i7-5930k for gaming

[Guest]

Will this cpu be better for gaming than the i7-5960x, itll also be a little workstation, like a little video editing and a little photoshop

 

[geofelt]

For gaming, you want 2-3 fast cores.
Either I7 you mentioned would be very good for batch apps that are multithreaded like editing.
The extra cores are not helpful to the gamer.

The faster clock rates of the i7-6700K would be the best there is for gaming today.
The lesser cost means that you can budget more for the graphics card.

For photoshop, lots of ram is the key. You can get plenty on either platform.

 

[cub_fanatic]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

 

[Compuser10165]

Have a look at this link. http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1565
You can see both stock and overclocked benchmarks (the 5960X usually edges out the 5930K but you need to consider that few games can take advantage of more than 4 threads let alone 16). If your not doing intense video editing even the 5820K will siffice. (I would pick the 5930K over the 5820k only if you have SLI gpu's). I don't think it is worth to spend double on the 5960X (better save the money or put them in other components). Also keep in mind that it is possible that your 5960X woul be surpassed next year by an ~400$ cpu (Skylake-E). If money is of little concern pick the 5960X, otherwise pick the 5820K (the 5820k is a better overclocker due to fewer pcie lanes according to benchmarks).

 

[Guest]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

 

[cub_fanatic]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

Not better. Basically, there would be no benefit from having a 5960x for gaming over a 5930k. They would be about the same in the vast majority of currently available games. And, yes, your editing and workstation needs will be adequately met by a 5930k. It is a high-end pro-sumer CPU after all.

 

[Compuser10165]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

It would work well for both uses. You can even get the 5820K as it is not quite worth the difference for the 5930K if you don't need al 40 PCIe lanes of the cpu (5820k has 28 which is fine with two and even 3 way SLi at x8 mode).

 

[Guest]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

Not better. Basically, there would be no benefit from having a 5960x for gaming over a 5930k. They would be about the same in the vast majority of currently available games. And, yes, your editing and workstation needs will be adequately met by a 5930k. It is a high-end pro-sumer CPU after all.

what about gaming? what lga 2011-v3 will be good with gaming and still decent or good at the editing?

 

[cub_fanatic]

Like the other poster pointed out, the 5820K depending on what configuration you plan for your GPUs. If you are only planning for one maybe two GPUs, the 5820K is perfect and only around $50-60 more than a quad-core LGA 1150/1151 i7. The only other major difference is that it has a lower stock clock speed but you can easily OC it to the same speed of a 5930k with a decent CPU cooler which you should get anyway.

 

[Guest]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

It would work well for both uses. You can even get the 5820K as it is not quite worth the difference for the 5930K if you don't need al 40 PCIe lanes of the cpu (5820k has 28 which is fine with two and even 3 way SLi at x8 mode).

i will have 2 way sli 980ti 6gb 6g

 

[Compuser10165]

For gaming, the 6-core 5930k is about as good as it gets. Not many games are even using 4 threads let alone the 12 threads of this CPU or the 16 of the 5960x. For your "work" apps, you will see a pretty decent performance bump with the octa-core 5960x. You have to figure if spending $400 more on just the CPU is worth it. If you do a ton of editing and rendering projects, it might be. If you only use your PC for that occasionally and the extra few minutes or even seconds of rendering don't matter to you then the 5930k is the way to go. Spend the $400 on a better GPU or something that you will use more often.

So the i7-5930k would be better for gaming? and still good as a small work station for my editing needs?

Not better. Basically, there would be no benefit from having a 5960x for gaming over a 5930k. They would be about the same in the vast majority of currently available games. And, yes, your editing and workstation needs will be adequately met by a 5930k. It is a high-end pro-sumer CPU after all.

what about gaming? what lga 2011-v3 will be good with gaming and still decent or good at the editing?

It will also perform very good in gaming. It's a strong 6 core with hypethreading. It can handle a lot.

 

[cub_fanatic]

With 2x 980ti's, the 5820k would be the best bang for your buck. It is significantly cheaper than both the 5930k and 5960x while not sacrificing much in gaming vs those two and not much in workstation capabilities vs the 5930k especially with an overclock. With the money you save, you can get a decent $50 CPU cooler and a bigger SSD, a nicer monitor or whatever else you might want.

 

[Guest]

With 2x 980ti's, the 5820k would be the best bang for your buck. It is significantly cheaper than both the 5930k and 5960x while not sacrificing much in gaming vs those two and not much in workstation capabilities vs the 5930k especially with an overclock. With the money you save, you can get a decent $50 CPU cooler and a bigger SSD, a nicer monitor or whatever else you might want.

sorry for all the questions but i have one more, the i7-5930k how much better is it than i7-5820k?

 

[cub_fanatic]

With 2x 980ti's, the 5820k would be the best bang for your buck. It is significantly cheaper than both the 5930k and 5960x while not sacrificing much in gaming vs those two and not much in workstation capabilities vs the 5930k especially with an overclock. With the money you save, you can get a decent $50 CPU cooler and a bigger SSD, a nicer monitor or whatever else you might want.

sorry for all the questions but i have one more, the i7-5930k how much better is it than i7-5820k?

As mentioned earlier, the main differences are native PCIe lanes (40 vs 28 in the 5820k) and a lower clock speed (200 MHz and 100 MHz turbo). You only need 40 PCIe lanes if you are using multiple GPUs (more than two) as well as other PCIe expansion cards or SSDs. Two 980tis will perform virtually the same on a an overclocked 5820k @3.5 GHz as they would on a stock 5930k even though on the 5930k they would both be running in full PCIe 3.0 x16, x16 mode as opposed to x8, x8 on the 5820k which is standard for SLI on consumer level boards like LGA 115x. You could spend a bit more on a better motherboard, though, with a PLX chip that would give you more PCIe 3.0 lanes than a 5820k can provide natively. That plus a small overclock are ways in which you can equal the gaming performance of a 5930k on a lower budget. x8, x8 should be fine, though, even for two beast cards like the 980ti. Once you throw a 3rd or 4th GPU into the mix then the number of lanes come into play affecting performance. Besides differences in stock performance, you will also be able to achieve a higher overclock on the 5930k. It will be more stable than the 5820k once you eclipse ~4.0 GHz.

 

[geofelt]

For gaming, the single core passmark rating of the 5930K is 2084.
That is virtually identical to the 5820K at 2003.
For gaming, which depends on a few fast cores, your best processor is a i7-6700K with a single thread rating of 2288.
Moreover, all the "K" chips can be overclocked. It is easier to OC a 4 core ship higher than a 6 or 8 core processor.

Lastly, Any cpu lag will be more noticeable in gaming responsiveness than in slightly longer batch editing runs.

It all comes down to what is more important to you.... gaming or editing.
You will be pleased with whatever you pick.

 

[Compuser10165]

With 2x 980ti's, the 5820k would be the best bang for your buck. It is significantly cheaper than both the 5930k and 5960x while not sacrificing much in gaming vs those two and not much in workstation capabilities vs the 5930k especially with an overclock. With the money you save, you can get a decent $50 CPU cooler and a bigger SSD, a nicer monitor or whatever else you might want.

sorry for all the questions but i have one more, the i7-5930k how much better is it than i7-5820k?

The I7 5820k and i7 5830k are almost identical except (as I explained above) the difference in PCIe lanes and a slight difference in clock speed (not important as you can overclock). You'll want the 5930k only if you have more than 2 gpu's (you can even run 3 gpu's on the i7 5820k) or need more pcie lanes for (pcie) ssd's otherwise the i7 5820k is the best choice for editing and gaming. For just gaming and minor occasional editing I would pick the i7 6700k as it has better single threaded performance (at stock and oc'ed) than the i7 5820K. Also the i7 5820k is a better overclocker so I would say the i7 5820k is better (than the 5930k) (when oc'ed) unless you have specific needs that require close to the 40 PCIe lanes of the i7 5930k.