Intel Core i7-6950X worth it ?

[Dangz]

Im going to upgrade my CPU, right now I have the i7-5820K so my question Is does it make much difference on gaming if I buy the Intel Core i7-6950X? maybe in the future I will do some video editing but my total purpose is for gaming, it is worth it getting it? or maybe the i7-6850K I need little help here, feel free to answer 🙂

 

[RCFProd]

A few games on the entire market that support up to 8 threads will benefit from extra physical cores. Especially thinking of Battlefield for this one, that will run better than ever. We are talking of maybe 4-5 games out of thousands that will see good benefits. Is a 1000 dollar processor worth it for that?

Edit: I misread it, thought the topic was the i7-5960X

Updated answer, nah. Not really.

 

[Chugalug_]

Don't bother, the 5820k is an amazing CPU, and will last for another 3-4 years no problem, especially if OC'd.

 

[Chugalug_]

Don't bother, the 5820k is an amazing CPU, and will last for another 3-4 years no problem, especially if OC'd.

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

You could argue that the 5820K is overkill for gaming and therefore not good value for money.

Even with video editing on the horizon, neither the 6950X nor 6850K are worthwhile upgrades really. They'll get the job done faster, sure, but that's all they'll do.

 

[RCFProd]

Has the thread name changed from 5930k to 5960x? So my previous post becomes relevant again.

 

[lordmogul]

Just a handful of games are actually using more than 4 cores properly today.
For gaming either of them is overkill nowadays. There is a different story about content creation, especially video rendering)
Just keep what you have unless you are actually using all these cores and the price to performance ratio is worth it.
Either choice might be a relatively safe bet into the future.
But keep in mind that by the time you will see your cores properly used, they might be already to slow individually.

Take a look at the good old Q6600:
It it''s day, games were mostly using 2 cores and by the time there was a noticable benefit in having a quad core, games already needed so much power that is was to slow in comparison. (Crysis runs faster on a E8400 than on a Q6600 and Crysis 3 runs crap on both)
In retrospective not actually worth it for gaming, but great for stuff that used 4 cores.
Still a honorable chip, the first quad core Intel sold to the consumer market!

 

[Chugalug_]

Heaps of games actually utilize 8 threads well, which is why the high end gaming CPU of choice is typically the 6700k.
Can't say the same for 12 threads and higher though.