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New rig 5960x

Nhirlathothep

Nhirlathothep

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Now my gaming pc is an old sandy-e (3970x @5ghz)

I am not going to sell this rig, but i am thinking about buy another one.

Is 5960x worth the "upgrade"? I hope to clock it at 4.7ghz, but atm i don t know if it can handle it.
 
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Forget 4.7Ghz unless you get a Golden chip and UBER cooling. Since you have a 3970x @5Ghz you probably got an excellent chip.

I had a 3930k @4.6Ghz and went to a 5960x rig. Not a huge jump other than synthetic benchmarks. As for as OCing my chip is probably average or slightly less. However, at 4.4Ghz it can run Asus RealBench all day without crashing. If I increase the voltage 4.5-4.6 is doable but the heat really builds and I have a custom water cooled system (see below in specs).

I think it's the luck of the draw on chip OCing. I'm not disappointed because the 5960x brings all the new bells and whistles to the table including 8 full cores etc.
 
I linked it in another thread, but Tom's Hardware recently did an article on overclocking the 5960x and they seem to be able to consistently reach 4.5ghz with a water cooler, but they tested 5 chips and none could go past 4.6.

To answer your question, no, I would not upgrade, at least for gaming. Games are using more threads, but I dont think many at all can use more than the six cores that you have.
 
No, your 5ghz Sandy E is a pretty golden chip. Unless you get a similarly perfect chip you'll end up at the same speed or even a little slower
 
guskline said:
Forget 4.7Ghz unless you get a Golden chip and UBER cooling. Since you have a 3970x @5Ghz you probably got an excellent chip.

I had a 3930k @4.6Ghz and went to a 5960x rig. Not a huge jump other than synthetic benchmarks. As for as OCing my chip is probably average or slightly less. However, at 4.4Ghz it can run Asus RealBench all day without crashing. If I increase the voltage 4.5-4.6 is doable but the heat really builds and I have a custom water cooled system (see below in specs).

I think it's the luck of the draw on chip OCing. I'm not disappointed because the 5960x brings all the new bells and whistles to the table including 8 full cores etc.
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tnx, so i had too high hopes , i read some oc reviews where 4.7 was easy, but your direct experience is important and i thnk they had selected cpus

NTMBK said:
No.
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LTC8K6 said:
A few stock speed benches.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/994?vs=1317
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frozentundra123456 said:
I linked it in another thread, but Tom's Hardware recently did an article on overclocking the 5960x and they seem to be able to consistently reach 4.5ghz with a water cooler, but they tested 5 chips and none could go past 4.6.

To answer your question, no, I would not upgrade, at least for gaming. Games are using more threads, but I dont think many at all can use more than the six cores that you have.
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Headfoot said:
No, your 5ghz Sandy E is a pretty golden chip. Unless you get a similarly perfect chip you'll end up at the same speed or even a little slower
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i7Baby said:
Its not worth changing.

Gaming - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/...view-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested/6

CPU - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/...view-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested/5
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tnx, atm seems not worth, and the "future-proof theory" cant be applied here, because i can always upgrade later, as soon as it s worth (next year ? dunno... )
 
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