Intel 5960X. Best CPU ever made.

[Jacky60]

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...

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[Jacky60]

£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.

 

[Jacky60]

£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 £800 and I still use it today and its now officially old but at 4K it still works with my 4090. 8 years old and still able to put up a fight is very decent imho BUT some games ARMA 3, TLOU 1, MSFS2020, it's really showing its age and will be retired V soon.

 

[Jacky60]

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

£799 in 2015, 32GB DDR@3000mhz, 4090 @stock

 

[Jacky60]

The thing with the likes of the 5960X, Core 2 Quads, the Xeons I mentioned, etc. they've not just outlived their generation but stayed relevant over a large timespan, some of the other CPUs were great within their generation/era for various reasons whether performance, value for money or overclockability, or a combination of, etc. but quickly became obsolete once their generation moved on.

A lot of the mini PCs, Windows tablets, etc. have only just started to pull away from the better Core 2 Quad cores for performance interestingly (the outgoing J4125 for instance was broadly comparable to the Q9550).

Exactly my point, my 920 was great but it only lasted a generation or 1.5 whereas my 5960X hasn't (it really has a bit tbh) let me down in 8 years and that's amazing longevity for a CPU.

 

[Jacky60]

Glad to hear it x2

Enjoy.

Thanks appreciate it, I'm sort of excited about 7800X3D and hope to bejesus I notice a big difference. Hell Let Loose I get killed a lot but suspect its me getting old.

 

[Jacky60]

Yeah, try not to catch old age, that stuff seems terminal.

Says the man with the 1800X