Anandtech review:
It seems like the 5820k is the best bang for the buck. The 8 core one is stupid expensive.
What do you guys think? Anyone built a pc with these new cpu’s yet?
New i7 six and eight core CPU's are out
sirio
#2
The 5960 is a great option for single machine users, for render nodes best bang for the buck is surely the 5820, 4930k like performance but much cheaper.
The real problem with X99 is the price of DDR4 which is almost twice the DDR3 RAM price. I was considering to add two more 6core slaves to my farm but all the saving from the 5820 are wasted on the pricier RAM, so… maybe later…
DuttyFoot
#3
Anandtech review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/…i7-5820k-tested
It seems like the 5820k is the best bang for the buck. The 8 core one is stupid expensive.
What do you guys think? Anyone built a pc with these new cpu’s yet?
I was just saw the info on pcper and came to post the same thing 
pcper talks about the new chips and they also did an interview with Matt Dunford from intel
http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Interview-Intels-Matt-Dunford-about-Haswell-E-and-X99
I have been waiting for the new 8 cores but damn i didn’t realize they would be that expensive. I better start saving my pennies for it and the ddr 4 memory.
check out the new asus x99 mobos
I had been waiting this 8 core i7 for almost a year. Benchmarks show that 5960x performs quite closer to latest Xeons, so finally extreme edition i7s are really extreme. I think I am going to buy this CPU.
And 5960x is not exceptionally expensive. Intel always sets high end consumer-grade cpu’s at 1000$. 4960X, 3960X etc all costed around the same when they were new.
ThE_JacO
#5
I’m waiting to hear on things such as OC potential and cheaper DDR4 personally.
Right now the 5820k will depend entirely on OC for my day to day with the severely reduced clock speed, but if it clocks past the 4.5 mark and DDR4 will drop in price just a tad then it’ll be pretty awesome all around.
If it turns out to be one of those 10% margin early wafers like most of the last three years’ releases have been then it’ll have harder time justifying the overall higher system cost.
They also seem to be recommended liquid cooled right out of the gate due to a rather high power requirement and heat per sq inch ratio.
Not uber impressed just yet.
imashination
#6
One of the review sites had a go at overclocking, they got it to 4.5 but it wasnt usable, they had to slow it down to 4.2 to get it running long enough to finish a test, but I doubt that would be stable enough for actual usage.
DuttyFoot
#7
One of the review sites had a go at overclocking, they got it to 4.5 but it wasnt usable, they had to slow it down to 4.2 to get it running long enough to finish a test, but I doubt that would be stable enough for actual usage.
Saw this comment over at pcperspective.com
“This is the best review on the net so far.The idiots on the other sites are cooling the 5960x with a H80i and then complaining about temps”
Response:
" LOL well I did do that at first, before moving to the H100i."
ThE_JacO
#8
I’ll still reserve judgement for later, but I’m dubious for this year.
It always takes a handful of batches and one or two bios patches for OC potential to settle down properly.
As it is now DDR4 came out too pricey, but that’s also bound to change once the first quarter fever is over.
With the need to overvolt (that’s going to stay) to break past 4Ghz once on all cores with the highest end one (and 3.5 on the lower end one!) you’re looking at some 160+ W to dissipate, which means compounding the installation with a mid tier liquid cooling solution; a small radiator tends to shit itself at the 100 mark regardless of fan, the H100 would be the absolute minimum to deal with it, but something with a higher volume pump would be considerably better again.
So all in all the reasonably priced CPUs, once it’s all factored in, end up costing over double a Devil’s canyon for a mobo + ram + cpu, which is the minimum upgrade path with all the changes, for almost no relevant performance increase in well threaded operations, an OK (20-ish % say) one in optimally and widely threaded ones, and a noticeable drop in single threaded ones.
I’m not slamming the 5th gen, I’m actually kind of liking a lot of what I’m seeing and the pricing isn’t unreasonable.
For a new system once RAM goes down a tad in price it’ll be an excellent pick for a lot of scnearios IMO, but as an upgrade for those who have a lucky draw 4770k or any 49, well, not so much.
From my 4.7Ghz turbo and 4.35 8 virtual cores operations (relatively lucky 4770K) vs 3.5Ghz x12 if you’re lucky, after upgrading your cooling on top of everything else, is just not enticing enough.
The only major disappointment is the power consumption. I’m genuinely surprised of those specs.
140W baseline for a CPU with an alleged revamped production line, new socket, new ram, is a bit much.
I get it they are cramming a ton more transistor that are, fundamentally, unaltered Haswell ones into a die that’s only marginally larger, but it’s still a steep entry point to require low-mid tier liquid cooling before you even start OCing, and high flow liquid cooling for minimal overvolting kind of OC.
ThE_JacO
#10
Haha, I had the 920 and it’s been one of the longest lasting CPUs I’ve ever had. The first half of 9xx was such an excellent tick for Intel. Probably could have gone on for longer with it.
I’m pretty happy with my 4770k too given the price it came out for (and it was a lucky one, I usually keep it at 4.5 and that’s with a single fan radiator and no overvolting), and it looks like it was a good investment as it’s probably going to last me through this gen as well
mattmos
#11
Hey sheep, if you’re after a cheap upgrade, I just dropped a few xeon 5650 chips into my old x58 boards, most of them can reach 4Ghz without too much sweat. 6 cores for under 70 pounds on ebay
imashination
#12
Still on the 920 here too, but why the hell would you run one of the most overclockable cpus in recent memory at stock speeds? 
Its all of 30 seconds in the bios to pop it up to 3.5ghz
SheepFactory
#13
I need to google this sometime because I would love to do that but I know nothing about how to OC a cpu. 
imashination
#14
Enter the bios, increase the bclk by 5 and run it for a day or two to see if its stable, rinse and repeat. You can probably increase it until it shows 3.2ghz as a starting point.
DuttyFoot
#15
Enter the bios, increase the bclk by 5 and run it for a day or two to see if its stable, rinse and repeat. You can probably increase it until it shows 3.2ghz as a starting point.
if you use an asus board i think the AI Suite II Utility allow you to do this sort of thing from within windows.