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i7 5820k, upgrade or hold off?

Hold onto the 5820K, it's an excellent CPU and still fares well in gaming and other professional workloads. Plus it's soldered too. They tend to overclock rather nicely. The only issue is finding X99 motherboards at a decent price.
 
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?
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Most 5820k can hit 4.5GHz try and push it, if you can not get much higher just keep it going for a few more years no need to upgrade yet.
 
i have a ryzen system at side of the i9 7900x and the 5820 rig.the 5820k is quicker in literally every game over the ryzen system same card. good for a few years yet.especially if overclocked.nothing worth swapping to unless you going to put a lot of money out for high end i9 stuff.
 
Still got my 5820K myself. I think it’s best to hold off until 2019 at least to see what the new CPUs archs bring.

I’ve the upgrade itch myself; but I think waiting should be worth it.

You could try over clocking yours a tad more if possible.
 
Just had a look at S/H prices for 5820k was surprised they are selling for around 150.00 very good cpu for that price and quad channel memory and the extra pcie lanes a winner at that price point and will last a good five years or more.
 
Just bought another i7 5820K off Ebay for £150.00 as I have parts lying around including a GTX 980 Ti and it was too tempting to build a 2nd system. Main main is still 5820K + 1080 Ti and I built another 2 systems based on it plus RX480s in the last 6 months and sold them on.

I guess I'm used to it's requirements and it does everything I need still. I use Team group 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM and set the FSB to 125MHz and the RAM runs fine at 3000MHz with the CPU at 4.125 MHz. CPU voltage is set to 1.2 so temps are easy to control.

If you didn't have the 5820K already then the i5 8600K is a good CPU to build a gaming system round but the difference probably isn't worth the hassle of swapping out.
 
bimbleuk said:
Just bought another i7 5820K off Ebay for £150.00 as I have parts lying around including a GTX 980 Ti and it was too tempting to build a 2nd system. Main main is still 5820K + 1080 Ti and I built another 2 systems based on it plus RX480s in the last 6 months and sold them on.

I guess I'm used to it's requirements and it does everything I need still. I use Team group 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM and set the FSB to 125MHz and the RAM runs fine at 3000MHz with the CPU at 4.125 MHz. CPU voltage is set to 1.2 so temps are easy to control.

If you didn't have the 5820K already then the i5 8600K is a good CPU to build a gaming system round but the difference probably isn't worth the hassle of swapping out.
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Already have one bimbleuk running a 4.6 @ 1.275v great Cpu. A lot of 2.400Mhz 16Gig kits will do 3000 easy just have to tweak the timings a little no need to spend more on 3000 + kits.
 
This thread is pretty cool. I think the i7-5820K will serve as long as the i7-920s and i7-930s did back in the day - excellent value for money at the time (was cheaper than the i7-6700K for a good while) and it'll be a while before there's a big leap rendering it obsolete (even current Intel IPC is barely an improvement).
 
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