Worth upgrading i7 5820K to i7 5960X?

[shamus21]

Upgrading CPU`s has been as been a side grade for a few years now and most likely will be for a few more.

 

[Gripen90]

Upgrading CPU`s has been as been a side grade for a few years now and most likely will be for a few more.

If you refer to gaming then yes indeed. Even a 2600K vs a 8700K with a modern card like GTX 1070 keeps up extremely well:

 

[gavinh87]

If you refer to gaming then yes indeed. Even a 2600K vs a 8700K with a modern card like GTX 1070 keeps up extremely well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMFd0aVhVKU

Change that GPU and the scores change significantly

That said, I don't see many people using a 1080ti with a 2600k.

 

[Gripen90]

Change that GPU and the scores change significantly

That said, I don't see many people using a 1080ti with a 2600k.

Yea ok ! I see the 1080Ti let the CPU's stretch their legs much more !

 

[~>Dg<~]

depends on the game and the gpu. battlefield and pubg and witcher there is massive differences.thing is 99 percent of these stupid reviewers use single player games.

 

[Caracus2k]

depends on the game and the gpu. battlefield and pubg and witcher there is massive differences.thing is 99 percent of these stupid reviewers use single player games.

I would imagine would some good reason? Hard to test consistently over multiple cycles in a multi player environment?

Of course this doesn't stop performance in multiplayer scenarios being relevant to the consumer.

 

[Aneskimo]

depends on the game and the gpu. battlefield and pubg and witcher there is massive differences.thing is 99 percent of these stupid reviewers use single player games.

Was going to point out game variation it’s something that doesn’t get mentioned enough with these reviews. I understand multiplayer is has its own set of issues as a Youtuber I remember how Crysis was the go to game to show system capabilities not that long ago

 

[Gripen90]

Had forgotten to set my fans to run after the CPU temperatures after the BIOS update. Setting them to CPU temperature target again took around 3~5°c off per core.
This after 2½ hours OCCT.

 

[DrYip]

If you were to play @ 1440p/4k the difference in fps between the 2600k and 8700k would be even less. Strictly speaking, games are still GPU bound at higher resolutions and a decent quad core past sandy bridge isnt warranted an upgrade.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

At 1440p the difference between a 2600k and 8700k is a good gain that would warrant an upgrade. Please read the other thread where people like you are spreading false information or you just don't know what you on about, either way stop.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-ivy-haswell-kabylake-vs-coffeelake.18796838/

 

[Gripen90]

As a final touch to it all. While I in my own rig got an i7 6900k, I managed to grab a i7 5960X also on ebay, which will replace my wife's i7 5820K. I can't wait to compare the 5960X vs 6900K.