Upgrade Thinking: FX-8350 to i7 5820k/5930k Worth It?

  • Thread starter Deleted member 1740716
  • Start date
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
D

Deleted member 1740716

Guest
Long story short my graphics cards have been upgrading frequently but my Sabertooth 990fx has stayed with me but now I've got 2 GTX 980's in SLI and I'm wondering if it is time to upgrade to a 5820k or 5930k.

I know it would definitely be a upgrade from my FX-8350 but with the price of a new CPU, Motherboard and RAM I'm just wondering if it will be a noticeable upgrade for the cost.

So I was just wondering if anybody could share there wisdom / experiences.

Thanks.
 
Solution
Epsilon_0EVP
If you're just gaming, a few games should definitely be helped by the change, but some other will show basically no difference. It really depends on what game we are talking about. However, most AAA games do like the Intel CPU's more nowadays, so most of those should be well impacted.

If you're also doing productivity (like editing videos/photos), then the Intel will be a very good upgrade. The better per core performance and DDR4 will be a very noticeable improvement in most productivity software.

However, if this is just for gaming, I'd stick to a 4790K, or even a 4690K. In gaming, the difference between those CPU's and the Haswell-E series is minimal, but you save a lot of money. For editing, you could justify the cost, but I'd...
Sort by date Sort by votes
Epsilon_0EVP

Epsilon_0EVP

Honorable
Jun 27, 2012
1,350
1
11,960
If you're just gaming, a few games should definitely be helped by the change, but some other will show basically no difference. It really depends on what game we are talking about. However, most AAA games do like the Intel CPU's more nowadays, so most of those should be well impacted.

If you're also doing productivity (like editing videos/photos), then the Intel will be a very good upgrade. The better per core performance and DDR4 will be a very noticeable improvement in most productivity software.

However, if this is just for gaming, I'd stick to a 4790K, or even a 4690K. In gaming, the difference between those CPU's and the Haswell-E series is minimal, but you save a lot of money. For editing, you could justify the cost, but I'd still stick to the 4790K myself in most cases.
 
Upvote 1 Downvote
Solution
AdviserKulikov

AdviserKulikov

Honorable
Jan 13, 2015
1,099
0
11,960


+1 on the 4790K, currently the strongest CPU for gaming due to better per core performance. Better value as well. The 59XX series will eventually overtake it though, so a forward planning builder could consider choosing the 5920-5960 processors with intent to upgrade.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Epsilon_0EVP

Epsilon_0EVP

Honorable
Jun 27, 2012
1,350
1
11,960


What do you mean the 59xx series will overtake it? If we go by Intel's usual release schedule, there will be no more 59xx CPU's released, and it is very unlikely games will start using over 8 threads to the efficiency where a 5820K will have an advantage over a 4790K. The Haswell-E CPU's should still be mostly for enthusiasts and "prosumers" for productivity.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
AdviserKulikov

AdviserKulikov

Honorable
Jan 13, 2015
1,099
0
11,960


I'm probably being optimistic, but I do believe that they are going to be using more cores in the future since game developers will want to continue making the prettiest eye candy possible with larger crowds of enemies and 3D displays. There's going to hopefully be a push to better use the hardware available rather than just pumping up the requirements like EA and Ubisoft have been doing.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Epsilon_0EVP

Epsilon_0EVP

Honorable
Jun 27, 2012
1,350
1
11,960


It's possible, and I would love it if it happened (specially stopping the inflated requirements), but I still doubt it. Multi-core CPU's have been around for a decade, and very few games use more than two cores effectively nowadays. Only recently have we started to see games that flat-out do not work well with dual-cores. Eight-threaded games are still a long ways off. Besides, if we think of it purely mathematically, the performance difference between splitting the work from 1 core to 4 cores is much more dramatic than going from 4 cores to 8 cores. We'll see diminishing returns as we increase the core count in games, so 12 threads versus 8 threads won't be as dramatic an impact as previous advancements.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
geofelt

geofelt

Titan
Oct 9, 2006
54,277
4,132
174,240
The value of going to a 5820/5960/k cpu is that you will also get a X99 based motherboard that can effectively attach triple/quad graphics cards.
That is a very expensive proposition, not only for the cpu, but for DDR4 and a X99 motherboard.

If you are satisfied with the graphics capability of two cards, then I would stick with a Z97 based motherboard and i7-4790K

Most games depend on fast cores and not many cores.
You can test out that theory for YOUR games by disabling some of your FX-8350 threads and see if it impacts your fps.
MSCONFIG can set the number of startup cores.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
holyprof

holyprof

Distinguished
Dec 16, 2011
566
0
19,360
Sadly, all the talk about games and multi-core CPUs given above is entirely true.
I bought a Core2Quad Q6600 in 2006 hoping that future games would use the extra cores but it didn't happen until today. Most games i play don't even use 2 cores: i see 1 core at 100% and a second one jumping between 10 and 70% usage. The other 2 cores hover around 5-6% all of the time. Eight cores or 12-16 threads from those uber expensive socket 2011-v3 CPUs would be wasted for gaming (i hope the future will prove me wrong but don't hold my breath).

On the other hand, as already mentioned above, if you use the PC for demanding work like video editing, CAD, photo editing, physics or financial calculations or similar tasks, don't save money and get the best available at the moment (i.e. 58xx or 59xx CPU with 16-32GB DDR4 ram).

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom