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Fry's has the 5820K for $344 shipped for anyone without a MC nearby. Much better than the $395 and $400 that Amazon and NE are asking for right now.
Its available in store only.
Still kicking myself a bit right now for not waiting a year for my new build, I could have got the i7-5820K hexcore for nearly the same price I paid for the i7-4770K last year.
Oh well, I guess I will have to wait for Skylake-E or Cannonlake-E for my next complete build. With Mantle and DX12 coming I guess I can manage on a quad core for some time.
Please read reviews people... If you have a high end system and proc from the last 2 years, you probably wont see a difference in gaming.
There is no harm, financial or otherwise, to Intel that would occur by unlocking the top SKU of Xeons.
You clearly have never worked in marketing. Xeon has a "brand promise" that included rock-solid stability. Overclocking and stability don't intersect in the mind of a branding person.
HFT shops losing tons of money because of bad math on an overclocked Xeon is pretty much Intel's worst-case nightmare.
They seem to have no nightmares with 1366 xeons being ocable.
Now actually on topic - what heatsink are people using for these? A quick scan at Newegg didn't see any listed but I could have missed them....
Don't we just use socket 2011 heatsinks?
Pulled the trigger on a 5820K, Gigabyte Gaming G1 WIFI, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 2666, and a Corsair H105 to cool it off with.
2011 to 2011-3 sockets are physically all the same. There's only a difference electronically and with the ILM (Independent Loading Mechanism; what is used to hold the processor into place for good contact pretty much).
Well Noctua says for them it is the same :
http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=news_list&news_id=95&lng=en
So are the heatsink mounting holes/dimensions the same? If the ILM is different (I know the load tabs are north/south instead of east/west), the holes could be too...
The LGA2011-V3 socket is compatible with earlier LGA2011 cooling hardware. I'm using my CPU-370 water block with the same mounting hardware for LGA2011 CPUs I've always used.
5820k for me. I don't plan to ski or crossfire so I doubt I'll need more than 28 lanes.
Right now I see little point in the 5820. I think you'd do better to go with a 4790k and some fast DDR3 RAM if your going to stick to a single graphics card.
@Matt174e: ALL Sandy/Ivy Bridge/Haswell CPUs have only 16 PCI-E lanes. For Sandy Bridge, the only variants were x16/x0 and x8/x8. Since Ivy Bridge, you can also have x8/x4/x4.
All the remaining PCI-E lanes are 2.0 from PCH (Z97 and others).
Are you joking?
I think the opposite, completely.
Even if that's true. I'd like to have the option to upgrade the CPU to a higher end 8 core down the road. I also really like the MSI gaming 7 Mb.
How many lanes does the 4790k have? A quick google search is telling me 16, but that doesn't seem right...
Yeah, I can see that as being a draw for some people towards the X99 camp. I just don't tend to work that way. I usually go for either the highest end CPU or the next one down from it if the highest end CPU doesn't offer something more than the one a step below. The 3960X didn't have much on the 3930K so I didn't go for it. I went with the 980X when it offered two more cores and more overclocking headroom than the other 9xx series chips.
I rarely upgrade CPUs usually opting for the highest end CPU at the time I purchase the motherboard. I'm much more likely to replace the motherboard than the CPU down the road. I only replace the CPUs in cases where additional cores are offered since the platform launched or the next iteration of CPUs for that socket offer substantial gains. They usually don't so I rarely bother. I liked the 4930K as an example but didn't think it was worth the cost to upgrade over my overclocked 3930K. The Core i7 980X was a definite jump from the Core i7 920 D0 that preceded it.
I just need more than a 10% CPU speed increase to spend money on another one. Motherboards tend to offer new features or overclocking improvements over their predecessors so again I'm much more likely to upgrade the motherboard and keep the CPU.