Upgrade from 2500k to x99 ? Worth it ?

[Jordan777]

Hi

Had my current system for 3 years now. See below sig for specs. Now what I would like to find out is it worth me upgrading to this x99 chipset.I mainly play bf4 etc or should I just wait 12 months ? My current system runs bf4 on a 3 monitor setup at 5760x1200 at 80-100 fps with my 290x s? Or would you advise on anything else to upgrade my system or just leave it as it ?

Looking at the prices it's looking likely it's going to cost me 1k to swap out what I have at the moment for a 5930k ,board and ram I would say min of 1k but is it worth it ?
Advise welcome
Cheers

 

[Bart_Hunt]

I am switching from a 4770k and z87.
Mostly because I am not satisfied with performance and overclocking on my chip.

To be honest I would switch now, then again in a couple of years.
4930k + Asus x99 Deluxe + 16 gb G.Skill ram = 1k, just as you said.
Good upgrade imho.

 

[Retron]

I switched from a 2600K to a 5930K - both with 16GB RAM (one DDR3-1333, the other DDR4-2133). The only real difference I've seen so far is with encoding times, the new system is noticeably faster with encoding HD video.

Games I've tried so far, including WoW and BF4, seem to have very similar framerates. They're up very slightly, but that could just be sampling error. Then again, that's running at 1920x1080 on a GeForce 670. With two graphics cards I'd hope for more in the way of improvements, as both would get a full 16 PCIe lanes to play with, rather than both being in x8 mode.

Next year, when I plan to move to 4K, should see the 5930K/X99 platform coming into its own!

 

[colinmcr]

If you are just gaming mainly I doubt you'll see much difference at all. I have a similar setup to you and I have my Midas build also and tbh they aren't that far apart between the 2500k at 4.6 and the 4930k at 4.6 when gaming.

Not that I can tell while playing anyway.

I do notice when I'm editing video it makes a huge difference, but if you aren't doing anything like that on a regular basis then it's maybe not needed.

But hey if you got the urge to upgrade then go for it

 

[Bart_Hunt]

Well, I am doing some cpu bound tasks like video encoding too.
Sometimes have to leave pc online when I go to work in order to have it done by the time I get back. I am hoping to get some improvement there.

As for gaming, I barely do any these days, so I wouldn't see difference anyway

 

[Retron]

There is one other point worth mentioning, in that Haswell-E seems far more aggressive at downclocking compared to regular Sandy Bridge. Keeping an eye on clocks it seems to take quite a lot to force the CPU even to 3 GHz, let alone its nominal 3.5 GHz speed - during a WoW session, for example, even though it's doing 70 FPS, the clockspeed is generally around 2 to 2.7 GHz, with just the odd spike to 3 GHz or beyond. My old 2600K was above 3 GHZ throughout when playing WoW with the same settings.

I take it to mean that the 5930K is able to crunch the same amount of data at a significantly lower frequency, meaning less effort for the CPU. For all I know that could be the same for regular Haswell too - although the i3s at work stayed at their nominal max speed throughout a test superpi run.