Haswell-E CPU Reviews: Core i7-5960X, i7-5930K and i7-5820K

Haswell-E has been officially launched:

Here is a list of reviews:

Anandtech

Guru3D

Hardware Canucks

Hardware Heaven

HiTech Legion

PC Perspective

Tweak Town

The Tech Report

Bit-tech

Tom's Hardware

Vortez

HardOCP

HotHardware

Legit Reviews

The 5820k is a bargain at £300. I'll be picking up the 5930k though.

@klunt_bumskrint:

Curious, why is this the case? Are you planning on multi-gpu? Or am I missing something?

Just want to make sure I am not missing anything between the 5930k, and the 5820k. I understand the only real difference between them is 2mhz (base clock) and 1mhz (turbo clock) and the lower PCI lanes on the 5820k. However, for someone like myself who is only planning on a single card solution (as to keep noise/heat down, and just overall more stable setup) the 5820k would be the best choice, right? Especially if these are supposed to overclock well?

If intel keeps this up i won't have to upgrade my cpu for another 10 years.

The i7 5820K is great. Since it doesn't cost much more than i7 4790K its a great deal.

The problem is DDR4. paying for 16GB around $250 :S...

@Coseniath:

True, but I have already decided I am gonna wait for Cyber weekend to get my RAM (DDR4) and most parts, unless I can find them on a decent sale before hand. Which I don't expect really to happen. I also don't expect to save much Cyber Weekend as this is all new hardware. However, anything I can save will be helpful as I have to build 2 of these rigs.

I'm not picking up those extreme cpu's again, some games just run worse and you have to start tweaking.

A fast mainstream cpu is all you need in this day and age

ordered the 5930k, just waiting for a couple 980s now!

The PCI lanes.

I have 2 GPU's now it would be nice to run at 16/16. I might be trowing in another 780 in which case 8/8/8 is better than 8/8/4

Too expensive for me.

You have to factor in the much more expensive RAM and motherboards.

If you plan to run 3+ GPU I would go for 5930K or higher.

The prices are outrageous. This is a great example of when you have zero competition, prices go through the roof. AMD needs to step it up.

Actually these are pretty normal prices for 2011 socket.