Of course an i5 can't go up against a hexa core. But even for "high end" gaming you way as well buy the highest clocked i7 quad rather than a server platform that has been rejigged for the consumer market. The obsession with chasing FPS will only drain your wallet.
You went ahead and got the 6900k, so I guess it doesn't matter, but I think I would have just sold the unused cpus, continue using the overclocked 3930k, and pocketed the difference. That is unless you need the extra cores for something besides gaming. After all, even if you do recoup part of the cost by selling old hardware, the 6900k still cost you nearly a thousand dollars, a steep price to pay for the difference in gaming from a nicely overclocked 3930k.For God's sake man, you're making me repeat myself.
Like I said before, my decision to get a 6900K is not driven by performance. It's driven by market conditions. This is the best time to offload all of the extra hardware that I have so I can get the most amount of money for it. RAM prices in particular have gone up, and I have a perfectly good 32GB DDR4 3200 RAM kit sitting around that I paid $207 for originally, which is now worth $250 brand new on the market.
When Skylake-E drops, RAM prices might still be high, but used CPU prices will drop due to all the people trying to sell their CPUs. Hexcore CPUs in particular will lose the most amount of value, because Intel will be making hexcores mainstream next year. So like I've been saying, this is purely a financial move.
In this case, I was able to run this particular i7-6900K at 4.5GHz using 1.350V
I bet a 1700X + 2x1080 SLI would be far better purchase, for the same money
you need 8 cores just for gaming?
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You went ahead and got the 6900k, so I guess it doesn't matter, but I think I would have just sold the unused cpus, continue using the overclocked 3930k, and pocketed the difference. That is unless you need the extra cores for something besides gaming. After all, even if you do recoup part of the cost by selling old hardware, the 6900k still cost you nearly a thousand dollars, a steep price to pay for the difference in gaming from a nicely overclocked 3930k.
Yea, I meant the 5930k.You mean my 5930K I presume. Anyway, what you said was one of the options that I considered. But doing that would have resulted in my 5930K losing a lot of its intrinsic value when Skylake-E becomes available this year, and Intel's mainstream hexcore CPUs become available next year.
When it comes to selling or unloading hardware, the most important thing to consider is timing. Now is the right time to sell my hardware, the 5930K included. A 6900K being an octacore CPU will retain its value much better over time than hexcores, until whenever I decide to sell it.