Frys has had it as cheap as $300. Actually the 5820k is very close the kind of CPU I want from Zen, with the key difference that I can use it on a sub-$150 mobo.
I paid $300 for my 5820k and $150 for the mobo ($180 w/ $30 rebate) last summer.
I feel like that was a pretty good deal though because I haven't seen either for less money since.
Already bit the bullet on Skylake, but plan to get me one of those 7700k's. Hoping for a nice 5.0-5.2Ghz overclock if those rumors and leaked pictures are all true.
If 7700K can regularly hit 5GHz+ on reasonable cooling, I would seriously consider dumping my BDW-E for one.
That's silly. And then what, buy Skylake-X when that comes out?
Does KL feature full VP9/AC-1 decoding engines?
If 7700K can regularly hit 5GHz+ on reasonable cooling, I would seriously consider dumping my BDW-E for one.
I am curious. Is anybody here passing on the current Skylake chips and waiting for the Kaby Lake (mainstream) chips?
If so, why? If not, why not?
Not really. HSW was about 10% faster clock-for-clock than IVB, SKL about another 12%. If you get that IVB up to 4.9GHz you'll hit 4GHz SKL levels. Of course SKL can regularly hit 4.5GHz+...
But yeah, SNB/IVB i7 chips were/are awesome.
I dumped my BDW-E asap soon as I tested it against my 6700k in video encoding. the 6700k was almost 50% faster in handbrake and adobe premier. I don't think programs are even ready for more then 4c/8t right now.At least those 2 programs for sure aren't.
I dumped my BDW-E asap soon as I tested it against my 6700k in video encoding. the 6700k was almost 50% faster in handbrake and adobe premier. I don't think programs are even ready for more then 4c/8t right now.At least those 2 programs for sure aren't. You would think more cores 6c/12t vs 4c/8t would be faster but for what ever reason its not true at all.I was having the same issue with quite a few games as well like Batman Arkham Knight,Doom,GTA 5, and BF1.where I was getting higher FPS and less dips with the skylake vs BDW-E CPU. So I am sticking with main stream hardware like the 7700k for now. Just hope nothing is changed and performance is still similar to the 6700k but with higher stockclocks and overclocks vs BDW-E. Right now I am thinking the more cores thing is just a gimmick to get people to buy into higher priced hardware.
Can Z270 work with Skylake? I want the advances from Z270 but not necessarily need a Kaby cpu.
I don't know about Rust, but Battlefield makes great use of extra cores. My X5650 system at 3.8Ghz runs BF like a champ. I'd hold off if that's your primary use.So here's a question. I have a Gulftown 980 6 core 3.33 Ghz and was wondering if I would see a noticeable difference if I went to a Kaby Lake 4.2 Ghz 4 core. Mostly game playing BF1 and Rust. Am I bottlenecked? 1080 GPU, 18 Gb of DDR3 ram.
The geek in me is contemplating a 7350k, purely to break 5ghz and max my memory potential (which is currently running under xmp due to board limations on SKY OC).
De-lid, lap and pump full of volts for 5.5ghz. That'd be nice.