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Thursday, July 21, 2011
A week in the Life & Giveaway
Rebecca said...
This looks lovely!! You did a fantastic job! I don't even remember how I found your blog - I've been following for a while now. I think you are doing a great job, and I wouldn't change a thing! :) Thank you for the chance!!
After much thought, I decided to follow Ali Edwards week in the life project. I'm adding my own tweaks here and there. First, I'm only going to focus on the weekdays M-F. I may change my mind.... second, I'm keeping it very simple. I plan to only use 4 pictures per day. This may be difficult & third, I'm going to wait til I have all the pictures at the end of the week to put the album together. I think. tehehe
Anyway, I usually get bored with projects if I don't have a good foundation. SO, I decided to put the album together minus the details. Here is my cover:
***GIVEAWAY**** If you want a chance to win these printables (6 sets in a PDF). Please leave me a comment. tell me how you found this blog, or any suggestions for the blog are welcome. Thanks!!
41 comments:
- mcscraps5 said...
Love it!! I saw the teaser pic on Twitter and Facebook. Was hoping you'd post more and here you are!! This looks great. Can't wait to see the finished album.
- July 21, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- Shirley said...
Nice - looking forward to the completed album! I'm also planning on doing Week in the life, but not necessarily committing to the album piece, probably just the blogging piece that I can later use to scrapbook.
- July 21, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Samantha Sibbet said...
I would love a chance to win! i have known about you for awhile! Cute album and I can't wait to see more. I would use thse on a project life type of album that I just started.
- July 21, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- jendcnguyen said...
That's awesome! I have been following you for awhile. You are super talented! I love how you're trying to stick to a game plan. I'm still figuring mine out but I definitely will be doing the Week in the Life project. So excited! =)
- July 21, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Renee said...
I would love to win some freebie downloads from you! I am a fan of yours on facebook and saw the link you posted. I'm just getting back into paper scrapping (still was a cardmaker, just went digi for scrapping) I have been hooked on making mini albums, so this is right up my alley currently!
- July 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- sharon g said...
At some point recently another blog asked people to LIKE you on FB, so that's how I found you.
- July 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- Dawn Wagner said...
This is beautiful! I love the simplicity. Can't remember how I found you - I've been loving your blog for a while now! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
- July 21, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Laurel said...
I love it! I first found your store through Jana Eubanks then I found and started following your blog.
- July 21, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Renee said...
This is awesome, Veronica!! I love your album! Oh, I found your blog as I am following you on twitter. 'So glad that I am. Thanks for the chance to win these goodies!!
- July 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM
- Neha Jain said...
hmm..very simple but eye catching :)
- July 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM
- Katie said...
Wow - love your album and the tags! I've been reading your blog for a while now - I think maybe I came over from Ali Edwards if you were mentioned there? Would love to see more mini books and ideas for using your tags on here :-)
- July 21, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Love the idea about cutting down the baseball card pages.
- July 21, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- monica said...
molto belli da utilizzare nelle pagine scrap
- July 21, 2011 at 11:27 PM
- Amy Coose said...
Oh, thanks for the chance to win! I found your blog through Megan Klauer...and I've been a follower ever since.
- July 22, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Monica said...
I've decided to do Week in the Life too. I have no idea how I found your blog, but I've had it in my blog list for awhile. Love your album! So cute! Thanks for the chance to win!
- July 22, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- Michelle*G said...
I found your blog from your products...lots of recommendations everywhere on the web. So happy that I did too! I love your foundation for the album and how simple you're keeping it!
- July 22, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- EileenMV said...
Very cute album! I think I started following your blog via Megan K - but, I"m not sure! Anyway, love your blog!!!
- July 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Alisha Berkey said...
I would love to win a set or buy a set!!! If I don't win were can i buy a set!!
- July 22, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Colleen { HappyLittleArt } said...
Super Fun!!! Love the ideas!! I've been following you on Facebook but have no idea how I found you...but have been glad I did!
- July 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Rebecca said...
This looks lovely!! You did a fantastic job! I don't even remember how I found your blog - I've been following for a while now. I think you are doing a great job, and I wouldn't change a thing! :) Thank you for the chance!!
- July 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- jengd said...
These look great- love what you have here! I wish I could tell you how I found you but I don't remember. It was definitely a link from another blog ... Tip Junkie or Somewhat Simple come to mind...
- July 22, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Jen said...
I found you via SC! LOVE your mini!
- July 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Heidi Y said...
Love this set! Great job on your album...
- July 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Sophisticated Glamorina said...
Love your album! Found your blog through Alley Edwards blog. I;m your newbie follower. ;D
- July 22, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Candace H said...
I've shopped with you before and am a FB fan, too! Love your album and printables!
- July 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Daniela said...
I love the tags!!!! I haven't decided if I will be doing it this time around. I always want to, but I never finish :( I will see.
I have your blog in my google reader :) I have you on FB and follow you on twitter :)
- July 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM
I found you through Ali Edwards' blog...and immediately purchased several things to use for my Week in the Life" album. Now I think I "need" to place another order!!! Also love how you are doing your album and it gave me some ideas of how to set mine up!
- July 22, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Kimberly said...
So beautiful. I love what you did with your album ... makes me want to get started on mine right now!
- July 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- mommy2alex said...
I love your album, looks very do-able! I want to play along too this year and I think that maybe M-F would be a better idea for me as well, but we'll see. I like your clear pages, I was just given some. Thanks for the inspiration!
- July 22, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- Deborahk said...
I got here through a link......but don't remember which one. I am just glad I did find you! Thank you for the chance to win.
- July 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM
- mandyb said...
wahooo i love your album!!!
thanks for a fun giveaway too..followed you from the SC message board xxx
- July 22, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Kim M said...
I found it about a year or so back through Michelle Lanning's blog, have been checking it out ever since.
- July 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Colleen said...
Hi, I have been following you for awhile and love the album cover that you have created. I also want to follow along with the Week in the life of, have wanted to for awhile now, but never have. Hopefully next week. I would love to know how you put 2 pictures together to create a 4x6 picture. Would love to work with the smaller size but hate getting two copies of them.
- July 22, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- Stacy said...
I saw your post at Studio Calico. I love your printables! Very cool!
- July 22, 2011 at 5:29 PM
- sts2000 said...
I can't remember exactly - but you are in my Google Reader. Thanks for the opportunity.
- July 22, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Katherine said...
I've been a reader for a long time via Google Reader and I love the clean lines and fresh look of your WitL album! I haven't ever participated but I love looking at everyone's pictures of their albums when the week is over. Maybe this time I'll play along....
- July 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- Michelle @ you are glowing! said...
So fun! I just found your blog on Pinterest!! I'm just starting on a life journal too!
- July 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- Kim said...
I was just about to buy the set....they are killer! I even went out last night and bought more ink for my printer 'cuz they are so stinkin' cute! I found your blog through pinterest....but I've had your web-site bookmarked for about a week or so.
- July 23, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- nailgirl said...
hey! i found your blog through studio calico message boards! i absolutely love your tags and just downloaded them for my week in the life project! and i love your book already!!
- July 24, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- My Creative Life said...
Found your blog from SC where you posted about a week in the life. :) I am also doing a 8x8 and planned on cutting out baseball page protectors. Great minds think alike!
- July 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM
- Jovi said...
i bought some grandma doilies and vintage scallop circles from Ujjwal (India) and then came to check the site and see if i could find ideas on how to use them.... looking around.... nice kiddo pics.. have a grt day!!!
- July 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM


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The Intel Haswell-E CPU Review: Core i7-5960X, i7-5930K and i7-5820K Testedby Ian Cutress on 8/29/2014 12:00 PM EST
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klmccaughey - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI'll be sticking with my 2500k for at least another year then ;) Reply
osamabinrobot - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linksame. a little disappointed but i suppose my wallet and new baby will benefit. Reply
maroon1 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkHaswell-E is massive improvement over 2500K in multi-threaded workloads. Even cheapest model i7 5820K is going to be about twice as fast as your 2500K Reply
danielkza - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkExcept for gaming; Reply
osamabinrobot - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkYUP Reply
raad11 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkStill running my 2500K @ 4.5GHz on air 3 years later for games without a problem. Reply
pt2501 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link2500K @ 4.6 Ghz. Nothing to see here for gaming. Move along. Reply
AndreiM - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkSo true, same here, 2500k @ 4.7 GHz. It's like they don't want my money :D Reply
swing848 - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkSandy Bridge overclockers forget the better hardware performance and added hardware for newer generation CPU/motherboard combinations.
As to gaming, I was FINALLY able to have very good performance with Microsoft Flight Simulator [that ate high end systems alive] with Ivy Bridge i5 3570K @ 4.2GHz, Gigabyte Z77X-D3H, and an AMD R9 290. NOTE: My CPU can do 4.7GHz and struggles with 4.8GHz on air, however, I do not like the temps, I need water cooling for 4.7GHz and higher. Reply
zinok2001 - Wednesday, November 05, 2014 - linkHi, i'm upgrading my system. I bought an asus sabertoothx79 mobo. Should i go for the 4820K or 4920K for FSX and P3D ? Or should i go for the 5820K ? Would there be any dif in performance ?
Thx, Marc; Reply
Ninjawithagun - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - linkYou can't use the 5820K with an X79 motherboard. Reply
dawie1976 - Friday, September 12, 2014 - linkYip,same here.I7 4790 @ 8.8 GHz.I am still good Reply
myT4U - Friday, March 04, 2016 - linkTell us about your system and setup please Reply
damianrobertjones - Sunday, March 08, 2015 - linkYep 2500k @ 4.8 Ghz. Not really Just found it funny that each new post beat the previous by 100Mhz Reply
Stas - Friday, April 10, 2015 - linkAgreed, doing quite well with 2500k @ 4.8Ghz Reply
leminlyme - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkI don't mean to be a prick, but you're not going to see anything in gaming performance even if intel releases a 32core 200$ 3.0 ghz processor. Because in the end, it's about the developers usage of the processors, and not many game developers want to ostracize the entry level market by making CPU heavy games. Now, when Star Citizen launches, there'll be a bit of a rush for 'better' but not 'best' cpus, and that appears to be virtually the only example worth bringing up in the next forseeable 3years of gaming (atleast so far in the public eye..) All you can do is boost up single core performance to a certain point before there's just no more benefits, upgrading your cpu for gaming is like upgrading your plumbing for pissing. Yeah it still goes through and could see marginal benefits, but you know damn well pissin' ain't shit ;D Reply
awakenedmachine - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkNot prick-like at all, I appreciate the comment. I'm an old dude who hasn't "gamed" for years and I'm just now getting back into it, trying to figure out what will work and for what price. Your insight is very helpful! Sounds like a lot of guys are using OC'ed i5 cores, good to know. Reply
swing848 - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkCrank up World of Tanks video settings to maximum and watch your FPS sink like a rock. A high end system is needed to run this title at max settings, that only recently began to use 2 CPU cores and 2 GPUs. No one using a mid-range Intel CPU and upper-midrange single GPU will see 60fps with the video cranked to maximum. Reply
Midwayman - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - linkThat game is just horribly coded. There is no excuse for the amount of CPU and GPU it needs. Reply
swing848 - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkCheck out my post above regarding MS-FSX.
And, yes, I have installed Star Citizen some time ago [alpha release FINALLY allowed some play], and my system has done well with it, even in alpha. Reply
designerfx - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkGaming was the first area I wanted to look at, so seeing all the comments and review messages saying this is a skip for gaming is great, actually. It means prices will probably drop soon for the gaming parts, hopefully. Reply
SirMaster - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkWell there is a LOT more to computing than gaming so this is exciting for a lot of us. Reply
Daniel Egger - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkNot at all, if you're into computing then you'll more than likely buy Xeon anyway. Reply
gilles3000 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkNot really, xeons can't be overclocked, even the new 6C 5820K will give you a lot more bang for your buck. Xeons are great for Professional or Enterprise solutions(And are very expensive because of that). But if you need 6-8C and no ECC ram, I'd take a Haswell-E I7 over a Haswell-EP Xeon anyday. Reply
Samus - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkECC RAM is pretty nice though, even on a prosumer PC. Reply
TelstarTOS - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI agree, most xeons are too expensive for all but the most multithreaded jobs. Reply
jbruner007 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkactually we overclock Xeon's all the time... see Supermicro Hyperspeed. we OC all the E5-2600v2 we use - 2650v2, 2670v2 and 2690v2. Reply
willis936 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkOne could put together a HEDT system with OC headroom, tons of RAM, and a fancy GPU for the price of an entry level xeon processor, let alone full on server. Xeons aren't for people, they're for companies. HEDT are for prosumers and I think I'm right in saying a lot of people reading anandtech fall into that category. Reply
Spirall - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkExactly. This is the platform for professional computing home stuff. Reply
actionjksn - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkUnless you require ECC memory and-or the ability to install two processors on one motherboard, the Xeon processors are a waste of money. You can also do a modest overclock on the i7 Extreme edition and get some really good performance compared to an 8 core Xeon that costs probably twice as much and can not be overclocked.
And if you're getting ECC memory that you don't really need, it costs a lot more too. The money you save on the i7 Extreme over the Xeon can also be put towards extra big and or fast solid state storage. The people who do need ECC ram or dual processors tend to know it and they are not even looking at these i7's anyway. There are a lot of things that a lot of power users do that do not need or benefit from ECC ram. That's who these processors are marketed to. Reply
jabber - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkAt the end of the day the Xeons are just bug fixed lower power i7 chips anyway. But one way that Xeons come into their own is on the second hand market. I'll be picking up ex. corp dual CPU Xeon workstations for peanuts compared to the domestic versions. I have a 7 year old 8 core Xeon workstation that still WPrimes in 7 seconds. Not bad for a $100 box. Reply
mapesdhs - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link
All correct, though it concerns me that the max RAM of X99 may only be 64GB much
of the time. After adding two cores and moving up to working with 4K material, that's
not going to be enough.
Performance-wise, good for a new build, but sadly probably not good enough as an
upgrade over a 3930K @ 4.7+ or anything that follows. The better storage options
might be an incentive for some to upgrade though, depending on their RAID setups
& suchlike.
Ian. Reply
leminlyme - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkThey are applicable to different crowds, and computing doesn't exclude gaming, whereas Xeons to a degree do (Though I'm sure for most of them you'd be fine, I for one like those PCI lanes, as well as the per core performance on the desktop processors is just typically better. Plus form factor and all that. These fill a glorious niche that I am indeed excited about. They're pretty damn cheap for their quality too. I guess the RAM totally circumvents that benefit though. Reply
Mithan - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI am into gaming and nothing is worth upgrading over the 2500 if you have it. For you it's different of course :) Reply
AnnihilatorX - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI am thinking of upgrading my 2500 k actually, because I got a dud CPU which won't even overclock to 4.2Ghz Reply
mindbomb - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThat's the fault of the software. Seems unfair to blame the chip for that. DX12 should change that anyway. Reply
CaedenV - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkHow exactly will DX12 help? DX12 is good for helping wimpy hardware move from horrible settings to acceptable settings, but for the high end it will not help much at all. Beyond that, it helps the GPU be more efficient and will have little effect on the CPU. Even if it did help the CPU at all, take a look at those charts; pretty much every mid to high end CPU on the market can already saturate a GPU. If the GPU is already the bottle neck then improving the CPU does not help at all. Reply
iLovefloss - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkDirectX12 promises to make more efficient use of multicore processors. AnandTech has already did a piece on Intel's demonstration of its benefit. Reply
bwat47 - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkI'm sick of hearing this nonsense. Even with reasonably high end hardware mantle and DX12 can help minimum framerates and framerate consistency considerably. I have a 2500k and a 280x, and when I use mantle I get a big boost in minimum framerate. Reply
The3D - Friday, September 12, 2014 - linkGiven the yet to be released directx 12 and the overall tendency to have less cpu intensive graphics directives ( mantle) i guess the days in which we needed extra powerful cpus to run graphic intensive games are coming to an end. Reply
schmak01 - Friday, January 16, 2015 - linkI thought the same thing, but it probably depends on the game. I got the MSI XPower AC X99s Board with the 5930K. when I was running a 2500k at 4.5 Ghz for years. I play a lot of FFXIV which is DX9 and therefore CPU strapped. I noticed a marked improvement. Its a multithreaded game so that helps, but on my trusty sandy bridge I was always at 100% across all cores while playing, now its rarely above 15-20%. Areas where Ethernet traffic picks up, high population areas, show a much better improvement as I am not running out of CPU cycles. Lastly Turnbased games like GalCivIII and Civ5 on absurdly large Maps/AI's run much faster. Loading an old game on Civ5 where turns took 3-4 minutes now take a few seconds.
There is also the fact that when Broadwell-E's are out in 2016 they will still use the LGA 2011-3 socket and X99 chipset, I figured it was a good time to upgrade for 'future proofing' my box for a while. Reply
Flunk - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkRight, for rendering, video encoding, server applications and only if there is no GPU-accelerated version for the task at hand. You have to admit that embarrassingly parallel workloads are both rare and quite often better off handed to the GPU.
Also, you're neglecting overclocking. If you take that into account the lowest-end Haswell-E only has a 20%-30% advantage. Also, I'm not sure about you but I normally use Xeons for my servers.
Haswell-E has a point, but it's extremely niche and dare I say extremely overpriced? 8-core at $600 would be a little more palatable to me, especially with these low clocks and uninspiring single thread performance. Reply
wireframed - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThe 5960X is half the price of the equivalent Xeon. Sure if you're budget is unlimited, 1k or 2k per CPU doesn't matter, but how often is that realistic.
For content creation, CPU performance is still very much relevant. GPU acceleration just isn't up to scratch in many areas. Too little RAM, not flexible enough. When you're waiting days or weeks for renderings, every bit counts. Reply
CaedenV - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkimprovements are relative. For gaming... not so much. Most games still only use 4 core (or less!), and rely more on the clock rate and GPU rather than specific CPU technologies and advantages, so having a newer 8 core really does not bring much more to the table to most games compared to an older quad core... and those sandy bridge parts could OC to the moon, even my locked part hits 4.2GHz without throwing a fuss.
Even for things like HD video editing, basic 3D content creation, etc. you are looking at minor improvements that are never going to be noticed by the end user. Move into 4K editing, and larger 3D work... then you see substantial improvements moving to these new chips... but then again you should probably be on a dual Xeon setup for those kinds of high-end workloads. These chips are for gamers with too much money (a class that I hope to join some day!), or professionals trying to pinch a few pennies... they simply are not practical in their benefits for either camp. Reply
ArtShapiro - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSame here. I think the cost of operation is of concern in these days of escalating energy rates. I run the 2500K in a little Antec MITX case with something like a 150 or 160 watt inbuilt power supply. It idles in the low 20s, if I recall, meaning I can leave it on all day without California needing to build more nuclear power plants. I can only cringe at talk about 1500 watt power supplies. Reply
wireframed - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkPerformance per watt is what's important. If the CPU is twice as fast, and uses 60% more power! you still come out ahead. The idle draw is actually pretty good for the Haswell-E. It's only when you start overclocking it gets really crazy.
DDR4's main selling point is reduced power draw, so that helps as well. Reply
actionjksn - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkIf you have a 1500 watt power supply, it doesn't mean you're actually using 1500 watts. It will only put out what the system demands at whatever workload you're putting on it at the time. If you replaced your system with one of these big new ones, your monthly bill might go up 5 to 8 dollars per month if you are a pretty heavy user, and you're really hammering that system frequently and hard. The only exception I can think of would be if you were mining Bit Coin 24/7 or something like that. Even then it would be your graphics cards that would be hitting you hard on the electric bill. It may be a little higher in California since you guys get overcharged for pretty much everything. Reply
Flashman024 - Friday, May 08, 2015 - linkJust out of curiosity, what do you pay for electricity? Because I pay less here than I did when I lived in IA. We're at .10 KWh to .16 KWh (Tier 3 based on 1000KWh+ usage). Heard these tired blanket statements before we moved, and were pleased to find out it's mostly BS. Reply
CaedenV - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkAgreed, my little i7 2600 still keeps up just fine, and I am not really tempted to upgrade my system yet... maybe a new GPU, but the system itself is still just fine.
Let's see some more focus on better single-thread performance, refine DDR4 support a bit more, give PCIe HDDs a chance to catch on, then I will look into upgrading. Still, this is the first real step forward on the CPU side that we have seen in a good long time, and I am really excited to finally see some Intel consumer 8 core parts hit the market. Reply
twtech - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThe overclocking results are definitely a positive relative to the last generation, but really the pull-the-trigger point for me would have been the 5930K coming with 8 cores.
It looks like I'll be waiting another generation as well. I'm currently running an OCed 3930K, and given the cost of this platform, the performance increase for the cost just doesn't justify the upgrade. Reply
mapesdhs - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link
I agree; I'd been hoping for a midrange 8-core of some kind, but Intel's once
again shoved up the peformance/price scale purely because it can. Shame.
And IMO the PCIe provision chop with the 5820K is in the wrong direction;
by that I mean the 5820K should have 40, the 5930K have 60 and the 5960X
given 80, something like that. Supporting 4-way native x16 with enough left
over for good storage at the top-end of the CPU range would make its price
much more tolerable, but now the price difference is really just the +2 cores,
at a time when the mid-range chip ought to be an 8-core anyway (remember
the 3930K was an 8-core but with 2 cores disabled, ie. Intel could have
released a consumer 8c a long time ago).
PS. twtech, I've benched oc'd 3930Ks quite a lot. What do you use your system for? Reply
garadante - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSheesh... Looking at these performance reviews, I'm questioning whether or not I'll even go for an -E series when I invest in a full upgrade from my 2500k in 2-3 years. In many scenarios the 4790k is at the top or near the top of the rankings due to the higher clock speeds stock/overclocked, yet the platform is much cheaper. Perhaps the 4790k equivalent 2-3 generations from now will be 6-cores, or the IPC will start going up if Intel focuses on it (I hope, but unlikely...). Otherwise these systems are just too expensive for little gain except in CPU bound workloads. Reply
l_d_allan - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linksame, with 2600k Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSame, I'll stick with my Core i7 3930K which happily hits 5ghz.
Years ago I never would have thought a CPU released 3 years prior to the latest and greatest would still be able to compete/beat the top chips in most scenarios.
Hopefully Haswell-E's successor gives me the upgrade itch and maybe DDR4 drops in price by then, by then my platform would be 4+ years old.
Intel sure does make it hard to justify plonking down a few grand though. :( Reply
Mithan - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI am waiting for skylake next year. Reply
Samus - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linki7-920 at 3.5GHz/X58 here (first DDR3 chipset)
I was going to hold out for the first DDR4 chipset to replace this thing, but...maybe I'll wait for DDR5. Even 5 years later, my first-gen i7 is faster than like 90% of the desktop CPU's out there TODAY. Intel really outdid themselves with Nehalem. Reply
xrror - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkAnyone still on 1366, I'd recommend searching around on ebay for xeon X5650 's that are getting dumped for less than $100. If your motherboard is alright with a 191BCK guess what - 4.2Ghz Gulftown with full 6(12) cores. Yeay =) Reply
DPOverLord - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkI upgraded from a i7 930 to a xeon 5650. Its at 4.6ghz with sli titans in surround (4800 x 2560). Based on this x99 seems to be a worthwhile upgrade albeit an expensive one. Anyone else in my boat? Reply
getho - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkSo is it worth upgrading an i7 @3.2 GHz to the x5650? My bottleneck is single thread performance (light room likes fast chips). Reply
xaml - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - linkI might give this a try once I stuff that Studio XPS 435 MT motherboard sporting an i7 940 into a Prodigy M. I actually had a look at compatible new processors, but they were too expensive. I am not sure if I am going to trust a used offer though. Reply
wallysb01 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkThis really only makes sense if you don't have "real" work to do on your computer. Or you only have work that utilizes 1-2 cores. Look at how these bench marks stack up against the 5960: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/47?vs=1317. For single threaded stuff its 20-30% faster and for multithreaded stuff its around 3x faster.
That's HUGE if you're actually putting your computer through a tough workload. Instead of something finishing in month it finishes in 10 days? You don't think that's worth it?
And with the i7-920, are you on a motherboard with SATA III, or do you have PCIe expansion for SATA III. For those I/O limited, SATA III with a couple of striped SSDs is a tremendous improvement. Over what was around 5 years ago. Reply
TonyZ - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkSame here, run my 2500K at 4.2 on air and I just haven't seen any reason to upgrade as of yet and I've been running it for near 3 years now.... We need something new and groundbreaking... Reply
chinmi - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkcame here to say that :)
it may be 10% slower, but it's 90% cheaper. Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkThese are different classes of hardware even for considerab=bly different purposes.
It's like reading the review of Escalade and saying then, "I'll stick to my Focus then" :) Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkI meant, comparison of 2500K and Haswell-E is like comparing Escalade and Focus.
Crazy forum engine; AT really should look around, notice that better forums are on the web for 10+ years, and ask some web developer to make a normal forum (and not like a student alpha version course project). It's a bit of a shame for such a good website. Sorry for abruptness, but this is indeed the case. Reply
Stas - Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - linkLikewise. 4.4Ghz is plenty. Lived through video card upgrades and still GPU limited with HD7950 o/c. Reply
Stas - Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - link*3 video card upgrades Reply
q2klepto - Monday, September 08, 2014 - linkYup - thankfully new games are almost completely limited by the GPU at high resolutions/quality (1440p/High+). I think my i7 firstname.lastname@example.com and R9 290X can last another year at least, and i can afford to put it underwater instead of upgrading.
For normal desktop use, an SSD and 8GB+ of ram will burn thru everything without a prob Reply
imaheadcase - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkCorrection? I think you mean "also featuring 6 cores"
"The entry level model is a slightly slower i7-5820K, also featuring eight cores and DDR4-2133 support. The main difference here is that it only has 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes. When I first read this, I was relatively shocked, but if you consider it from a point of segmentation in the product stack, it makes sense." Reply
Ian Cutress - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkCorrected :) Reply
MrBungle123 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkIs there anything but 'edge case' justification for upgrading any more? PCs used to be exciting because things were always changing, this is just getting boring. Reply
edzieba - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkVR. The frame rendering time requirements are pretty stringent. This is more on the GPU than the CPU for graphics, but you want to try and keep physics tics at a good rate to prevent objects jumping around the world. Reply
tech6 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkEven the 'edge case' is not longer a slam dunk as most workstation workloads like CAD do very well on the 4960X.
The only real cases are heavy scientific number crunching, animation rendering and cracking password hashes by brute force. Reply
MrBungle123 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkIt used to be that if you were 2 generations behind your system was so slow and irrelevant that you just couldn't run modern software at anything approaching an acceptable level. Now we have a situation where ancient systems on X58 (circa 2008) are still close enough in performance to the extreme high end in 2014 to not only be in this review but also fit somewhere into the top half of the product stack of modern Haswell based hardware.
If you compare a top of the line Nehalem chip to its equivalent from 6 years prior (a Northwood core P4 from 2002) it would make a mockery of 8 of them at the same time. This article is saying a 31% jump from Nehalem to Haswell-E -- that kind of performance increase (as a percentage) would have amounted to 2 or 3 months worth of clock speed bumps at any other time in the history of PCs. Reply
wireframed - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSomewhat true, but consider that you get 30% IPC increase, 25-30% frequency increase and a 50% core-count increase, and it adds up to around a 100% increase in performance.
Granted, 100-110% over 6 years is hardly impressive compared to earlier, but there isn't that much low-hanging fruit.
Also, the mainstream which drives revenue is, as you point out, largely content. They're looking at adding devices like tablets and consoles, instead of upgrading their computers. That probably plays into the amount of R&D Intel decides to spend on the HEDT platform. Reply
Kain_niaK - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkExactly exactly exactly! I am still on X58 with a i7 990x. I don't play much games any more but even to play the newest games ... I do not need to upgrade my CPU and have not needed to upgrade my CPU since 2010. And even my i7 975x or a i7 920 from 2008 would still be more then fast enough. Then music. I use my system mainl as Digital Audio Workstation. Most of my plugins and music applications support multithreading. I cannot realistically ad so much stuff to a project that it maxes out the CPU. And rendering time? Who cares, most of my renders are done before I am done playing chess on the toilet anyway. Then overclocking. The i7 920 and anything on X58 was great. After that ... the fun and the excitement kind of went away and has never come back. What's the SUPERPI MOD record these days? I have not heard about any significant record breaking for a long time. Back in 2008, 2009,2010 I was hearing news about famous new overclock records. After that, it stopped. Let's face it. We hit a clock limit and for a breaktrought in singlethreated speed ... it's just not gonna happen until some genius designs a totally different system. Probably not using electricity but light. But that's like 20 years away because you don't just start over. All we have been doing is improving old technology not inventing something completely new. We are hitting the limits of nature ... so all the geeks and the nerds will just have to way at least another 10 years before we get to the exciting stuff again. Reply
MrBungle123 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkAt this rate 10 years from now any Haswell i7 is still going to be within spitting distance of whatever the best is. lol
If you wan't Skylake performance today OC your Haswell by 250MHz, Ivy Bridge by 400MHz, or Sandy Bridge by 600MHz. Reply
Laststop311 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkit wont be the cpu performance difference that makes u upgrade it will be the new features. Skylake will have pci-e 4.0 and usb 3.1 and then chipsets after that will add more new things faster storage standards and who knows what else.
I was already in this position. The speed of the i7-980x was still rly good. Got mine oc'd to 4261mhz. But guess what on x58 you get not pci-e3.0 no sata 3 no usb 3.0. These features have become very standard. You also get no sata express or pci-e ultra m2 which will soon be commonplace as well as no quad channel memory and no ddr4. All the missing features made me upgrade, not the speed. Similar situations in the future will cause people to upgrade every 4-6 years. Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkYou can still plug the PCIe USB 3.0 extension board there and get at least 2 USB 3.0 ports on the back of the case, to somewhat mitigate the age of the platform.
But, with PCIe 2.0 and SATA 2, one is stuck, indeed. Reply
actionjksn - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkNehalm was great, but the last big bump was really Sandy Bridge. After that, not so much. This is actually a big concern for the processor makers. The technology and the silicon itself is reaching its limits as far as making significant gains on the next generations. They were getting big performance gains from just die shrinks alone, but those days are over. And how much more can they shrink them? It's getting harder all the time, they may get to 7nm to 10nm. Reply
wireframed - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI'm guessing you don't do much animation? :) Even though many of my renders only run around 10-20 minutes max, when you do a 30s animation, you can multiply that rendertime by 900... Even for a minute a frame (which is fairly fast), that's still 15 hours.
But I think the main draw for people on X58 like us, is the newer platform. X58 is really low on modern features, it came out at an awkward time. No native USB 3.0, no 6Gbps SATA, no Thunderbolt (which might be relevant in the future), no PCIe 3.0, and no support for the newer standards coming out with Z97.
Also consider DDR4 is going to be the standard going forward, so investing a lot of money in 32-64GB of DDR3, even at the lower prices, just seems like throwing good money after bad. Reply
Kain_niaK - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkYou are right! When I talking about a render, I am talking about exporting a music project to separate wave files (one per track). You can either record while playing it back or you can render it. Most VST plugins have a render mode as well so the end result is sometimes quite different. Not necessarily better, but different. And recording is done in real time, so sometimes a render is a lot faster. Reply
kevith - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkRight on! Reply
bebimbap - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkthe 31% is at the same frequency.
being able to do double the work with the same amount of energy or the same work with 1/2 the energy is a big deal.
imagine if cars could do that... 2x the horsepower but same amount of gas... or the same mileage at 1/2 the gas Reply
Laststop311 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkive been happily on my x58 i7-980x for 4 years and honestly if my chipset wasn't missing so many modern features i wouldn't even upgrade. But the lack of pci-e 3.0 lack of sata 3 lack of usb 3.0 are just becoming a pain in the ass. ur circo 2008 is wrong too i know because i got the i7-980x right when it came out and it was in 2010 not 2008 so that would be 100-110% over 4 years.
I really want an ultra m2 pci-e 3.0 x4 drive as my main os and application drive. Can't wait to pop in a 1TB samsung sm951 ultra m2 drive. Also cant wait for the 16GB DDR4 sticks to start showing up. 8x16GB 128GB of ram, can you say 112GB ram drive and 16GB ram for the system. It's gotta be awesome working on video editing with your entire video in a super fast ram drive. My memory and storage is what's going to boost the performance for me gtom my x58 the cpu will too but not like the ultra m2 ssd with like 1400MB/sec read and 1200MB/sec write Reply
nonoverclock - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI recently went from an i7-950 to a i7 4770. It's made for a solid bump in performance. I notice it particularly in navigating game menus that used to be a little sluggish before. Reply
Railgun - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSold! As I'm still on Gulftown, this is just what the doctor ordered. The i7-970, IMHO, has held its own for four years, at least for my needs. This will be one helluva shot in the arm. Reply
PEJUman - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkwith you on this. I actually sold my gulftown with 48GB last year for the 6xSATA on z87, The x58 + gulftown is one heck of a system. If I don't already have the 4770k, this 5960 or 5820 would be extremely difficult to resist.
I actually tempted to mount the mobo+CPU+intel sink on the wall instead of selling it, it was a piece of computing history. Reply
bebimbap - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkIf i remember the weight of that particular heatsink, you would need a sturdy mount for your wall... thumbtacks do not apply Reply
Laststop311 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link48gb on gulftown thats strange considering gulftown supports 24gb ram. http://ark.intel.com/products/47932
right on intel's page. i sense a fibber. Why lie about what pc u have? Reply
StevoLincolnite - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkYou obviously have never played with an x58 system with it's triple-channel DDR3 set-up.
You *can* actually run 48Gb of Ram, but it's also not guaranteed to actually work, some people managed to win the luck of the draw early on.
Some people who installed 48Gb of memory would only have 32Gb of Ram detected.
Conversely, x58 processors actually have a 36-bit address bus, so theoretically they could support even 64Gb of Ram.
Basically, Intel guarantees up-to 24Gb to function, doesn't mean it cannot handle more. Reply
K_Space - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkAgreed. I do think this justifies the switch from Nehalem 920; however the price of DDR4 is far too prohibitive. Given that fact that Skylake is rumoured to be around the corner ?Q3 2015 (will probably get pushed back); I'm just going to a grab a bargain used X5670 6-core for $120. I have to say, I never thought the 4.1Ghz 24/7 920 would hold for this long.
Multi-GPU and newer PCI-E storage solutions will mean that 40 lanes will matter in a generation or two. Reply
GammaLaser - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkCinebench R15 multithreaded score is "1337", coincidence? I think not. Reply
ochadd - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkAs a gamer it looks like my overclocked 2600k will remain in it's place. Was hoping for more. Reply
maroon1 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkGames are limited by the GPU most of the time. Even if the CPU is 10 times faster, you might not see a big gains in gaming Reply
The_Assimilator - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSo X99 has the same specifications as Z87, just with 4 extra SATA ports that cannot be RAIDed. Warrants a resounding "meh" from me. Intel could have at least increased the number of USB 3.0 ports. Reply
wireframed - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThe Z-platform is the enthusiast platform, this is an entirely different segment. For instance, you'll never get 6 cores on the Z-platform, so the comparison is kinda silly. :) Reply
garadante - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI hope you're wrong with your never statement. If we're still on 4 cores on the Z platform by Montlake or the generation afterwards, I will be very, very disappointed. Intel either needs to aggressively expand core counts to give developers a reason to make software utilizing more threads or push aggressively for increased IPC. Otherwise my 2500k could last a very, very long time. Reply
Makaveli - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkwhy do you guys keep referring to the i7 990x chip as nelahem when its Gulftown? Reply
nonoverclock - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkGood point. I looked it up and Gulftown is a Westmere microarchitecture CPU. Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkRight. Gulftown was the 32 nm shrink of 45 nm Nehalem. However, in that case there was no associated IPC change (except AES addition in Gulftown), so in light-threaded tasks there was no performance difference between the two (except AES), so people often informally confuse the two, despite the fact that Gulftown has two more cores due to the 32 nm instead of 45 nm. Reply
SantaAna12 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkGood timing Anandtech!
I might have missed it, but any variance at 1440? Reply
danjw - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link"Intel has decided to made the lower cost Haswell-E processor ..." I think it should be /made/make. Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkThanks for the catch, edited :) Reply
bernstein - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThanks for this review. It's now clear, this platform is for an extremely narrow target audience, requiring the most computational speed on a single mainboard, requiring 4 RAM channels or 40pcie lanes but be cheaper than xeon e5 yet not need ecc.
i truly wonder what prcatical application there is? i mean it can neither mission critical or scientific stuff becuase that would require ecc... gaming at 8k? (no 4k works fine on a 4790K with two titans) Reply
bombardira - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkvideo editing, 3d rendering, audio/photo work should still benefit from lots of cores. Reply
Kain_niaK - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkYeah until you stop upgrading and build a rendering farm that can split the workload over multiple systems. Then you just keeping buying more of the price/quality stuff. CPU's or GPU's. Reply
Brigaid - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link"Modules should be available from DDR3-2133 to DDR3-3200 at launch, with the higher end of the spectrum being announced by both G.Skill and Corsair."
Page 1. Shouldn't these both say DDR4-? Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkThanks for the catch, edited :) Reply
apexjr - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkIan - How come we didn't see any tests of over clocking with the 6 core 5930k and 5920k? I had just purchased a i7-4790k that isn't even installed yet. I am not just a gamer, I do video and photo work as well and I am constantly CPU limited. The X cpu is way to expensive, so these others particularly the 5920k overclocked might be a perfect sweet spot for a lot of people. Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkWhen I tested the 5930K/5820K, the motherboard BIOSes were still very early alpha builds and did not allow overclocking. If I can get these CPUs in again to test (they had to be sent back), I will do some overclocking results for sure. Reply
jwcalla - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkMight as well wait for them to fix TSX at this point. Reply
iwod - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkHow likely will this be in Mac Pro? Reply
DigitalFreak - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkDoubtful. Apple is using Xeons in the Mac Pro. Reply
hansmuff - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI'll be waiting for two more generations. Maybe something worthwhile comes along to replace my 2600k at 4.4GHz. I'm glad the review shows so clearly where this new chip excels and who should save their money. Reply
Yuriman - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkTypo:
"Modules should be available from DDR3-2133 to DDR3-3200 at launch, with the higher end of the spectrum being announced by both G.Skill and Corsair. See our DDR4 article later this week for more extensive testing." Reply
TelstarTOS - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkGood article but the overclocking comparisons are a bit limited, i.e. 5930K and 5920K overclocking tables are not provided, nor a comparison with older SB/IB cpu @around 4,5ghz which most people still have and are deciding whether to upgrade to a X99 or a Z97 platform.
A more accurate RAM performance comparison is also missing. Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkAt the time I had the 5930K/5820K, I was not in a position to be able to overclock due to early alpha firmware. Due to our newer benchmarking suite, I still need to go back to the early Sandy (non-E) CPUs to retest. Anything you see in Bench with the power listed has been retested at least in part this year, depending on my scheduling. Unfortunately I don't have the space to have this as an ongoing project, it occurs in time with reviews. Reply
name99 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link"For the six core models, the i7-5930K and the i7-5820K, one pair of cores is disabled; the pair which is disabled is not always constant, but will always be a left-to-right pair from the four rows as shown in the image. Unlike the Xeon range where sometimes the additional cache from disabled cores is still available, the L3 cache for these two cores will be disabled also."
Are you sure that these various statements are correct? I'm not doubting you, but I would point out that at Hot Chips 2014 discussing the Xeon IVB server, Intel stated that they'd designed the floorplan to be "choppable".
They gave a diagram that showed a base of fifteen (3x5) CPUs+L3 slices, which chop lines to take off a th3 right-hand 5 CPUs, then to take off one or two of the horizontal pairs (taking the 10 CPus down to 8 and then 6).
Point is:
- the impression they gave is that these reduced CPU counts are not (at least not PRIMARILY) from full dies with disabled (or nonfunctional) cores --- they are manufactured to have smaller area with fewer cores.
- which suggests that versions with fewer cores but larger cache are some sort of anomaly (because the chop cuts out L3 slices along with cores). Perhaps THOSE are the chips that really did have one or two non-functional cores but with still functional L3 slices? Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkAs far as we know, the floorplan for the die for i7 is an 8-core, with the 6-core models being disabled versions rather than wholly new dies.
With the Ivy-E Xeons, there are a number of CPUs that have high L3 per core numbers due to the way the cores are disabled - Intel usually sticks to 3 floor plans or so depending on how their product line is stacked up. This may change with Haswell-E, though the Xeons have not been officially released yet. The Ivy-E floorplans can be found here, where I did a breakdown of L3/core:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7852/intel-xeon-e526... Reply
botijo - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI wonder, isn't RAM specially expensive in the builds? Reply
icrf - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkAre the Xeon versions of these chips still slated for release in two weeks after IDF? I want more cores plus AVX2, but I also want VT-d. Reply
TheinsanegamerN - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkAll 3 of these support VT-d. Reply
icrf - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkAh, I realize now that I'm really after a motherboard question. Support was usually restricted to server chipsets. Reply
Solix - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkI'm still not sure I was able to glean enough data to determine efficiency. If we consider that third party sata 6 and usb 3 is just fine by me, and DDR3 price is nice and 1.35v cas 8 is easy, the question becomes a little more murky. Is AVX2 still broken (I believe that was what was being disabled in micro code right)? If so, and given that I use 3 GPUs and some pci-e SSDs, 5820k is less interesting to me. So my current 4930k vs. a 5930k, for me, comes down to power efficiency under load once overclocked and undervolted. This box is more active than it is idle and my experiments on the desktop showed that a properly overclocked ivy bridge at 4.8ghz or so could go toe to toe with a haswell at 4.3ish but was more power efficient in the process. Maybe I stick with the 4930k. What do you think folks? Reply
jwcalla - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkTSX is still broken, yes. Reply
Ammohunt - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkyet another new socket?!?!?!?! F U intel. Reply
StealthGhost - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link2500k / 2600k benchmarks to compare against would be amazing. Reply
Etern205 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkCinebench R15 Multithread benchmark. Did the 5960X really get a "1337"? Reply
JumpingJack - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkYes, it really got 1337 for CB R15, several sites are showing around the 1330 mark:
http://techreport.com/review/26977/intel-core-i7-5... Reply
Michael REMY - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkagain, in your table of extreme core i7 cpus, you forgot the last 4-core Nehalem which is : the i7-975X at 3.3GHz .
No, the 965X is not the latest 4-core extreme ! Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkConsidering this would have cost me ~340€ over my i7-4770K (which I have @ 4.5GHz and delidded), because of the price difference in CPU and the fact that I had a 1150 socket mainboard from my retired mining rig, I'm not too salty about it. At least it is 6 core at the low end, that is encouraging. I've been mostly fine with my i7-860 so I guess the i7-4770k will serve me a while. Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link"With ASUS motherboards, they have implemented a new onboard button which tells 2x/3x GPU users which slots to go in with LEDs on the motherboard to avoid confusion."
Because looking stuff up in the manual is way too complicated! Reply
anactoraaron - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkThe 5820 can be had for $299 at micro center and they will also discount a compatible motherboard by $40. Jus' sayin'. IDK if there's some kind of ad agreement, etc for listing Newegg's price... Anyone shopping for anything should always shop around. Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link"Very few PC games lose out due to having PCIe 3.0 x8 over PCIe 3.0 x16"
Any? Even BF4 might be more due to other factors. It might be more useful to determine these bottlenecks with uhd. Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkI want to try with UHD. Need the monitors though. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link
The 28 lanes of the i7-5820K has almost no effect on SLI gaming at 1080p.
I realize you where trying to CPU limit the benchmarks by using such a low resolution, but does this still hold up when running, say, three 1440p monitors? Wouldn't that be the time when the GPUs are maxed out and start shuttling large amounts of data between themselves? Reply
Ian Cutress - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkI want to test with higher resolutions in the near future, although my monitor situation is not as fruitful as I would hope. There is no big AnandTech warehouse, we all work in our corner of the world so shipping around this HW is difficult. Reply
KAlmquist - Friday, August 29, 2014 - link"The move to DDR4 2133 C15 would seem to have latency benefits over previous DDR3-1866 and DDR3-1600 implementations as well."
If my math is correct, this is wrong. With DDR4 2133 timings of 15-15-15, each of those 15's corresponds to 14.1 nanoseconds. (Divide 2133 by two to get the actual frequency, then divide the clock count by the frequency.) With DDR3 1600 and the common 9-9-9 timings, each time is only 11.25 nanoseconds. With DDR3, the actual transfer of the data takes four clock cycles (there are eight transfers, but "DDR" stands for "double data rate" meaning that there are two transfers per clock cycle). That translates to 5 nanonseconds on DDR3 1600. DDR4 transfers twice as much data at a time, so with DDR4 2133 a transfer takes eight clock cycles or 7.5 nanoseconds. So DDR3 1600 has lower latency than the DDR4 2133 memory.
So why does Sandra report a memory latency of around 28.75 nanoseconds (92 clock cycles at 3.2 Ghz) as shown in the chart on page 2 of this review? If a bank does not have an open page, then the memory latency should be 15+15+8 clock cycles, or 35.6 nanoseconds, not counting the latency internal to the processor. So the Sandra benchmark result seems implausible to me. As far as I can tell, the source code for the Sandra benchmark is not available so there is no way to tell exactly what it is measuring. Reply
JumpingJack - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkGood points. Reply
NeatOman - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkSooo... its good for very high end gaming and rendering. Reply
Motion2082 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkHey guys, I'm running a i7 2600k on ME4Z @ 4.8GHz. My system is fast enough for most applications, only struggles with multiple applications running. Should I be looking at Haswell-E or waiting until Broadwell? Only annoyance I have with i7 2600k is slow video encoding and restrictions on multi-tasking. Reply
TeXWiller - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkAdjust manually your process priorities and core affinities, if necessary. The old work horse will take you a lot longer still. I may have a 14-hour rendering process going with fully loaded cores and still run a nice FPS session at will, provided that I adjust the process priority manually. Reply
mapesdhs - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link
What is your RAM speed? I find 2133 @ CL10 to be optimal with the M4E/Z (I have
five of those boards, all with 2700Ks @ 5.0).
Make sure you have a good SATA3 SSD to exploit the Intel SATA3 port. Don't use
the Marvell ports. An H80i with NDS fans works really well for low-noise, but even an
old TRUE with any two decent fans will happily run a 2700K @ 5.0 (I've used the
TRUE, TRUE Black, VenomousX, Phanteks, etc., but recently bought a whole pile of
refurb H80s for a good price).
If you want an intermediate upgrade, get a used 3930K C2, a good used X79 board
(I keep buying the ASUS P7X79 WS, done five so far), move over your RAM, etc.
Note the same caveats re Intel/Marvell ports, use an H100i + NDS fans instead, and
voila, you're up & running away with a 6-core for not much outlay. A recent build I did
empllyed a 3960X which cost 245 UKP, the above ASUS board for 190 UKP, etc.
Gave 1221 for CB R15, while your 2600K @ 4.8 should give around 850, so that's a
very nice bump for threaded tasks and running multiple apps in general.
I suggest an 840 Pro or 850 Pro for an SSD, though there are lots of used bargains
available. I bagged a 512GB Vector for 160, ideal as a cache for AE, while an OEM
840 Pro was only 87. Best of all, I keep getting 1475W Thermaltake Toughpower XT
Gold units for around 125 UKP (less than half normal new cost), perfect for handling
four heavy GPUs for CUDA or whatever (my system has four GTX 580 3GB atm) in
an oc'd 6-core system with multiple SSDs, RAID, etc.
More references, examples & suchlike available on request - don't want to clog this thread.
Ian. Reply
LordHaHa - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkMixed feelings on this one. This is a solid effort here, and the 5820K at around $390 is potentially interesting, seems very similar to the 3930K and it's a bit cheaper by default.
That said, I don't see much of a reason to upgrade from SB-E or IB-E if you already have something in that. Certainly even the 5820K is a bit overkill for gaming for the price.
I do have to say we live in strange times where even latter-day Core 2 systems (paired with very good video cards, as a caveat) are still fairly capable for most single player gaming environments; certainly they can still handle any casual task thrown at them. And anyone who's got to Sandy Bridge has had little reason to upgrade their systems yet, for sure. Ten years ago, saying "I have no reason to upgrade my 2-4 or so generation old box" would have been crazy talk. Reply
Laststop311 - Friday, August 29, 2014 - linkVery impressed with the 8 core overclock. I was worried that having such a low stock meant the oc wouldn't be too good. They had it on a crappy closed loop 140mm rad and it did well. I have a custom loop that cools the motherboard chipset and vrm, the cpu, and the gpu. A triple 5.25" reservoir with dual mcp 655 pumps in series at setting 4 1 below max pump speed a 60mm thick 420mm rad with 6x 140mm noctua a15 fans in push pull. Hopefully I can hit 4.8ghz i'll be very happy but as long as i can hit 4.5ghz ill be satisfied. I'm coming from a 4261mhz i7-980x so this is going to be a rly big upgrade for my video work and even a noticeable boost in gaming not huge but noticeable.
I'm totally pleased with the i7-5960x. Waited 3 generations from nehalem to upgrade. With haswell-e ill be waiting at least 4 possibly 6 generations to upgrade unless some crazy new chipset geature makes me do it earlier. Reply
cactusdog - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI really wish they took the voltage regulator off the CPU. Its really a bit sad that a 4790K can beat this highend expensive chip in single threaded tasks. I was really looking forward to this but performance doesn't justify the cost unless you do a lot of multi threaded stuff. With skylake coming with PCI-E 4 this system is going to be outdated pretty quickly. One thing is for sure, the days of big overclocks on the CPU side are over. Reply
ToTTenTranz - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkThe 28 lanes in the 5820k don't make much difference in SLI because it uses the SLI bridge as interconnect between the graphics cards.
It would be interesting to see if the 16x/8x configuration makes any difference with two of the newer bridgeless Radeon cards.
Especially since the first build exemplified in this review uses that same configuration (5820k with two Radeon 285 cards). Reply
mlambert890 - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkthere absolutely is *not* data going across the sli bridge at all. the only thing going across the bridge is timing and signaling info. it is a tiny 1GB/s interconnect
at extremely high resolutions on pcie 2 SLI is where you specifically DO need more lanes. pcie 3 alleviates this. multi 4k would bottleneck again, but the best gpus can barely handle a single 4k in high detail anyhow even in tri-sli Reply
fallaha56 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkHmm one last benchmark (emulation-related) I'd like to see (and suspect many others would too) -run PCSX2 in software mode with 8+ threads and see if there's benefits.
Try something really tough like Shadow of the Colossus.
Looks like this chip is a man looking for a mission, is that it? Reply
tuxfool - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI'm not so sure it would be of great benefit. Emulators are thread limited by the hardware they're attempting to emulate. I read somewhere that pcsx has a thread limit due to the difficulty in synchronizing each ps2 hardware component in each thread.
Dolphin also favors clock speed over simultaneous threads. Reply
bleh0 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkAfter holding off for 4 years I think it is time for an upgrade. While the builds in the article are good I'm still looking for more. Reply
chizow - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkGlad I upgraded to Z87+4770K last year. While it is great that Intel *FINALLY* upgraded the rest of their platform to native USB 3.0 and all SATA3 (6G) ports, along with newer options like M.2 and SATA Express, the drop in clocks to accommodate the higher number of cores and higher resultant TDP makes it a wash for my primary purpose: gaming.
I also didn't want to have to pay early adopters tax on DDR4, and it looks like that tax is high right now. Coming from X58, I was also very pleased with the drop in total system power going to Z87. I'd estimate between a 920@4GHz and the difference in board power, its pulling about 50W less at idle and 100W less under load. My Kill-A-Watt measurements indicate similar.
Still, if buying today and putting together a new platform for the future, this would be a good option now that Intel has addressed all of the major issues I had with the X79 platform (full native USB 3.0, full native SATA6G, official PCIe 3.0 etc).
@Ian, I am sure it is due to being limited to what you have on hand, but it would have been nice to see some more powerful GPUs tested, just to better illustrate potential CPU performance differences once the GPU bottleneck is lifted. Nice job though, the new graph toggles are really slick. Reply
AsakuraZero - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linki was worried about this new processors since i just bought an i7 4770k, and damn im still a happy owner of an amazing chip Reply
TEAMSWITCHER - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI pulled the trigger on the 4770K last year also....but I did so only because the Ivy Bridge E was stuck on the X79 chipset. For me, it was an interim solution while I waited for Haswell-E. When my new X99 parts arrive next week, I'll upgrade my system and put the Haswell parts on craigslist - I should be able to sell them for a bargain price and reclaim some cash. Reply
AsakuraZero - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkthe 4770k still sells well on ebay i got mine at 270 (used) looked like new and works likea champ, Haswell e doesnt look bad but in a world where the x86 doesnt use all the cores on many of its applications, or gaming im happy with my purchase, enjoy your CPU and milk every buck out of it! Reply
Jonathan_Rung - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - link"With Haswell LGA1150 CPUs, while the turbo frequency of the i7-4770K was 3.9 GHz, some CPUs barely managed 4.2 GHz for a 24/7 system."
I think I spotted a little typo on page 3, did you mean "With Haswell z87..."? I didn't think any of the 4770x CPUs could use an 1150 socket. Or am I misreading it? Reply
Mr Perfect - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkThe Haswell i7-4770k is socket 1150.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... Reply
Jonathan_Rung - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkOh, you're right. I guess I'm confusing sockets and chipsets. Obviously CPUs need a matching socket, but do they also need a matching chipset, or do newer motherboards just allow newer feature sets introduced by the cpu? Or am I still getting it wrong?
It seems like every time a new generation of CPUs are released, a bunch of new motherboards with identical chipsets show up to compliment them, so I thought each generation of CPUs have matching chipset that need to pair with one another.
Sorry, this is like amateur hour, I'll just google this stuff. It's strange, I like reading these articles, but I haven't the slightest idea why - I only understand what they're saying like half of the time! Reply
mcbowler - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkat least my dolphin rating is still on top! not sure why that is important. Reply
akLuckyCharm - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkThank you Anand Tech for showing performance with ALL of the cpus overclocked as apposed to only one chip overclocked and the rest at stock. This makes the comparison much more fair and realistic. Reply
MrSpadge - Saturday, August 30, 2014 - linkI really like the analysis of performance per clock. It really helps me to judge CPU performance. However, why do you disable HT for these tests? All the CPUs considered have it, and on average it boosts performance. And most importantly:
"Haswell bought... two new execution ports and increased buffers to feed an increased parallel set of execution resources... Intel doubled the L1 cache bandwidth."
Right. Which means Haswell may very well see better performance improvements from enabling HT than older CPUs. This could be very relevant for the workloads which people should run on these 6 and 8 core monsters. And by that I'm not talking about gaming ;) Reply
vision33r - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkMost people don't need this setup because the only thing here is really your Haswell processor with couple of extra cores, a few different parts for DDR4, and a little bump here in L2 and that's it. Games don't need all of these changes because most games today are sophisticated enough to utilize them.
I can certainly see that my VM and rendering machine will love the new 5960X and DDR4 but it's not worth investing in new platform when it just came out.
Anyone that does high end AV content creation will see a big bump if you got the money to spend on it. Reply
HongKonger1997 - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkSo if I only game with computer, my 3960X is still good? Reply
MrSpadge - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkOf course. Even a Sandy Bridge i5 would easily do the jpb, a 3960X is actually complete overkill. Reply
Artemis *Seven* - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkAll great benchmarks except for the gaming ones. It's pretty common knowledge that Geforce cards like to handle almost everything "in-house" whereas AMDs tend to dump a big chunk of their workload onto the CPU. All I'm saying is that I'd love to see a gaming benchmark redone with R9's - I'm betting it would show the differences between these processors in games better - if there are actually any :D Reply
mlambert890 - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkthe differences are minor with PURE cpu tests. sandy e to ivy e is about 5% ipc gain. ivy e to hw e is another 8% or so, but it suffers a 10% oc ceiling deficit against them and it has higher latency ram to boot.
unless your workload truly has 8 threads or you multitask to the point you are saturating 6 fast cores this is a non upgrade coming from sandy or ivy Reply
woj666 - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkIt's curious why they used the dud 5960 results for overclocking vs the one that kept up to the 4790 in overclocking. I detect some 4 core bias here.
A email@example.com will run at the same temperature as a email@example.com. Reply
mlambert890 - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkdouble the active cores at same clock rate equals lots more power which equals lots more heat. notice the tdp values? Reply
faster - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkI might finally upgrade my work computer. I'm running an i7 920 with 8gb memory and a 256 GB SSD drive. I need that extra power for word processing, emailing, and surfing the web. Oh wait, no I don't. For the basic computer user, computers have been fast enough for many years.
For my home gaming machine, I don't see a reason to upgrade my 4770k. Reply
oranos - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkJust like with anything in life, there are some people who will pay a premium to have the best of the best. This is exactly that. Reply
oranos - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - linkAs a matter of fact, for the next generation (nvidia 9xx series and amd xxx) in quad sli/xfire setups, this chip will allow more bandwidth through the PCI-E lanes. So for the top 1% of setups this chip does matter. Reply
mlambert890 - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkno it wont. my p7x79ws with 3960x and tri sli titan has 40 native pcie 3 lanes. sb-e has 40 lanes and pcie 3 support. advanced x79 boards with current bios fully support.
this is a non upgrade honestly (x99) vs a high end x79. all you really get is usb3 and sata 6Gb/s native vs third party integrated (BFD), and the mixed bag that is ddr4 Reply
Fedor - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkVery strangely, tomshardware has the 5820 beating out the 5930 and 5960 in gaming benchmarks. The test platforms here and there are very different, but for a start it would be great if you guys could also show us some results with a single GPU for the 5820 and 5930. Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkIMHO, tomshardware messed up something here - there is no physical reason why 5820 can beat 5930, because they have the same core count and cache structure, but 5930 has higher frequencies and 40 PCIe lanes vs 28 lanes of 5820. Reply
Fedor - Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - linkYup, I'm leaning towards the same conclusion. It's a shame that most reviews do not cover anything but the highest-end chip, but between anandtech, tomshardware, 3dguru and another review I found in Belgian (the graphs were self-explanatory at least ;) only tomshardware has that anomaly, so I'm inclined to agree. Reply
Bombreezey - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkThese cpu's would be more beneficial to higher resolution gaming. I love how people are trying to compare this new cpu's to the i5-2500k. There is nothing wrong with the 2500k when gaming at 1080p but when the time comes when people start witching over to 4k gaming when it becomes more affordable your 2500k is gonna struggle big time. Like people have said earlier, there is more to computing than gaming. These cpu's will be vastly faster at video converting/rendering, and other cpu intensive applications when compared to older series of intel cpu's. On another note I see people are complaining about heat because of the high tdp... when there are more cores its gonna need more power......soooooo get a water cooler and problem solve :). At least the tdp isnt 220watts like amd 8 core cpu. So 150watts is pretty fair for a intel 8 core cpu that straight up murders a AMD 8 CORE CPU. Reply
untoreh - Friday, September 12, 2014 - linkamd octa core costs 1/4 of the intel octa core, if not 1/5. Reply
soldier45 - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkWas thinking of moving from my 2600k at 4.8 to the 5930k but really not worth the $ for a 20% boost in certain apps and little to no improvement in gaming. Reply
ryanbrod - Monday, September 01, 2014 - linkWhy is it that every review of the haswell-e chipsets doesn't even make an attempt to saturate more then 16 pcie lanes... The whole point of the haswell-e chips in my opinion is the extra PCIe Lanes for tri and quad sli/crossfire set ups. dual gtx 770s is a joke of a review if you ask me. Put in at least 3 of them or dont do a gaming review at all because its going to be less then 2% difference in performance from regular i7s. Reply
ol1bit - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkYou would think since intel seems stuck at a specific design speed for the most part(other than die shrink) that AMD could come up with a better architecture. Maybe there is no better architecture out there? Reply
coachingjoy - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - link
...With the i7-5820K being two generations newer, it should afford a 10-15% performance improvement in CPU limited benchmarks. This is quite amazing if we consider the release price of the i7-3960X was $990 and the release price of the i7-5820K is $389....
ha, in three years we have 10-15% performance increase. Reply
willis936 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkSince those parts are nearly identically clocked with a cost per core core being so low you're really getting about a 280% increase in performance per dollar over three years. Compared to other market segments that have practically stalled out everywhere in x86 land yes it is pretty amazing. Reply
LemmingOverlord - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkabout the gaming benchmarks, core count doesn't really make a difference in most of your chosen games... however there are still a few good CPU-benchmark games that come to mind, Civ V and the Supreme Commander series, to mention a couple. In fact I'd keep an eye out for Planetary Annihilation. It's avalilable this weekend, although I'm pretty sure Uber Entertainment would hand one over just for benchmarking. Reply
Gonemad - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - link"now the lowest end CPU for the extreme Intel platform". Yep, I'm just using an i7-920, that was exactly at the same spot in its day. Same architecture and memory as the extreme flagship, at a fraction of the cost. Not counting server chips, right?
Intel Core i7-5820K, you say eh? Hmm... maybe I should write that down for later... Except I'm not planning anything beyond 1080p, then all of these chips and cards are a bit overkill.
Correction: I want full pedal-to-the-metal at 1080p, perhaps the "average build" should help... right? I appreciate anybody pitching in on the details for a machine to run anything at 1080p (or 1920x1200 actually) at 60 fps, but not more. Reply
azazel1024 - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkI'd like to add what is the most interesting to me is the 5820k. Hexacore cheap (Intel Hexacore, which IMHO is the only kind that matters). I'll likely never have the budget for a $1000 chip and then the system to do it justice.
However I currently have an i5-3570 OC to 4GHz. Cost something like $380 for processor and board at the time. For what appears to be around $600 I could now get 50% more cores, hyperthreading and probably be able to reliably OC to a "consevative" 4.2GHz for probably >60% performance improvement for less than half again the cost.
In comparison to moving up to the i7-4770k, which would only cost maybe $50 or so less, with a modest performance improvement (probably only 15-30%).
It does make me VERY interested in Broadwell-E and Skylake-E, as those are the most likely points at which I might be looking at an upgrade. I do wonder if Skylake-E will see entry level Enthusiast Octocore, and maybe even if it'll mean high end mainstream Skylake Hexacore.
That would be an interesting decision if 6 or 8 core processors were not terribly far off in price. Reply
Nfarce - Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - link"However I currently have an i5-3570 OC to 4GHz. Cost something like $380 for processor and board at the time. For what appears to be around $600 I could now get 50% more cores, hyperthreading and probably be able to reliably OC to a "consevative" 4.2GHz for probably >60% performance improvement for less than half again the cost."
Dude, did you forget about the cost of having to buy DDR4 memory modules? That will throw your numbers out the window. Reply
BLOODYHELL - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkWHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK FOR LARGE FILE VIDEO EDITING? MMA FIGHTING ETC. ADOBE PREMIRE CS6, VEGAS? Reply
BLOODYHELL - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkWhat do you guys think for large video editing MMA FIGHTS, WEDDINGS? Trying to save time editing and rendering videos. Reply
naxeem - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkWell, since Broadwell is not out yet, I doubt we'll see SkyLake that soon... Reply
swing848 - Thursday, September 04, 2014 - linkRegarding your statement about game benchmarks, "It makes sense that we should test this with 4K in the future".
You did not say how far into the future, in the near future it makes NO since. The video card you used was an 770; there is no way that GPU can handle 4K at high game settings, even medium settings will bring it to it's knees. First of all it is a mid-range GPU, secondly, it does not have enough local memory.
Lower resolutions more indicate what the CPU can do because the GPU is not overtaxed therefore not becoming a factor.
If you change anything, pick a higher end video card, to make sure the GPU is not bottlenecking tests. Reply
M.Q.Leo - Saturday, September 06, 2014 - linkThis generation has not much improvement I think. Especially 5820K, even less PCI-E Lanes there is! :( Reply
djemir - Monday, September 08, 2014 - linkI owned a first generation 2008 I7 running at a measly 2.7Ghz and I can tell you the new motherboard alone having 6GB/s SATA and 10GB/sec SATA interface made up for speed losses not to mention the 4790K running at 4.5GHz on a stable overclock. For photoshop and video the new CPU and motherboard have made a world of difference. Save time and open / read time has been reduced from 3-15 minutes per file down to "wait what I can count it on fingers???!" 7 seconds. That means no more "oh well it's saving let me go to the bathroom or something while I wait for this slow a$$ computer. I'm kind of wanting to kick myself for buying a z97 on the very day that the new x99's came out but when I did a price check it just wasn't worth it. This will hold me over til those crazy prices drop. I looked at bench marks for the 4790k vs the lower spectrum of the newer x99's and it looks like the 4790K does better in Photoshop than the X99 due to higher frequency. I even had to drop 8GB of Ram because my old motherboard had 6 slots and was holding 24GB of Ram in 4GB sticks now my new motherboard only has 4 slots. That made me sad. But even with less RAM the motherboard and processor are much more efficient and they can actually use the higher speeds of my SSDs and my 3GB/s and 6GB/s internal and external hard drives as well. Everyone arguing that their old processors are amazing need to open their eyes. On paper it all sounds like they are very much equal. But people forget that motherboards have been improving as well. I was having consistent blue screen crashes on my old system eve after refreshing the system a few times. This new configuration (Asus with i7-4790k) runs like a champ no blue screens at all, nothing but blue skies. I think Intel needs to just drop their prices a little, I would have prefered to get the 8 core i7 or 12 core xeon Yes that sucker is out there as well but at $1000-2500 for these units it's just not worth the small amounts of improvements vs the price. Whereas the huge increase i felt in performance at a much lower price point was worth the upgrade. Reply
untoreh - Friday, September 12, 2014 - linkWhat about benching some games that have decent multithreading? Like games on the bitsquid engine like War of the roses/war of the vikings? Or Natural Selection 2 with its immensive poligon count? No. Lets just benchmark GPU Heavy AAA titles that generally push the GPU Market more than the gaming market. If you wanna benchmark a 8 core CPU with games, you should AT LEAST let them be half with decent MT support. Reply
IUU - Thursday, September 18, 2014 - linkWell, except for gaming..
Mostly true but not completely true.
If you play chess, the 8 core version will smoke any 4 core version just for fun.
There are other games that are not in the front scene right now that are mainly cpu demanding.
Any fps game currently in the market, is heavily based on showing realism, so it requires graphics processing power,and demanding from a powerful cpu to run such a game faster than the fractions of a second a slower cpu would, is well.. pointless.
But gaming is vast , bigger than your encoding software, your bitcoin mining, and your much advertised enterprise software. When developed further, it will require what the most demanding scientific applications require and probably more. See that it is already a main driving force(if not the main driving force) of modern supercomputer improvement. And it will be for the future.
Think of ingame ais, multiple ais, that will interact with the game world like a human would. Think of voice and pattern recognition, of tracking thousands or millions of objects, etc etc.
If your only aspiration in buying such a cpu is how good it will run current gen games, you wouldn't ever belong in the category of appropriate customers for this cpu. You would rather be excited by the mobile parts, which while anemic compared to the 8-core haswell, are fancy and fashionable and satisfy your vanity.
Of course it still remains as a problem, because of this sad market turn, the rise in the pricing of the "extreme" parts which puts the most of us off. Reply
kelendar - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - linkThe one thing I like about the X99 chipset over my ASUS P8P67 Deluxe are the plethora of SATAIII ports and vastly improved onboard sound. The problem is the SB is a dead platform; there is no upgrade path with it and all boards ever made have few ports. I actually had to buy a separate add-in card but it suffers from being on the PCI-8x port - connect more than 1 drive, and they share the throughput.
That's why I'm looking at this build. I figure the ASUS Rampage IV + 5820 + 16 GB RAM should set me back about $1,100 but it gives me a bit of future-proofing. Reply
Spartan 363 - Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - linkI just purchased the i7 5930K along with an EVGA X99 Classified mobo with 16 GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 3000 RAM for now along with 2 EVGA GTX 980 Classified for SLI. I purchased both the Classified versions of the mobo and GTX 980's because I love tinkering and overclocking to see what is the best stable clocks I can achieve without heating up my bedroom like my PC were a space heater which would be handy in a month or so as the cold weather returns to Northern VA where I live. My current PC and even my older PC that this build replaced are air cooled for now. I will buy WC blocked and such for my GTX 980's since I have fantastic components for overclocking with the Classified things from EVGA and a CPU that OC's well too on air.
Sure,this was a very expensive upgrade, but at least the CPU, RAM and the MOBO will be good for the next 4-5 years just like my old aging i7 920 D0/MSI X58 Pro-E mobo w/12 GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 Triple Channel and that PC had aging SLI GTX 680's that have been great so far, but it was time to upgrade that system, it was a great PC for all these years since I purchased it when the X58 and i7 series first launched back then.
This upgrade over my aging X58 build is a massive jump as I was running into CPU bottlenecks with my SLI GTX 680 even with the CPU overclocked to a stable 3.8GHZ on air cooling with good temps in mind. I tested my new system with both my old EVGA GTX 680 FTW+ 4GB cards in SLI and a single GTX 980 beats it in games that don;t have as great SLI/Crossfire support and when I placed my second GTX 980, it was overkill compared to the 680's but also using less power at the reference clocks at first. I may get a third GTX 980 but I'm holding out on the possible rumored GTX 980 Ti that may come around Spring 2015 and I hope to get 2 at least for SLI if they are a comparble upgrade like the GTX 780 Ti was over the 780 and I hope to have 6 to 8GB of VRAM on the cards too as I am gaming at 4K and there are times where the VRAM is topped out and more VRAM is needed. I'm just glad the that GTX 980 was such a great buy this time around and made a big difference for those of use on aging GTX 680's and earlier cards. I usually upgrade every 2 years for my GPU anyways. I am currently reading up and also overclocking my new build to to tutorials and such on these components that I have since it's been years since I really used to tinker with voltages, RAM memory timings and of course serious voltage tweaks to the GPUS for better overclocking. I actually miss the old days of my tinkeirng my PC for hours a day when I was younger, but at least I have the weekends off to tinker with my new gaming beast that should last me for a few more years. For now, I'm happy at the performance that I have with a mild overclock and my games run and look fantastic on my new 55 inch LG 55UB8500 4K TV that has HDMI 2.0 so that I can play at 60 FPS, but with my current setup,I'm averaging 40+ FPS in most games on ultra settings with AA set to 2 or non at all since in my opinion, a 55 inch 4K TV is the perfect size foe the resolution and turning off AA in most games makes no major difference in appearance on the screen due to the high resolution, so that's a major plus for 4K gaming and it's easier on the hardware too. That TV only cost me about $1500 in Best Buy during the Labor Day weekend sales. It was a steal for a TV that has great features and most importantly, HDMI 2.0 to take advantage of my GTX 980's in 4K instead of having to use Display Port to HDMI adapters I was using with my GTX 680 SLI to achieve 30+ FPS in a few games at 4K with no AA and such.
For those that want great performance at 4K, SLI GTX 980's are great and are great for systems that have PSUs typically that can comfortably handle both cards at load with a quality 750W PSU vs needing a 1000W unit for older cards. Reply
Spartan 363 - Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - linkI forgot to mention that I am currently using 2 EVGA GTX 980 SC, but I will be sending them back next week to exchange them for the Classified cards that will be the aire cooled ones, but I am currently running clocks on both my current cards at a mild 1300 mhz OC on the core while the memory is at the factory clocks for now, not bad for air cooling, I know I can push for 1400 to 1500 but I will wait for the Classified cards for that type of OC as I will be getting EK WC blocks for both cards this time. Reply
sandwich_hlp - Tuesday, October 07, 2014 - linkBeen trying to decipher Intel roadmaps and the like, to no avail, so... can anyone tell me approximately when the DDR4-supporting Core i5 line is expected to launch? I'm needing to upgrade my aged Core 2 Duo (DDR2!), but I don't wanna hop on the DDR3 bandwagon just as it's being superseded by DDR4... :-/ Reply
GGuess - Saturday, December 06, 2014 - linkThere should be a line of discussion of why haven't CPU speeds increased in the past 5years in a significant way. My 5yr old Intel I7 is a 4 core at 3GHz. The ones discussed here are only 6 or 8 cores and run stock in the mid-3 to 4GHz range. So over 5yrs, the CPU capability has not grown 2 to 3times faster, and that only applies to applications that can use the extra cores and hyper-threading. The usual rule we work to is that people won't even notice a 50% speed increase. It has to be 2 to 3 times before it is noticed. Previously, a 3year refresh of a computer resulted in a 5 to 10x computer speed increase.
With the current barely noticeable 2x, why bother with the trouble of an upgrade? No wonder Intel's and AMD's sales figures are failing to grow. Reply
avikbellic911 - Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - linki am a very happy owner of i7 4960x.....i think x79 boards still win over the x99's i mean x79 can still run like 2800+3100Mhz Rams without Much of Overclocking....I know technology must move on but i fell like x99 is still not much worth at all.....x99 is about 7% improvement is performance if we compare with x79 Reply
Visibilities - Friday, April 10, 2015 - linkObviously higher OC'ing is good... But, you guys can have fun with your QUAD core 2500k, and a memory bandwidth of 21GB/s... While the 5960x has EIGHT cores, and three times (3x) the bandwidth... Enjoy the 2500k (x Reply
moheban79 - Tuesday, September 01, 2015 - linkI wish when they were comparing the 5820k to 5930k cpu the clockrates were adjusted to be the same while benching SLI gamings 770 GTX scores so you could see the real difference between 16/8 and 16/16 available lanes on performance because I can't tell if that 5% difference is due to the higher clock speed or not. Also wouldn't hurt to use a Titan instead to max out those lanes. Reply

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Idle No More participants share what they hope the movement achieves and what other Canadians should know about it
Nate Buwalda, Edmonton
I would love to see an open forum discussion from one nation (Canada, federally) to another (aboriginal nations), just as some of the original treaties were signed. Autonomy is what aboriginal communities deserve; these communities should have never been wards of the state. It's time for the federal government to stop trying to discredit First Nations leadership, and by doing so discredit aboriginal peoples.
Kandice Baptise, Waterloo, Ont.
As a Mohawk woman I believe it's our duty to protect mother Earth and our unborn children. I am looking to create meaningful change for the future generations. Also hoping to create meaningful and unbiased dialogue across cultures.
Alexander Ervin, Saskatoon
It is non-threatening in a militant sense. It is truly grassroots. It is respectful, non-racist. It has given First Nations youth a sense of purpose and honour. It is not asking for handouts. It has remarkable youthful and feminine leadership that gives us hope for all of Canada.
Jamie Idol, New Brunswick
The importance of this movement is its emphasis on social justice and the engagement of our people in a truly democratic process. There are no leaders, no set agenda, it's an organic process that grows daily through information sharing, debate and a passion for change that has invigorated many segments of our community. It is important to show our youth that change is possible, that hope is not lost.
Phyllis Racette, Ebb and Flow, Man.
I hope that history will not keep on repeating itself. To end the lack of justice for our missing and murdered women. To unite all indigenous people globally and to stop the raping and pillaging of mother Earth by big business corporations who care nothing other than making money. To educate all Canadians about Bill C-45.
Dan McIsaac, Annapolis Royal, N.S.
I want to remind the government that they are accountable, and that their job is to represent US! They are supposed to be our facilitators, not our masters. I also want issues that affect First Nations to be finally resolved in a good and equitable way.
Emily Claire Gallienne, Toronto
We want people to be aware that the systemic racism, both historical and in our present-day government, has impacted First Nations people in horrific ways. To see so many allied people come forward and give support to the cause, to say "yes, our community INCLUDES you, and your issues are my issue, we are all treaty people" is quite cathartic and moving.
Michael Pealow, Whitehorse
This is a Canadian issue - not just a First Nations issue. It's okay to have an opinion, but don't assume you know what's best for First Nations people. They don't try to tell you what's best for you. Assimilation practices haven't worked in 150 years and they're not going to now. It's time for a new approach.
Sarah Khan, Vancouver
I am indebted to First Nations and the Idle No More movement for putting a spotlight on the environmental harms being brought against this country by Stephen Harper and his cabinet, as I believe that we are going to be stuck cleaning up the mess left by this government for decades to come.
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