Is the i7 5820K a good choice for a CPU and best X99 motherboard under £300?

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Wayne Anderson

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The 5820 makes sense as long as you are doing no more than dual SLI and not hanging a whole lot more off of the PCI-E bus besides.

Otherwise it could be an excellent value. On average the performance difference between the 5820 and 5930 is around 5% based on some of the initial published benchmarks. So if you are doing single GPU and/or willing to accept a SLI configuration at x8 you can save 20% of the cost of the 5930 while giving up only 5% of the gross compute performance.
 
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In SLI you'd only get 1x16 and 1x8, so scaling wouldn't be as good as one would hope out of an "E" series processor. If you're going to run a single GPU, I'd say the 5820k is an excellent deal. If you want to run SLI, I would seriously consider the 5930k to run 16 x 16.
 
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chodamoyer

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yeah I think vellinious hit it on this one. if you are for sure going to be adding more than one graphics card and or a video card plus 2 or more pci express cards then you can start looking at the 5930k, b/c it seems the 5820k is only slightly less speed in terms of MHz less but yet they both can be overclocked so it's almost a tie with that aspect. I'd say if you don't mind spanding 600 dollars for the 5930k then you should probably consider spending 400 more for 5960x and get 2 more cores plus your 40 pci lanes.

what it has been in the past was the the 4930k was the sweet spot with 6 cores just like the 4960x and almost as fast but a 400 dollars cheaper. now most people will be falling under the 5820k or the 5960x and the 5930k doesn't seem as attractive.

when I was picking my parts I was considering this choice and intel did a good job of giving you options and price points this time around. Since I am only going 1 video card as I have done in the past, the 5820k was my choice.
 
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