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.

 

[Dunlop0078]

i shall read the post more thoroughly next time.

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

And im sorry if i irratated you i was in the wrong. Thanks for understanding.

 

[aleksanderdev]

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?

So exited to see how the quad will do with 5k monitors. perhaps 2-3 frames a sec xD
Seems like the 5930k is the best option than.

Thank you guys! 😀

Btw, does any one of you know if its possible to use a dedicated pc to record gameplay?

 

[Steven Bryant]

you know mate. you might make some websites incredibly happy if you sent them a detailed report on what you get with that setup!

 

[rolli59]

look at it this way 5820K has 28 lanes, quad sli at X8 is 4 x 8 = 32 and 5930K has 40 lanes. None of the reviews you have seen use up the lanes of the 5820K rather single card at X16!

 

[anbello262]

For nVidia sli, you need at least 8 lanes per card. Not because of performance reasos, but because nVidia won't allow you to use the card on a 4x slot.
Since you will be having 4 nVidia cards, 28 PICe lanes won't be enough.
You will NEED the extra lanes that the 5930 has.

 

[InvalidError]

You do not need an LGA2011 CPU to have enough lanes for quad-SLI: you can use an LGA1150 motherboard with PCIE switch. That would let you do x8x8x8x8 with an i7-4790k. Too bad the review of two such boards posted today does not include multi-GPU benchmarks.

Even with an i7-5960X, you would only be able to do x16x8x8x8, so no point in fretting over not being able to do x16 on all.

 

[Steven Bryant]

You do not need an LGA2011 CPU to have enough lanes for quad-SLI: you can use an LGA1150 motherboard with PCIE switch. That would let you do x8x8x8x8 with an i7-4790k. Too bad the review of two such boards posted today does not include multi-GPU benchmarks.

Even with an i7-5960X, you would only be able to do x16x8x8x8, so no point in fretting over not being able to do x16 on all.

im gonna take your point and not be an ignorant C***
and research this even harder than i did a month ago, you might be right through some loop hole hardware tricks.
people thought hyperthreading was impossible once..

 

[anbello262]

I don't really know about PCIe switches for quad SLI. I know that they add some latency to the data-chain, but I have no idea if that's a noticeable performance hit, or absolutely no effect at all.
I would research that issue very well before buying 1150 for quad-sli...

But, for CPU native PCIe lanes only, you would need a 5930k or a 5960x. The 5930k would be the best choice of the two, because of price and clock rates/overclock headroom.

If PCIe switches don't have issues with quad SLI, then the 4790k would be the best choice. Even better than the 5930k, because the 4790k can go quite higher with some overclock, and has more than enough cores/threads.

 

[mlga91]

If you're already spending a massive budget into 4 980's, i dont see the point in saving a few bucks and going with a 4790k and a plx chip, i'd get the 40 native pci e lanes over the switch.