Is the 5930k a good CPU?

[yumri]

I just got a computer from iBuyPower with it inside and i am wondering if the 5930k is a good choice for the 5 to 10 years i will be keeping the computer for?
The uses of the computer will be as follows: gaming on multiplayer FPS, MMORPGs, single player RPGs, self made games and random others | 3D modeling and animation as a hobby | video streaming of game play | misc. other basic stuff which runs on a much lesser processor anyways.

 

[slyu9213]

Yup

 

[yumri]

ok good just making sure is all as it took like a month to get here is all probably becuase it is or was december and thus Christmas time but still i did not like the wait as i am still on my old computer with an i5-3330 in it from HP it preforms well ... enough but does not do to well when making high vertice count animations and lags alot in some games when turned onto max graphics and etc. like that also that might be becuase of the ageing GT620 in the HP one but whatever the new computer should be all ok and last alot long time for me ... or at least i hope so.

 

[slyu9213]

ok good just making sure is all as it took like a month to get here is all probably becuase it is or was december and thus Christmas time but still i did not like the wait as i am still on my old computer with an i5-3330 in it from HP it preforms well ... enough but does not do to well when making high vertice count animations and lags alot in some games when turned onto max graphics and etc. like that also that might be becuase of the ageing GT620 in the HP one but whatever the new computer should be all ok and last alot long time for me ... or at least i hope so.

The i5 3330, although aging a little, it is still a great processor. Better than most AMD processors really. The reason why you were getting lags on high graphics setting in games is because a GT 620 is not a video card meant for gaming. Upgrading the video card in your current PC would be enough to play games on much higher settings. At this point your i5 3330 won't be much of a bottleneck to any video card. You could buy anything from the now entry level GTX 750 or up to GTX 980 and play on high/max settings with very good FPS. Same with going with an AMD 250X up to a R9 290X.

The i5 3330 is great for gaming but the 5930K would be a big upgrade for non-gaming things like 3D modeling, animation, video editing, etc. It may also help with online video games (maybe). Even now games won't use more than 4-cores most of the times. The 5930K being a six core will definitely help even with gaming if they would use more than 4 cores/threads sooner.

 

[yumri]

ok and good to know that too as i might try to get a family member into some of the games that i play thus i will just upgrade this current computer with the i5-3330 in it to um i guess a GTX 970 since that is the cheaper one atm though after it comes down in price a little more and i can build up the funds to afford it as that computer beside me now was $3,332 and that took alot out of my saveings for a new computer .. still it will be fun to play on a LAN again as almost no lag on a 1Gbps LAN connection while there is a ton of lag on a 3Mbps connection to the internet.

 

[yumri]

whats funny about wanting to keep a platform for 10 years? and yes i know i will have to upgrade like the video card when the next generation of non-driver based APIs come out and/or when 8k is a thing for computers as the GTX 980 is not so good at 4k so it will not be so good with 8k either. Besides those issues i see this computer with the networked feroda 21 file server for storage to be a nice investment for the next decade ... unless my work mandates that i move to another CPU instruction set but i highly doubt that Intel nor AMD nor any start up company will have the pulling power to get video editing software makers to compile only in a non-x86 based instruction set so 10 years is something also i already have a computer for when doing websurfing, word processing and/or light gaming and it is going on 14 yrs old atm.
I am unsure why ppl think computers should only last 3 to 5 years when all that you really need to upgrade is probably the video card after that time to which as everything is PCI-e based for expantion cards atm unless there is a major shift in it by that time you will be able to upgrade with maybe a upgraded stronger / better PSU too to make it work without going over the power limit.

 

[yumri]

Moors Law isnt actually a "Law" it is more of an observation of how technology was moving back then ... to this it moved pretty quickly then compared to now where as we are only making minor tweaks and refinements to the best of what was back then ... my main example the SSD the concept is the same as a static RAM drive but it uses NAND flash instead of static RAM why i really am not sure as they do the same thing just NAND supposely does it better for cheaper ... with CPUs it is about a 10% ~ 15% increase in preformance at most and decreaseing each year for Intel and slightly less so for AMD though AMD hasnt come out with anything CPU wise in a year or 2. With Graphics cards it is more like every 2 or 3 years you actually see a new GPU architure improvement that will make a diffenrece over the last one overclocked and tweaked.
Moor's Law is now breaking as technology hits a optimum point to which we will have to either switch what we are making it out of or just out right stop and go over to more optimzations of software and/or making the CPU more of a SoC thing than it is now ... to that i hope at least Intel will with includeing a native M.2 controller for a PCI-e x4 M.2 drive to make it even faster than it is now instead of haveing to transcode it from PCI-e to M.2 commands through use of another chip interface.

 

[yumri]

year 7 it will no longer be at the top of the computer line but it will only need a graphics card upgrade to keep up with the changeing technology as i have researched this and on the future years most likely the CPU will most likely still hold up to run most anything and the GPU will need upgrades to it yes while the RAM and SSDs will most likely be ok but if they fail they are fairly simple to replace same with the linux server that it is hooked up to. So yes on year 7 the 980 will suck but on years 1 through 5 the 980 will still be fairly good for 1600p gaming