Best lga 2011-v3 cpu

[Guest]

What would be the best 2011-v3 cpu for mostly gaming and a little bit of a work station, like video editing and Photoshop and other things of that nature, but mostly gaming like fallout 4 and Star wars battlefront type of games. Will be paired with sli 980tis

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I7-5960X

 

[sammy sung]

If you're only going to SLI two 980 Ti's and the main purpose of the tower is gaming, I'd skip X99 completely. Very few heavily threaded workloads get a real definable benefit from the X99 platform. Whereas gaming is concerned, it's not really a thing. I'd call anyone with three or more card set-ups more of an enthusiast, rather than a gamer.

Three and four card set-ups begin to heavily lose their price to performance standing, even with X99. Way too many issues, way too much money. I'd in your shoes go with an i7-6700K with something moderate like a Cryorig H7 air cooler. Then go for the lowest speed, lowest latency memory with a decent heat shroud. I've seen a few decent kits of 2133 cas 12. Great for overclocking

Overall you probably won't benefit from allocating the budget to things other than your graphics configuration.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Except he does video editing and photoshop.

 

[drtweak]

Well ANY 2011 V3 CPU will do great. Video editing is more about RAM most of the time but things like 3D animation is more about CPU/GPU power.

even if you got the lowest 2011 CPU it will be a monster but if you really want a monster you need to get the 5930 and not the 5820k because the 5820k has only 28 PCIe lanes where as the 5930/5960 have 40 lanes giving each video card a full 16 lanes but even at PCIe 3.0 8 lanes for each video card should be enough.

 

[Guest]

Except he does video editing and photoshop.

Yeah, i was looking at the i7-5930k would that be just as good?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Except he does video editing and photoshop.

Yeah, i was looking at the i7-5930k would that be just as good?

No it would not be as good as the 3960X. I would almost always recommend the 3820K over the 3930K. The 3930K costs $200 more for .2Ghz higher stock frequency, more PCI lanes, and probably a couple other minor things. Has the same number of cores as the 3820K.

3960X is undoubtedly the best, but I would only pick it if your work is very professional-grade, such as if you are a pro photographer.

 

[sammy sung]

and a little bit of a work station

I guess I took that too literally? It would also depend on the individual apps as to whether or not the extra threads would really be of benefit. Or whether the benefit is worth the price delta.

*Edit*

Also, that's the most impressively consistent string of typos I've ever seen xD

 

[Guest]

Except he does video editing and photoshop.

Yeah, i was looking at the i7-5930k would that be just as good?

No it would not be as good as the 3960X. I would almost always recommend the 3820K over the 3930K. The 3930K costs $200 more for .2Ghz higher stock frequency, more PCI lanes, and probably a couple other minor things. Has the same number of cores as the 3820K.

3960X is undoubtedly the best, but I would only pick it if your work is very professional-grade, such as if you are a pro photographer.

im not a pro photographer though, im just doing video editing for like youtube and stuff and photoshop just for fun, and gaming mostly

 

[turkey3_scratch]

5820K I would still recommend. It does not struggle in games.

 

[iamacow]

Being someone who does use computers for video editing and work. I am still rocking a i7 3930k (6 core 3.2ghz) and its about the same as the 5820k. The main difference is the 2011-v3 uses DDR4 and that chip has less PCIE Lanes than the other chips. So YOU WILL be limited to 16x-8X SLI. Tri and Quad Sli will not work with that chip.

On the other hand, the i7-6700K which is the same price has the same amount of PCIE lanes but will be faster if you do not overclock that 5820k. I would still buy the X99 just because you can upgrade the chip later to 8 Core and run Tri / Quad Sli if you ever really wanted to.

I'm personally just waiting for the 128GB DDR4 kits to drop in price. $1500 is a little out of my reach.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I would like to see you use 128GB of RAM. When you do, you can rub it in my face.

 

[iamacow]

I would like to see you use 128GB of RAM. When you do, you can rub it in my face.

I use 64GB all the time working on large panoramas in Photoshop. Don't see why I wouldn't use the extra 64GB :/