Intel 5960X. Best CPU ever made.

Jacky60 · 6 Jul 2023 at 16:21

I'm the proud owner of the Intel 5960X and while I keep contemplating upgrading, I still cannot find a reason at 4K other than MSFS 2020.
This CPU was from 2015 yet it still holds it's own (sort of) in 2023, Beat that!

The FIRST DDR4 8 Core (i7-5960x) Vs. The Last (Ryzen 7 5800X3D)

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jigger · 6 Jul 2023 at 16:48

£1100 for 8 cores seems like madness today. So glad those days are long gone.

The only thing I miss from this era was socketed BIOS chips and Intel NIC’s.

Rroff · 6 Jul 2023 at 16:53

Although not able to compete with the 5960X or the latest CPUs I think the 1650 V2 and 1680 V2 Xeons would have to be my vote for best CPUs ever made - albeit the 1680 V2 was a near 2 grand CPU on release. 6/12 and 8/16 configuration, massive amounts of memory bandwidth and huge potential for memory and CPU overclocks, tons of forward thinking features - about the only thing missing really was bootable NVME support.

Sadly Intel doesn't really make anything which is truly comparable to the X79 and X99 platforms but for this generation today.

jigger · 6 Jul 2023 at 17:11

Intel will still happily relive people of £1500~ for 12 cores.

The W-3000 series chips, for those that are that way inclined. Far and away Intel’s best architecture.

Jacky60 · 6 Jul 2023 at 18:03

jigger said:
£1100 for 8 cores seems like madness today. So glad those days are long gone.

The only thing I miss from this era was socketed BIOS chips and Intel NIC’s.

It was £799 and those cores are still decent if a little long in the tooth.

jigger · 6 Jul 2023 at 18:19

Jacky60 said:
It was £799 and those cores are still decent if a little long in the tooth.

I’ve got an X99 WS system with a Broadwell Xeon in bits sat as a back up.

I can’t bring myself to sell it as it was eye watering expensive.

gjbf1 · 6 Jul 2023 at 22:32

Q6600 and i7 920 both might have a shout?

humbug · 6 Jul 2023 at 23:06

Jacky60 said:
I'm the proud owner of the Intel 5960X and while I keep contemplating upgrading, I still cannot find a reason at 4K other than MSFS 2020.
This CPU was from 2015 yet it still holds it's own (sort of) in 2023, Beat that!

The FIRST DDR4 8 Core (i7-5960x) Vs. The Last (Ryzen 7 5800X3D)

in 2014, Intel launched the First DDR4 Desktop Consumer CPU, and they definitely charged for it, at a whopping $1000 US, this CPU featured also 8 Cores 16 Th...

www.youtube.com

The 5800X3D is knocking on for twice as fast and he overclocked the proverbials off the 5960X. its a blood bath.
The 5800X3D is not even the fastest chip you can get today, that honour goes the its replacement, the 7800X3D.

None of this should be a surprise, its an old CPU, i don't get these videos where people pull up some old CPU from when what was in their mind the glory days? and comment on bar charts that clearly shows it up for how bad it is and try to make it not at all completely ####!

I had an i7 930, i loved that CPU, would i spend any kind of money to own one now? £30 for the board, CPU and RAM, sure to get my nostalgia kicks and then stick it in a draw never to see the light of day ever again.

Get over it, we have never had it as good as we do today.

jigger · 7 Jul 2023 at 00:01

humbug said:
The 5800X3D is knocking on for twice as fast and he overclocked the proverbials off the 5960X. its a blood bath.
The 5800X3D is not even the fastest chip you can get today, that honour goes the its replacement, the 7800X3D.

None of this should be a surprise, its an old CPU, i don't get these videos where people pull up some old CPU from when what was in their mind the glory days? and comment on bar charts that clearly shows it up for how bad it is and try to make it not at all completely ####!

I had an i7 930, i loved that CPU, would i spend any kind of money to own one now? £30 for the board, CPU and RAM, sure to get my nostalgia kicks and then stick it in a draw never to see the light of day ever again.

Get over it, we have never had it as good as we do today.

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Ain't that for dang sure.

rare · 7 Jul 2023 at 00:09

Heck, my QX9550 still feels OK for general web browsing etc, paired with an SSD. A couple years ago I had a 2700k and paired with a 980ti it was still a decent budget option for playing games like BF1. The 4790k was doing pretty well for a long time, certainly being competitive with the first and second generation ryzens of a certain core count. CPU’s from that’s era are still more than usable. But the reality is the performance has jumped massively from 2015 when you start looking at the numbers.

stooeh · 7 Jul 2023 at 00:38

Jacky60 said:
It was £799 and those cores are still decent if a little long in the tooth.

40 quid from CEX now

Still have my X99 system working, doesn't get much use now ofc. Still okay for many games but IPC struggles heavily in others. I think the 5820K was a better chip given its much cheaper price but not sure what I would consider best ever. Maybe the 2500K or something current will have a lasting impression...

jigger · 7 Jul 2023 at 00:51

gjbf1 said:
Q6600 and i7 920 both might have a shout?

Decent, but I’d rank these and few more ahead of them.

Socket 370 celeron's in SMP at 2-3x clocks.

Duron Spitfire

Athlon XP 2500+

Pentium M

Opteron 146 CABNE

Opteron 165

Week 27 4770K

ChocAndGray · 7 Jul 2023 at 01:11

2500k and 2700k are up there along with the 1080ti as legends of PC hardware!

mid_gen · 7 Jul 2023 at 10:42

Was just posting on another thread about finally upgrading my 5820k. It's not really letting me down, but after 7-8 years we finally have some decent value upgrades around (I went for a 7900). Pretty much twice the cores, twice the performance per core, and half the power consumption, for about the same money.

BUDFORCE · 7 Jul 2023 at 10:46

Sandybridge i7-2600k.

Best CPU ever made imo.

Cyber-Mav · 7 Jul 2023 at 11:25

gjbf1 said:
Q6600 and i7 920 both might have a shout?

Dont think either has avx instructions or AES which is a killer in this day and age

gjbf1 · 7 Jul 2023 at 11:29

Cyber-Mav said:
Dont think either has avx instructions or AES which is a killer in this day and age

Oh yeah they're well out of date for use now. But both overclocked like mad and held their own for years.

OliverQueen · 7 Jul 2023 at 15:32

For me it would have to be;

Celeron 300A (on Abit BP6 board after replacing the capacitors!)
i7 4770K (seriously underrated CPU that still can hold its own today in all but the most CPU intensive games if don't mind a bit of GPU bottlenecking with more recent GPU's)
i9 9900K (99.9% of them could do a stable 5GHz all core/5.1Ghz 1-3 cores straight out the box on a semi-decent air cooler with no voltage tweaks required, although undervolting a little would help keep temps down)

Special mentions also go to the AMD Athlon 1GHz (Palomino core from memory) & the Pentium 3 1.4GHz 'Tualatin' (a seriously under-rated CPU that a lot of people ignored due to being launched around same time as the original Pentium 4 processors, costing more yet outperformed the P4 CPU's for quite a while afterwards & what the Core2 CPU's (with some enhancements & architecture tweaks) were based around if my failing memory serves me correct)

subbytna · 7 Jul 2023 at 16:25

Jacky60 said:
I'm the proud owner of the Intel 5960X and while I keep contemplating upgrading, I still cannot find a reason at 4K other than MSFS 2020.
This CPU was from 2015 yet it still holds it's own (sort of) in 2023, Beat that!

The FIRST DDR4 8 Core (i7-5960x) Vs. The Last (Ryzen 7 5800X3D)

in 2014, Intel launched the First DDR4 Desktop Consumer CPU, and they definitely charged for it, at a whopping $1000 US, this CPU featured also 8 Cores 16 Th...

www.youtube.com

How much did you pay for it and what are the rest of your specs?

subbytna · 7 Jul 2023 at 16:25

q6600 for me