bought an i5-2400 back in 2011, upgraded to an i7-5820K in 2015.

Monumental upgrade right? It should be, but I noticed a bigger difference going from an HDD to an SSD than I have between these two CPU's.

I think i'm set for the next 15 years at the rate Intel keep going at.

Legend · 8 May 2016 at 16:05

So bottom line, 5820K upgrade to Broadwell-E = pointless waste of money for the most part?

Ayahuasca · 8 May 2016 at 16:47

Unless you can make good use of the 8/10 core chips then yes it's a waste.

enapace · 8 May 2016 at 16:52

I'm debating if should just pick up a 5930K at moment instead of waiting for Broadwell sounds like it might be cheaper and quicker. Unlike the 980Ti Versus 1080 I don't think there is going be much between Haswell-E and Broadwell-e from everything I've read.

eazyrider · 8 May 2016 at 17:13

enapace said:
I'm debating if should just pick up a 5930K at moment instead of waiting for Broadwell sounds like it might be cheaper and quicker. Unlike the 980Ti Versus 1080 I don't think there is going be much between Haswell-E and Broadwell-e from everything I've read.

buy the 5930k now, then drop in the Broadwell-E processor when its released?

enapace · 8 May 2016 at 17:17

eazyrider said:
buy the 5930k now, then drop in the Broadwell-E processor when its released?

I meant just buying a 5930K instead of waiting and getting a broadwell-e and just keeping 5930K for a while.

Caracus2k · 8 May 2016 at 17:21

BluesFanUK said:
Bit annoyed how far AMD have fallen behind Intel. Right now Intel are just money grabbing *****. I bought an i5-2400 back in 2011, upgraded to an i7-5820K in 2015.

Monumental upgrade right? It should be, but I noticed a bigger difference going from an HDD to an SSD than I have between these two CPU's.

I think i'm set for the next 15 years at the rate Intel keep going at.

To be fair its not the cpu's fault... Its the software your running
the 5820k would run rings around your old i5 given the right software! Unlike years gone by we haven't in the most be CPU limited for quite some time now in gaming.. If you only game you can buy a £200 6600k a sub £100 z170 board and put as much money as you can into a good gpu and your set. Having said that some games are now stating to show big gains from hyper threaded quad core cpu's vs non hyper threaded ones but even then you could drop in an i7 kabylake down the road and be fine. 5820k and 5930k's I think will show there worth when cannonlake makes high end mainstream 6+ cores and games more games will be coded to utilise more cores/ threads

Daza23 · 9 May 2016 at 07:50

I still got the 3930k, its done me well. do you think its worth the upgrade to the 6900k for me?

discoally · 9 May 2016 at 09:52

Won't make much difference to me in gaming, going to stick with a skylake!

Drollic · 9 May 2016 at 15:14

Am I right in thinking the biggest difference between six core broadwell e and the 5820k will be power consumption and heat, with only a very small gain in performance the way things are looking?

joeyjojo · 9 May 2016 at 15:50

Drollic said:
Am I right in thinking the biggest difference between six core broadwell e and the 5820k will be power consumption and heat, with only a very small gain in performance the way things are looking?

Get an idea about performance difference by comparing Haswell/DC to Broadwell. For example, i7-4790K to i7-5775C, bearing in mind the DC is 700 MHz faster, the Broadwell comes out about 10% faster clock for clock in Cinebench and 8% in x264. Not a bad improvement.

http://www.pcgamer.com/intel-broadwell-dt-core-i7-5775c-review/

Or did you mean gaming? (No difference.)

eddyr · 9 May 2016 at 16:40

Broadwell E wont feature the iris/L4 cache, as with desktop 1150 broadwell, to which a large part of that performance improvement is attributed.

joeyjojo · 9 May 2016 at 18:27

eddyr said:
Broadwell E wont feature the iris/L4 cache, as with desktop 1150 broadwell, to which a large part of that performance improvement is attributed.

I'd be surprised if Cinebench or x264 were that sensitive to L4 cache.

Looking at it again (tweaktown) the difference is roughly nil in x264, so pfft.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7...lga-1150-cpu-performance-overview/index9.html

beany_bot · 11 May 2016 at 14:17

I think I will get a new GPU this xmas. (maybe). As that GPU won't be bottle necked by my 4690k. So no need to go to skylake yet. Maybe 2017/2018 I will want a better CPU. by then the mobos and DDR4 will be much cheaper too.

beany_bot · 11 May 2016 at 14:50

Disco_P said:
Still waiting on something that is so objectively better than my 2550K for gaming that I can subjectively get past the attachment I have to my first ever CPU.

I respect a man who can resist buying shiny just because its shiny. lol

I'm not too bad. but after 2/3 years I get the bug to upgrade. Glad I'm not a must have latest for latest sake person. That would be expensive.

JABenedicic · 13 May 2016 at 15:37

I'm building a new machine over the next couple of months, will time it out with the 1080's being released.

Was going to go X99A, with the current gen 5690X, but this seems like its worth waiting for 6950X if I'm going to be jumping to that level anyway.

Any news on if it supports anything more than the 64GB RAM than the current gen?

I know that sounds odd, but when I'm not using my rig for gaming and other non-work crap I use the extra memory/CPU against my home lab for study/exams etc.

FredFlint · 13 May 2016 at 18:45

JABenedicic said:
I'm building a new machine over the next couple of months, will time it out with the 1080's being released.

Was going to go X99A, with the current gen 5690X, but this seems like its worth waiting for 6950X if I'm going to be jumping to that level anyway.

Any news on if it supports anything more than the 64GB RAM than the current gen?

I know that sounds odd, but when I'm not using my rig for gaming and other non-work crap I use the extra memory/CPU against my home lab for study/exams etc.

X99 can take 128GB Ram, would not be surprised if that increases to 256GB with a BIOS update when 32GB Dimms become available.

JABenedicic · 13 May 2016 at 20:02

FredFlint said:
X99 can take 128GB Ram, would not be surprised if that increases to 256GB with a BIOS update when 32GB Dimms become available.

I believe you can (happy to be corrected) only do this with the Xeon CPU's not the HEDT ones in the current generation. That's why I was curious if anything in Broadwell-E was going to change that.