Is it worth it?

[gotovato]

Hey all, looking for some input and opinions here. I have the chance to pick up a used 5960x to upgrade my 5930k(setup is in sig). The seller is local, and is offering it at a reasonable price. He's overclocked it using a chilled custom loop setup and got it to 4.9ghz at 1.5v for benchmarking only purposes. He said it idled at 10c and maxed at 52c. He also said he runs is 24/7 at 4.5ghz at 1.276v which is not bad at all. I'm planning to sell my spare motherboard an asus x99-a, and my 5930k, this would almost make up for the entire cost of the upgrade. Would you do it? Is it worth it if most of the cost can be made up buy selling my stuff? Would you feel comfortable knowing it had 1.5v through it even if it was only for a day? Even with his cooling setup? Seller seems to know what he's talking about. Let me know why you guys think. Thanks!!

 

[Eximo]

Is there any reason for the performance upgrade other then "I can"

Why is this person selling? Can't really build a more potent system at the moment, so what is this person going with?

You don't say so, but you would also be getting the motherboard? Your results with overclocking may be completely different though. Different power supply and cooling may change things slightly.

 

[delaro]

I can't really say your going to see a massive improvement from that upgrade, will it be faster yes just nothing drastic, in most situations you wont notice much difference at all.

 

[gotovato]

So, the main reason...well because I can and it will probably help a bit more with my adobe premiere and after effects work. It would also be the last CPU upgrade for at least 3-4 years for me which is nice. The CPU would be going on my x99 sabertooth board. He mentioned he also ran it at 4.4ghz at 1.24v which is great so if I needed to up the voltage a tad for stability I could with good headroom.

He mentioned he's selling it because him and a buddy like to buy sell and swap parts, they buy a few of whatever and bin them out keeping the best for themselves. Sounds like a guy with too much cash haha. He gave me his eBay name and when I looked it up he had very solid feedback with no real issues.

If everything goes as I want, this upgrade may only end up costing me 100-200$ max. If you were in my position would you do it?

 

[gotovato]

Anyone else?

 

[GnarledAilanth]

Adobe Premiere can effectively make use of as many cores that you throw at it up to a point. Just read through this thread

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1901069?start=0&tstart=0

from the adobe forums and it seems clear that you would get a performance boost, with the additional 2 physical cores, but the decrease in core speed from 3.5 Ghz to 3.0 Ghz base frequency will eat into that advantage a little (see the intel ark info below). In addition to the two added physical cores, the xeon has 20 mb smart cache, 5 more than the 15 mb you currently have with the i7K.

http://ark.intel.com/products/82930/Intel-Core-i7-5960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-20M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

http://ark.intel.com/products/82931/Intel-Core-i7-5930K-Processor-15M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz

Bottom line, Adobe Premiere workflows will likely benefit from added cores (hard to know for sure without knowing your entire system). In terms of benefit/dollar if you are not already taking advantage of Adobe GPU acceleration with Nvidia GPUs, you may want to consider that before a cpu upgrade. Here is a link to the list of Adobe supported GPUs.

All the best,
Dylan

 

[Kriskowtff]

You wont see a big difference in performance imo keep the 5930k

 

[gotovato]

im still debating. i know in adobe work it will help but as too how much im not sure. it turns i can get the 5960x with the money i get from selling my parts and still have some left over.

 

[GnarledAilanth]

The folks over on the adobe forums might be the best to answer such a nuanced question of whether to upgrade your processor in relation to your specific workflow. Adobe staff even chime in sometimes.

https://forums.adobe.com/welcome

 

[gotovato]

Ok perfect. Thank you.