Current replacement for Intel i7-5820K?

[Karsten75]

Right now, today, not in 3 or 6 months, is there a 6-core, hyper-threading replacement for the Intel i7-5820K? Can be Xeon or Core series.

Right now I can pick up a new i7-5820K for less than the i7-4790K. For the job I have in mind I think the i7-5820K will blow the i7-4790K away.

Thanks.

 

[cleanshot911]

Well since you have an X99 mobo (which you would have to have if you were running an i7-5820k) yes I would simply suggest buying another i7-5820k. It is still one of the best cpus on the market despite it being a couple years old. It's the cheapest cpu you're gonna get for an X99 at least, unless you want to go Xeon, but if you are gaming I'd suggest the i7-5820k. If you're using the pc as a server of some sort, or as a video editing machine, you might want to go with a Xeon.

 

[Karsten75]

OK, I should have said, this is a video editing machine and the motherboard isn't germane. I am leaning towards a Xeon, but then my eye caught the price of the 2013 i7-5280K and it got me thinking...

 

[cleanshot911]

I still think you should go with the i7-5820k, since it has the same number of cores as Xeons for around the same price, but it has a much higher clock speed, can be overclocked pretty heavily, while Xeons can't OC at all, and I'm pretty sure that the cache is the same, so I suggest going with the i7 5820k.

 

[Karsten75]

yea, thanks, that's more or less my thinking as well.