jayl86 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I am planning on upgrading, or should I say building a new machine, and presently am using an I5-3570K processor. I have been looking at the I7-4960X and the I7-5960X and oddly the 5960X is cheaper by about $50. They're both the same socket so that isn't a factor, one has more cache and the other has higher clock speed (but 2 less cores). I plan on running a 4 monitor setup. Suggestions on which one to go for ultimately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeAdHuNtErGER Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Hello jayl86to see the differences in simple numbers:i5-3570K (7162)PassMark - Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz - Price performance comparisoni7-4960X (13981)PassMark - Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz - Price performance comparisoni7-5960X (15981)PassMark - Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz - Price performance comparisonHere you can see with an upgrade to i7-4960X you can almost double the power!The differenc between the i7-4960X and i7-5960X isn´t big, but if you use the i7-5960X you need DDR4-RAM which isnt cheap.Why do you need such an high-performance CPU?Best regardsHeAdHuNtErGER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prins_carnaval Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 What do you want to do with your cpu? I got a 3570k @ 4,6ghz and it is still fast enough for me to play games. If you do lots of video editing or other cpu intesinve tasks it might be usefull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PackLeader Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 If your only gaming the i5 is plenty fast and will get more FPS per dollar if you spend the money on a GPU instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredOvelton Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Nice! Thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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