CPU/Mobo going bad, time for new build

Dblkk

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For the past several months, my cpu has been limited to 4 cores and 1.3ghz roughly. Only way to fix is add voltage, which fixes the problems. I have custom cooling, so overheating isn't an issue, and voltage is still below my 4.8ghz O.C. I used to run a year or two ago.

So, realizing CPU is probably on its last leg, motherboard might as well. Reguardless of motherboard, I'm not going to buy back into extremely old tech, so going Intel this time.

I do a mixture of medium to heavy duty stuff most days. When at work I also remote into my pc. Work includes multiple vm's (1-4) at a time, mainly video editing mixture of 1080p and 4k(adobe/vegas and multiple instances of whichever program using at the time), I do some gaming, a lot of video converting, photo editing (raw). Plus a bunch of screen recording and others.

Been thinking of going i7 5820k I believe it is (Haswell E 6 core), probably Asus deluxe or similar motherboard (maybe rampage extreme if someone can make a case for it).

Still going to use other components.

DDR4 quad channel and pcie nvme would be nice, as well as dual Ethernet, good audio (controller built in would be nice), and decent raid controller. I have a Qnap 6bay nas that's less than a year old for main stuff, but fly through HHD's pretty quick so like raid 1 with minor performance loss.

That's about all I can think of. If anyone has any thoughts? perhaps dual xeon I though, but the imbedded instructions set on the i7's I feel would makes a better argument against that.
 
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5820K will be a solid choice. Great value for money and has been confirmed to be easily OCed to 4GHz to match stock Skylake performance.

You can try Xeon if you feel like a walk on the wild side. As a comparison just remember; i7 was built for high end consumers, Xeons were built for servers and businesses. i7 has a lot of subtle features that really help enhance normal operation, whereas Xeons are great speed, but that's it. That's without considering motherboard differences (though manufacturers are now starting to make consumer Xeon boards).

If you need it RIGHT DANGIT NOW: I'd personally go with an i7 5820K.

The only thing I would consider if I were you if you can bare to wait, would be the AMD Zen line coming out this year. If...

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5820K will be a solid choice. Great value for money and has been confirmed to be easily OCed to 4GHz to match stock Skylake performance.

You can try Xeon if you feel like a walk on the wild side. As a comparison just remember; i7 was built for high end consumers, Xeons were built for servers and businesses. i7 has a lot of subtle features that really help enhance normal operation, whereas Xeons are great speed, but that's it. That's without considering motherboard differences (though manufacturers are now starting to make consumer Xeon boards).

If you need it RIGHT DANGIT NOW: I'd personally go with an i7 5820K.

The only thing I would consider if I were you if you can bare to wait, would be the AMD Zen line coming out this year. If you can hold off, you very well may be able to pick up an 8 core of equivalent/better performance for much better cost! And let's be honest... AMD need all the support they can get after loosing all of their marketshare to Intel over the past few years. A monopoly doesn't do us consumers any good :/
 
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