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i7-5960X or i7-6900K

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

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What would you do?

I need an upgrade but not in much of a rush, the next upgrade I will be doing will hopefully last me many years. I will mainly be using the system for video encoding not interested with games.

I can get the 5960X for £600 but do I wait for the 6900k! I have no idea on the price of the 6900k but if it's the same price as the 5960X is it worth waiting for.
 
I did say m8 I would wait there is no rush I don't need it yet just that I'm getting a bit bored with the system I have at the minute. I'm using an old Q9950 at the moment and I find it slow even compared to a Core i5-4460 which I have tried.

I do a lot of encoding with Staxmedia using x264/x265.
 
I did think about going down the Xeon road but I have no idea about price/performance compared to the Extreme series chips.

I won't be overclocking either.

Looking at the Xeon E5-2630 this runs at 600Ghz less but only £48 cheaper than the 5960X I can get.
 
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