i7-5930K Best gaming cpu?

[aleksanderdev]

Hi.
Is this the best gaming cpu out there?
I dont care about not being worth the extra cost etc.
Does this produce more frames per second than overclocked i7 4770k, 4790k, 5960X?
Havent' found game benchmarks for this.


Building a complete new gaming rig:
Quad 980's 8gb watercooled.
ASUS X99-E WS, Socket-2011-3
5x3 4K Monitors, nvidia surround. I do not expect my quad setup to be able to run this decently, but it will be interesting to try.

 

[rolli59]

For the price the I5 4690K is best, if you want I7 4790K follows next. The LGA 2011-3 platform is more suited for productivity for its added price it has little benefit on gaming over the LGA 1150 platform
When money is no issue the LGA 2011-3 platform is best suited for you GPU setup!

 

[frag06]

No, it's not going to give you more frames than a 4790K. But, since you are thinking of doing quad 980's, you would need this CPU (or an E series CPU in general) for the 40 PCI-E lanes.

 

[Steven Bryant]

well in multi threaded games itll rip a new anus in anything, in single threaded games (there are still a few yes though buggy and patched 100 times) it will do worse than any other i7-47xx
but realy gaming and even multitasking beyond an i7 4790k wont give you any improvements whatsoever

 

[Dunlop0078]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

 

[Steven Bryant]

and that 5930 would be neccesary for quad channeling though!

 

[InvalidError]

If you "haven't found benchmarks," then you must not have looked very hard...

In most games, the i7-5930k gets beaten by the i7-4790k and i7-5820k for both FPS and frame time variance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,3918-6.html

Something is not quite right with the i7-5930k's performance but Tom's is not the only site to have noticed that oddity.

 

[aleksanderdev]

Found benchmark test now and the 5820K scored the highest.
But it only has 28 lanes not 40 as the other 2, how will this affect the following?
A quad sli setup
SSD express
Recording huge amounts of data with recording software. With my current setup, 2 titans and 4790k i'm struggelig recording 4k material. its ok for the first 20 sec, than it seems some buffer fills up.
Im writing it to 4 ssds with read write 2gb.
Using realtime monitoring, the highest register'd disk usage while recording was 1.1 GB.
Thinking it has to do with the bandwidth?

 

[aleksanderdev]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answers like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

 

[Steven Bryant]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

and especially as an i5-4690k wont handle quad channel... i keep seeing this and it nibbles my jibblies everytime

 

[Dunlop0078]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

 

[Steven Bryant]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

it doesnt have the lane capacity for quad channel

 

[aleksanderdev]

and that 5930 would be neccesary for quad channeling though!

5820K has 28 lanes yet still beats the other models with 40 lanes.
Though test was done with a single gpu.
Im guessing its becuse the 5820K gets a higher oc.

 

[Dunlop0078]

An i7 is not worth the price for a gamer period the end. Maybe in a few years but not today but if you like to waste money thats up to you i gave my opinion and ill leave it at that.

 

[Dunlop0078]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

it doesnt have the lane capacity for quad channel

You dont need lane capacity for quad channel.

 

[Steven Bryant]

and that 5930 would be neccesary for quad channeling though!

5820K has 28 lanes yet still beats the other models with 40 lanes.
Though test was done with a single gpu.
Im guessing its becuse the 5820K gets a higher oc.

i dont think you understand lanes...
the problem is the resources between gpus would be recieved too slim and you might aswell only have 3 gpus

 

[Derza10]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

Your statement is only true if you choose to ignore the fact he is going to be quad SLI'ing.

 

[Dunlop0078]

and that 5930 would be neccesary for quad channeling though!

5820K has 28 lanes yet still beats the other models with 40 lanes.
Though test was done with a single gpu.
Im guessing its becuse the 5820K gets a higher oc.

i dont think you understand lanes...
the problem is the resources between gpus would be recieved too slim and you might aswell only have 3 gpus

O sorry i feel stupid i was under the assumption this was for a single gpu rig.

 

[Dunlop0078]

i shall read the post more thoroughly next time.

 

[aleksanderdev]

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

For gaming i would just get an i5 4690k thers no point to get an i7 if your just gaming thats a waste.

I'm sorry but I'm gonna rage a bit her.
I hate answears like this, i even wrote at the top I dont care about not being worth the extra cost and yet still someone mange to replay with such a comment.

You asked me whats the best cpu for gaming i told you if you want to waste hundreds of dollars for 1-2 fps if that, then thats up to you im just trying to give you some sensible advice.

it doesnt have the lane capacity for quad channel

You dont need lane capacity for quad channel.

Could you explain that please?

I have to disagree, not with the lanes but with the i7 not being worthy.
If you didn't catch it at the top, I have 5 4k monitors, Im gonna setup in surround mode.
Your saying an i5 would perform good enough compared to an extreme i7?
Alas, for 1080p, the i7 4770k or 4790k is absolutly worth it compared to the best i5, for gaming!
Iv played plenty and in many games my cpu works at a 100%.

 

[Steven Bryant]

i shall read the post more thoroughly next time.

sorry for misunderstandings, and if anything i said had irritated you, it happens my bad

 

[rolli59]

You will need the 40 lanes for quad SLI making the 5930K the best option.

 

[anbello262]

For quad gpu, then the 5930 would be the best choice. 6 cores/threads is a lot, and it is one of the only two chips to support 4way SLI (the other being the 5960X)
I suggest the 5930 over the 5960X, not only because of price, but also because it has 2 less cores, and will therefore be more likely to overclock a little bit higher, I believe (considering that no game can use that many threads anyways).

I would guess that for 5x 4K not even quad 980sli would be enough to achieve good framerates on high enough settings, though...
It depends on the game, and the settings/framerates you expect to get. Have you watched surround 4k benchmarks with 4x980?

 

[rolli59]

Default speed on the 5930K is higher as well than the 5960X so single core performance is higher.

 

[aleksanderdev]

You will need the 40 lanes for quad SLI making the 5930K the best option.

is there any research done on this matter? Articles etc?
The 5820K gives better performance than the 5930k in games from the benchmarks I'v seen.
Thought it has 28 lanes not 40.
Is there a way to monitor this things under load?
How much bandwidth is actually being used.
Weather or not 28 lanes are enough, or how close to 40 lanes is being utilized?

And wich one would allow for the best oc?