Pros/Cons of 5820K

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I heard that there is a lack of available "lanes" on the 5820K. Is that the PCI-E lanes that the video card would use? I am confused as to what this is... Thank you.
 
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Yes, it has 28 pci express lanes, enough for a triple sli setup, each card uses 8 lanes, so you en up using 24 lanes, its a bit pricey, but the greatest drawback is the motherboard/ram price, you end up paying more for the mobo/ram than the cpu itself. If you want a cheapest solution, there are some 1150 motherboards that can do triple/quad way sli.
The 1150 socket processors like the 4670K and 4770K etc. have 16 lanes of PCIE-3.0 lanes.

A graphics card uses 16 lanes but doesn't really use them. It can get along well with only 8 lanes. There is some question if 8 lanes is enough for extreme usage such as SLI with top speed GPU's and a 4K display, but for normal usage, 8 lanes is enough.

The 5820K ups it from 16 lanes to 28 lanes. That is really pretty nice. You can have three GPU's at X8 each or if two boards, X16 and X8. The 5820K is in Intel's 2011-3 socket which can have up to 40 lanes. The 5930K and 5960X have a full 40 lanes so with a dual SLI you have both at X16 and triple you can have X16, X16 X8. and with quad, X16, X8, X8, X8. Of course you can get PLEX bridges in motherboards that can switch PCIE lanes so you can have as much as you want, but there is a small speed penalty to pay. So they really don't quite help much for gaming. I believe they can help for professional usages.

The 5820 is a nice forward looking CPU. It has 6 cores and 12 hyper-threaded cores which will come in handy in the coming years as software and games slowly adapt and use more and more cores. But you need to overclock it for its standard speed is pretty slow.
 
Yes, it has 28 pci express lanes, enough for a triple sli setup, each card uses 8 lanes, so you en up using 24 lanes, its a bit pricey, but the greatest drawback is the motherboard/ram price, you end up paying more for the mobo/ram than the cpu itself. If you want a cheapest solution, there are some 1150 motherboards that can do triple/quad way sli.
 
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Well, one of the cons of the 5820k is the following:
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I've seen people 4k game on an i7 4790 or Xeon 1276 at 60+framerates just fine. For the same price you can buy up to date processors for twice as long as that one would last you.
 


Why would buying an older chip last me longer than a newer one?
 
Wow, that is fast. How (mind me) future proof would this chip be? Obviously in 3 years it will be outdated but will it still be able to do the rendering and gaming that I need it to do on reasonable settings and time constraints?
 
" Clock Speed " I have the 5820k+ Asus X99-Pro+ corsair vengeance lpx 16gb ddr4-2800 PNY GTS 650 2GB, Frame Rate is usually around 45-62 @1080P depending on AA Level. I Wasn't planning on going SLI so this processor was perfect for me. I have it Overclocked at 4.1 and it hovers around 90F, I have Pushed it to 5.4 but my Lucifer2 is not enough to keep it cool for very long, got up to 124F... The longest I ran it at 5ghz was 10 min.. I absolutely love this Build though, The best Investment I have made in years.