i7 CPU Upgrade question.

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

I have an upgrade plan that will let me upgrade to newer parts and I will only have to pay the difference of what I paid for the parts I have...

Currently I have an i7 5820k and I am wondering what type of difference will it be if I get the i7 6800k, or the 6850k...Or if I really spring the extra cash for the 6900k...

I will be doing gaming as well as video editing. I am assuming it is only worth it to upgrade if I got the 6900k...will the extra cores help with video work? And if so by how much?

The other parts I will be upgrading are my 2 980s to 2 1080s.

Also my mobo is Asus Rampage Extreme V X99... Will that fit the other chips? I do have the warranty on the mobo as well if anyone thinks I should also upgrade that.

thanks.

CryoWolf · Aug 28, 2016

if you're going to upgrade you want a decent upgrade, i would see no point in going from six core to six core, i would get the 8 core or 10

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

Someone at micro center said the Haswell are a lot faster than the Broadwell. Even though its the same cores. Is that BS?

CryoWolf · Aug 28, 2016

Vodoochild81 :

I only think that applies to the i7 5775 C and the i5.

k1114 · Aug 28, 2016

Must have been trying to sell and also backwards, broadwell is newer and faster. 5-10%, it's similar to other gens and no it's not to just mainstream. It's the same architecture after all. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-broadwell-e-6950x-6900k-6850k-6800k,4587.html

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

Even with my upgrade plan I would be spending like 600 dollars plus an installation fee to upgrade to the 6900k. Would that even be worth it? What type of difference would I be noticing? If not that much, maybe I should just set that money aside for when I need to rebuild in a couple years when 600 dollars would probably buy me a better chip then.

If I just upgrade the video cards I wont have to pay any fee because I can do that. I installed video cards on my old mac pro and it shouldn't be any different...plus paying the extra like 150 bucks to upgrade to the 1080s will be a much bigger difference than the 5820k to any similar priced chip.

CryoWolf · Aug 28, 2016

The z97 broad well chips are awful overclockers, struggle past 4ghz.

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

k1114 :

Yes...I am sorry it was reversed. My fault. He said the new Broadwell i7 chips will be "a lot" faster than my Haswell i7... He claimed the i5 Broadwell would be faster than my i7 5820k.

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

Would a 5-10 percent difference even be noticeable?

lfkfkfkffs · Aug 28, 2016

I currently use the 5960x and I have 0 plans on upgrading to the newer chips because it just isn't worth it. Even in your case with the 5820k, it just isn't worth it. But if you have the money I guess the 6900k would be a good upgrade for the extra cores.

k1114 · Aug 28, 2016

It's not worth it unless you upgrade to something with more cores. A 4 core broadwell beating a 6 core haswell? Ya he's trying to sell you nonsense.

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

Thanks guy, but if I pay the extra 600 dollars to get the 8 core 6900K or even a grand on the new 10 core chip then what type of extra performance difference are we exactly talking about. Would it just be smarter to just do the graphic card upgrade and then in a few years buy a whole new system?

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

Oh and to further clarify I do video editing. I would like to be prepared for a lot of real time 4k editing and some motion graphics work. Not really any 3D stuff. I believe processor is key when it comes to 3D work and editing is all video cards...Not sure if that is correct.

k1114 · Aug 28, 2016

A lot of those are gpu accelerated but it's going to depend more on what software to confirm. 30% faster or so with an 8 core. Some software scale better than others.

Vodoochild81 · Aug 28, 2016

cool. Thanks. The overall system will be 30 percent faster as well? What about with gaming? Wouldn't it be no different since they only use 4 cores?

lfkfkfkffs · Aug 29, 2016

I would almost just get a xeon

k1114 · Aug 29, 2016

Xeon is simply a label and doesn't mean it's better. For different budgets, there are some i7 that offer a better value, and others xeon. The 30% was for multithreaded tasks. As far as overall, you could see none at all because different tasks would use different resources. For example gaming would have no benefit and more cores may mean lower speed and that's less performance. Games are not just 4 cores, many multiplayer are 8 and more threads because online player location tracking among other tasks are cpu based.

Modeling in 3d or even the viewports in certain video editing software could be single threaded and show no difference as that is largely gpu related. Then I could even go into different filters, effects, video editing taks or transforming, animation and other motion graphics tasks that are mutlithreaded but don't scale well after 4 cores. Or in another software can use over 20 cores well so software is important. Many times in content creation, all those cores are going to be used and optimized well during rendering and final output. Even then it may not be because software could be a gpu only renderer. That's also the biggest time taker and where the extra performance makes the biggest difference. I can say general stuff but there is no clear answer for your situation without knowing the software.

theonerm2 · Aug 29, 2016

CryoWolf :

Yeah but they are pretty great for gaming due to the large L4 cache. Despite the 3.3GHz clock look at this...

It's pretty good for gaming. It either beats or ties the Core i7 6700K in every single gaming test in that review. It's especially good for iGPU gaming as well. I think that large L4 cache does better than a good overclock would. Most of the Broadwell 5775c's get to 4.0GHz or 4.2GHz but some struggle with 3.8GHz.

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