I look forward to upgrading my system soon (either Ryzen or Coffee Lake). I currently have 2 systems, specs are below 1. Xeon X5650 @4Ghz on Gigabyte X58a-UD7, 12GB Corsair XMS DDR 1600 in triple channel 2. Core i5 4590 3.3-3.7Ghz on AsRock Z97x killer 3.1, 16GB KLEVV DDR2400 in dual channel. I have a ASUS strix GTX 1080 O8G and a Plextor M8PEG 256GB M.2 NVME SSD which can be installed in either one of the systems. I am wondering which system should I keep until my next upgrade. The i5 system is more current than the X58 platform hence higher resell value to fund my next upgrade. However I afraid the X58 is less competent in gaming. I have tried gaming in both systems with the GTX 1080 and honestly I didn't feel there is any difference in gaming performance. All cores on the Xeon were utilized across the board when playing The Division in UltraWide 1080p. (I only require my games to be played at highest setting at 60fps v-synced). Look forward to have opinion from you guys, cheers!
Hi there Hard to recommend, I have owned like X5670 OC to 4.4GHz and i7-4790k OC to 4.6Ghz and I preferred more X58 than Z97 but that time I didn't played a lot games, I used mostly my PC for rendering rather than gaming In rendering X5670 has been beast and 4790k how to say, this CPU has been my biggest disappointment In 3DMark difference has been very small or in Unigine Heaven etc I have saw minimal differences as well I recommend test few games and decide which one is best to keep, try few games and try few benches as well there X58 still have good resale value as they can use Xeon chips, several times I saw few boards sold for good prices Personally I would never go with 4c/8t CPU Not sure if this helps you but maybe someone add their views as well to mix Hope this helps Thanks, Jura
This is easy. Keep the X58 setup. That i5 is junk compared to an overclocked X5650 in my opinion. I easily had my X5650 @ 4.5ghz with an h100. i had a i5 4460 @ 3.4 and the x5650 still ran circles around it stock clocks. Especially in Battlefield games and more cpu intensive games. That i5 is gonna be more CPU bound even though it has newer IPC. 4 threads under 4ghz cant compete with 12 threads @4ghz+ Even a i7 920 @ 4ghz+ can beat an i5 4460+ in alot of cpu bound games because of the extra threads. Alot of this is my opinion based of research and facts gathered.
Yeah go for the Xeon here because you 3 times the threads for those CPU intensive games and other CPU heavy tasks.
Hands down, if you plan to use it, keep X58. Been a great platform (still is if you're not necessarily gaming only on it), mine is still running as a HTPC with a GTX 960 for light gaming.