Intel Core i7 5960x

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Well as we all know, the 5960x is INSANELY powerful compared to any other CPU. And I know it's normal clock is 3.00 ghz. I was wondering that if I buy it, if I can clock it up to 4.00 ghz like the 4790k and get better performance the 4790k
 
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Honestly the 5960x performance will depend on the applications it is being used for. In terms of games, my 4930k will work just as well...and a 4790k will work the same as that in games pretty much also. Unless you plan on running a ton of simulation programs it is not worth getting...unless you just have money to blow and want to claim a better system than others. My 4930k works great for streaming, recording, gaming, web browsing at the same time.
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Honestly the 5960x performance will depend on the applications it is being used for. In terms of games, my 4930k will work just as well...and a 4790k will work the same as that in games pretty much also. Unless you plan on running a ton of simulation programs it is not worth getting...unless you just have money to blow and want to claim a better system than others. My 4930k works great for streaming, recording, gaming, web browsing at the same time.
 
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There is not much improvement over 4790k on gaming, but on rendering and heavy multitasking softwares, it will show some difference. However, if this is just a build for a home computer, and no heavy editing or rendering involved. you don't really need the extreme proc. 4790k will serve 100% of your needs.
 
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In terms of raw per-clock performance I think the 5920k actually tops the charts. Runs a little cooler then the 5930k. 5960x just has more cores and they will sit idle unless you do something crazy.

Best value/performance proposition for games is the i5-4690k. I like the i7-4790k for its base clock of 4.0Ghz, boost to 4.4Ghz. Many people are getting around 4.7-4.8Ghz when overclocking. Hard to beat that. May only be 4 cores with H/T but that is more then enough for gaming and even VM/Editing/Rendering and other assorted workloads.

The cost savings on the motherboard/RAM throw you up another tier in GPU.
 
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Are you just gaming and maybe a little streaming or recording? Or are you going to go full video editing and everything else CPU intensive?
 
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The 5930k should perform pretty much the same as the 4930k... http://ark.intel.com/compare/82931,77780 is a link that you can use to compare them...as you can see they are very similar. I have only been running mine with 16 GB DDR3 1866 MHz RAM because that was all I needed at the time...but am considering upgrading throwing in another 16 GB in the next few months...since my motherboard can handle 64 GB just fine.

Regarding your specific RAM for your build...honestly you don't need 2800 MHz or even 32 GB. 8 GB is the minimum you should go with...but ideally go with 16 GB for a minimum. Whatever is around a decent price for lower latencies and decent MHz is ideal. If you go with a 5930k...then you should be going with DDR4 which is more expensive...so I would suggest you go with decent clock, price, and latency RAM.
 
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Thats a good clock...but just make sure it has good latency. Honestly, from all the benchmarks for DDR3 between the various clocks and latencies there is not a huge difference between the slow RAM and the faster RAM...definitely not one to justify the cost...unless doing crazy amounts of simulations and such.

With DDR4 I don't know the stats for that. So get the best you can for the best price.
 
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