i7 5820k for gaming now or in the near future?

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lord hircine

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Im still using a old ass i7 920 with a gtx 260. Would upgrading to a i7 5820k improve games that requires a strong cpu?. I know most of you would suggest a i7 4790k but i heard some games requires more than 4 cores and the new ones thats coming in the future are going to. Im gonna build a entire rig with all new parts. Planning to pair the 5820k with a single gtx 980. I won't be overclocking the cpu or the gpu.

Single monitor 1080, - im not going higher than 1080p because i don't want to sit so close to a big ass screen and i want very high fps on my screen. These are the two reasons that even tho im only using a single 1080p, i still want a gtx 980 and a i7 5820.

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Yes many games currently use 4-cores, and some are starting to use more. However, its still a bad time to be an early adopter of the i7-5820k. The main reason being the cost of the platform. The CPU is relatively cheap for what you get, but for example the RAM for the system is like $400 for 16GB of RAM. That is crazy expensive. You would be pushing past $1100 after just buying the CPU, motherboard, and the RAM.

Not to mention on a single monitor at 1080 nothing about this build isn't over kill. Maybe if you did 120Hz monitor but otherwise at 1080p CPU and GPU performance is over kill.
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Yes the Core i7 5820k will give you better performance with a GTX 980. Also the i7 5820k is actually better than the 4790k in gaming, however going to the X99 platform will be costly especially with the new DDR4 RAM out. But yea, I think it would be wise to do a upgrade. Oh and If your just gonna game at 1080P just get urself a GTX 780 its cheaper, ur still gonna get 70+ FPS either way.
 
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Yes many games currently use 4-cores, and some are starting to use more. However, its still a bad time to be an early adopter of the i7-5820k. The main reason being the cost of the platform. The CPU is relatively cheap for what you get, but for example the RAM for the system is like $400 for 16GB of RAM. That is crazy expensive. You would be pushing past $1100 after just buying the CPU, motherboard, and the RAM.

Not to mention on a single monitor at 1080 nothing about this build isn't over kill. Maybe if you did 120Hz monitor but otherwise at 1080p CPU and GPU performance is over kill.
 
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