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5820k lifespan?

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I've had my 5820k for a few years now. It's been running happily at 4.3GHz on air and I've had no problems with it.

I mostly game and am no longer running an SLI setup, just a single 1080Ti. I will probably upgrade to Volta when it comes out because I game @ 4k/60Hz.

How much longer should I stay with my 5820k and is there an affordable upgrade that makes sense on the LGA 2011-v3 chipset? Just curious what's come out and what's coming out in the near future and how I would benefit from it?
 
I've got the same, and haven't seen a lot of reason to upgrade right now. I'm probably going to keep it and see what rolls out next year. The current stuff in the same price range as the 5820k isn't much better. It's a bit faster, it sucks down a bit less juice, but that's about it.

It really depends on what you do..if you're gaming, not much reason to upgrade. If you're doing something that is multi-core or multi-thread heavy, then something new MIGHT be worth it.
 
You can go all the way up to ten cores on Broadwell-E, but that's still as ludicrously overpriced as the day it was released.

The 8 core is not bad with the recent price cut, but is still really expensive compared to the new hotness (Skylake X 8 core = $600).

http://www.microcenter.com/product/463390/core_i7-6900k_32ghz_lga_2011-3_intel_processor

And most games use 6 major threads or less, so your processor will not be bottleneck in games.

Games are now starting to universally use 4 threads, with the cheaper cost of 2 core/ 4 threads from Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium. But many still haven't hit the 6-8 mark yet, while you have 6 real cores and 12 threads.

As for how much life you have left, adoption of 6 real cores will take AMD/Intel dropping the price of their top-end quad-core parts to the $100 mark, something neither AMD or Intel are doing anytime soon. Ryzen 4-core has no plans to dip below $100, and neither does *Lake. You've got another 3-4 years before games start demanding more than your processor can handle, even if we have a big price war.
 
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secondhand 18-core Xeons are beginning to show up on eBay for between $400 and $800 depending on the stepping, and will certainly boost X99's viability
 
bwang said:
secondhand 18-core Xeons are beginning to show up on eBay for between $400 and $800 depending on the stepping, and will certainly boost X99's viability
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If you can use the strap to overclock those things then they might indeed extend the life of X99.
 
Depending on the pricing of Coffee Lake, it might be worth looking into. Mainstream is going 6 core finally, and leaked clocks look pretty solid. Assuming they're able to hit the 4.7ghz range, I think I'm going to go ahead and upgrade my 5820k when they drop. At that point were looking at the same number of threads with higher clocks, less power, and a few generations of IPC gains.
 
Pretty sure at 4K gaming (your mark) you shouldn't run into a CPU bottleneck for a few more years at least.
 
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