Upgrade from x79 to x99 worth it?

[warzeta]

im sitting on a e5 2690 with 32gb ram and 2x 980 ti , wondering if is worth it to upgrade to a 5960x? how does my cpu against it?

 

[Blain]

No

 

[Burpo]

Not much.. Tho the 5960X is much cheaper..

Passmark 14,418
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2690+@+2.90GHz

Passmark 16028
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+@+3.00GHz

 

[YBS1]

Depends entirely on if you plan to overclock the 5960X, if so per core performance would be significantly higher. That you mentioned having two 980Ti's infers you are concerned about game performance.

 

[crashtech]

Not much.. Tho the 5960X is much cheaper..

Passmark 14,418
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2690+@+2.90GHz

Passmark 16028
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+@+3.00GHz

I couldn't bear the thought of buying a 5960X for gaming and not overclocking it! Taking a look at the "Overclocked CPUs" chart at Passmark shows the average "out of spec" 5960X score to be 19029. I am willing to bet that most purposely OCed units would exceed that score, so as has been mentioned, it depends entirely on the willingness to OC.

 

[Lil'John]

As some have mentioned, if you plan to overclock, more than likely.

Another thing to consider is features on the board such as m2 drive support, NvMe drive support, USB 3.1 support, etc.

Personally, I won't be upgrading my X79 system(3930k + RIVE board) I will probably be skipping the X99 series entirely. USB functionality isn't something I overly use or care about. The bootable NvMe support is the one killer for me though.

 

[nenforcer]

At least the 5960X has 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes unlike the 5820 which only has 28. You couldn't run your dual 2 x 980TI in SLI on that chip.

That's my complaint about the X99 is that Intel gimped the entry level chip forcing you too spend $500+ on the higher end chip.

 

[crashtech]

I haven't seen too much evidence to indicate that GPUs running PCIe 3.0 x8 suffer measurable performance degradation.

 

[nenforcer]

I haven't seen too much evidence to indicate that GPUs running PCIe 3.0 x8 suffer measurable performance degradation.

That's true but this is Intel Enthusiast platform we are talking about. They never previously gimped their X48, X58, or X79 the way they did with X99. Forcing users to buy a $500+ chip instead of the $350 version just to get full SLI / Crossfire is inexcusable in my opinion.

 

[crashtech]

That's true but this is Intel Enthusiast platform we are talking about. They never previously gimped their X48, X58, or X79 the way they did with X99. Forcing users to buy a $500+ chip instead of the $350 version just to get full SLI / Crossfire is inexcusable in my opinion.

It's a money grab from people that think they have to have the extra lanes, to be sure, but I would not be too concerned about running 2 GPUs with 28 lanes. You can run dual GPUs all day on Z97 with 16 lanes, so 28 is a bonus, and the 5820K is not really all that expensive compared to previous generation hexacores. Certainly with tri- or quad- anything you have to step up, but that's not something too many of us will be worrying about.

 

[YBS1]

That's true but this is Intel Enthusiast platform we are talking about. They never previously gimped their X48, X58, or X79 the way they did with X99. Forcing users to buy a $500+ chip instead of the $350 version just to get full SLI / Crossfire is inexcusable in my opinion.

I have to disagree, this is the first time the product differentiation has made sense. They finally gave me a reason to purchase the "extreme edition". Before it's always been slightly higher default speeds, or more cache, etc. This time there is a legitimate benefit to each step up the tiers. Yes, we all know the 5820K is intentionally hamstrung on the pci-e lanes, but they've also never had a HEDT chip be almost at price parity with the top mainstream chip either. You want more cores but don't want to pay an exorbitant price, that's the chip for you. Need more lanes for multi gpu? They have something for that. Even more cores? Something for that.

 

[YBS1]

I couldn't bear the thought of buying a 5960X for gaming and not overclocking it! Taking a look at the "Overclocked CPUs" chart at Passmark shows the average "out of spec" 5960X score to be 19029. I am willing to bet that most purposely OCed units would exceed that score, so as has been mentioned, it depends entirely on the willingness to OC.

21327 at my daily 4.5GHz if I'm looking at the right thing, never used Passmark before.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

i made the same day the same question-thread! (but u have a octacore)