i7 5820k, upgrade or hold off?

Footyslayer · 1 Mar 2018 at 15:06

Hey all,

currently rocking an i7 5820k which is overclocked to 4.0ghz. I have had it about 2 years or so. Been thinking about an upgrade but was holding off for the new series of intel chips, the lake series is coming to an end and then there will be a new range or did I read wrong?

What are thoughts on upgrading?

AiiR · 1 Mar 2018 at 15:30

Wait for the next round of Ryzen.

NinjaCool · 1 Mar 2018 at 15:42

The i7 5820k is still a powerful CPU so I think you should at least wait for the next round of CPUs coming out in around early 2019, such as Intel's Ice Lake (10nm), Ryzen's 7nm and see what they have to offer.

bakes0310 · 1 Mar 2018 at 15:49

Keep what you got, you have an amazing system that will bring you a tiny upgrade that you will only see a boost in benchmark score. Wait a couple years it might be a bit slow by then haha, people are still using 2500k no problems.

lurkio · 1 Mar 2018 at 16:35

hold on to it for now, wait until CPU's are released that dont have the vulns the current ones have

C-Roy · 1 Mar 2018 at 21:33

As others have said, hold. Only a few weeks to wait to see what AMD has in store.

Chugz · 1 Mar 2018 at 21:36

The 5820K is still a great CPU to use, you won't be gaining a lot by swapping to the new CPUs, unless you go for some of the more insane Intel X CPUs or Threadripper.

Hedge · 1 Mar 2018 at 23:14

My 5820k sits at 4.5ghz. You should increase your overclock.

To answer your question I doubt you would see much improvement outside of benchmarks unless you wait for future gen cpus.

P0tenc · 3 Mar 2018 at 06:31

It completely depends on your use case. If you are chasing the highest frame rates for a high refresh rate monitor then I would get a i7 8700k and clock it to 5Ghz. If you are gaming at 60Hz high resolution then the CPU is less important. Your signature lists 2400MHz ram, this is a bit slow, try get 3200Mhz CAS14 (Samsung B-Die) if you can.
The cheapest solution is to overclock what you have a bit higher, including trying to OC the ram.

4K8KW10 · 3 Mar 2018 at 10:06

Footyslayer said:
Hey all,

currently rocking an i7 5820k which is overclocked to 4.0ghz. I have had it about 2 years or so. Been thinking about an upgrade but was holding off for the new series of intel chips, the lake series is coming to an end and then there will be a new range or did I read wrong?

What are thoughts on upgrading?

Hey,

I would wait till Ryzen 3000 series arrives late this year or early next year.

Geck0 · 3 Mar 2018 at 10:07

I'd absolutely love to kick mine to the curb and buy AMD but I don't know if what I would get for the CPU, Asrock mobo and 2100 DDR4 would compensate me enough to justify it.

bimbleuk · 3 Mar 2018 at 10:14

Doesn't seem to be holding my system back and I game up to 100Hz on an UW monitor with a 1080 Ti. OC to 4.125 with RAM XMP profile set to 3000MHz. GPU is still the limit with the games i'm playing. Mostly open world RPG.

darket · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:41

5960x @ 4.6 here , smashing through games on a 100hz UW as well

DragonQ · 3 Mar 2018 at 14:49

Just overclock it higher.

Footyslayer · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:09

Thanks everyone, great advice.

I am only on air at the minute, on air I got it to 4.2ghz overclock bit higher than that wasn't happening. To be fair though I used the Asus ai suite and its program "5-way optimization". I know my doing it manually I can get more but I have never manually overclocked a CPU and am a bit daunted by it to be fair. Having a PC not boot or have issues getting back into the system scares the hell out of me

With the 5-way optimization it got to 4.2ghz, I set it to never go above 1.300v and 85c. I have no plans to benchmark, just game.

I game at 2560x1440 at 144hz and have no issues at all. Was just feeling a bit of an upgrade itch in the near future!

So what is the future for intel chips? I thought the "lake" series was coming to an end this year, or will their chips always be a form of "lake", I thought there would be a new name so to speak?

willhub · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:12

Is CPU a limiting factor for games at the moment? I've got the 4820K not sure how it compares to yours?

Perfect_Chaos · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:39

Ice Lake 6/8 core or Zen 3 would be the only worthwhile upgrades i think.

Drollic · 3 Mar 2018 at 16:21

With that cpu, I'd buy a better cooler, learn how to oc manually and run it at 4.2-4.3 which it should easily do.

Footyslayer · 3 Mar 2018 at 18:35

@willhub To be fair no gaming hasn't been an issue, it's just an upgrade itch and future proofing I am thinking of.

@Perfect_Chaos Cheers, I guess I may as well hold off another year at least?

@Drollic That is a good idea, easy to change the current air cooler to a water cooler just for the CPU.

I guess having this CPU for 3 years now made me wonder as I usually look to upgrade every 3 years but if it is still regarded as up there with high end CPU's there is no point. I don't know much about CPU's to be fair. Well I know nothing since I researched 3 years ago before settling on the 5820k. What is the current plan for intel chips over the next 2 years with releases and new models, does anybody know?

Perfect_Chaos · 3 Mar 2018 at 19:49

I'm not sure what AMD are doing in regards to names of the processors, bit confusing with Zen+, but Zen 2 (or 3) is due next year. Supposedly with a decent speed improvement.

Ice Lake will probably be out next year too, and it's likely Intel will not want to be late releasing new chips without vulnerabilities i guess.