Hi everyone, recently got xeon x5690 oc @ 4.4ghz. Looking at broardwell-e benchmarks. Should/do I need to upgrade to 10core or not? will it make that much of a difference. Just spent aus $390 on cpu. Planning to upgrade gpu to 3 x pascal or polaris. Will this make the biggest difference. Cheers, Thanks for your replys.
Any special reason for the upgrade? Which VGA do you have right now? As its today, a single 980ti is perfectly capable of running most of the games at 4K. If yes, you plan VR maybe buy 2 Pascal cards, but thats it. 3 is over kill.
The question is, what do you use the system for? Video editing that will max all the cores you can give it? Or gaming where a 20 threaded cpu isn't required yet?
I will use the system for gaming at 4k. Expensive upgrade though, considering the screen im getting is over $2000 au.
Hi there I would wait on few benchmarks at least,for now I would stick with X5690,its great CPU If you do lots of rendering,then I would upgrade to 10 core,but for gaming only there is no reason go with 6950X,although they can OC well too and can have good too performance in games I've used Titan X with my X5670 and there I've never have any issues there Hope this helps and good luck Thanks,Jura