It's still an excellent CPU nearly 10 years later. I've got one of these running in a server after I retired it from my main gaming rig a few years ago
I'm getting ready to do the same thing with the 5820 rig I built in Jan 2015. It has been my daily-driver for 8 years now, and I'm finally working on building its replacement: an i7-14700k {or ks if they launch soon) on a z790 board. I'm going to keep the 5820/X99 system as an all-purpose home server. It should rock that job pretty well. The Asrock MoBo has 10 SATA 3 connectors for internal drives, + the 1TB 970 NVME M.2 drive I installed. Win 11, supposedly won't install on a 5820 system, but Win 10 is still viable, and should still run my PLEX server for a few more years. Unless either MS or PLEX screws that up with an "update", of course...
Great cpu. I had mine for about 4 years I believe then sold it and got a 3700x at the time (now on a 7600x which yes has 2 less cores is much faster in gaming and gives me basically the same multithreaded performance once overclocked).
I think you actually did a great upgrade path, because you switched to AM4 just as your Intel 5th became a bit of a bottleneck, and also because while you didn't squeeze the AM4 platform to its max with a 5800X3D or 5900X/5950X, you probably sold the 3700X and platform while it was still worth some fine, and entered the AM5 platform which, if history repeats itself, will be a great place to be 4-6 years from now for a cheap CPU-only upgrade. If I didn't have myself a 5900X on a high-end, feature-filled AM4 Mobo (MSI Ace Max, 6x m.2 PCIe4 and an X8 GPU slot !!!), I would have probably moved. My major gripe with AM5 is really the AWFUL price of premium motherboards, even today...
@@cldpt I actually gave the 3700x system to my mother for her media consumption and we browsing as my old laptop was getting a bit weak for even full hd streaming lol.
Also I did the upgrade at the time because I thought my 3700x system was failing (was actually a corrupt windows install causing issues was my fault though for being so eager to upgrade I never even thought to do a fresh install until after I had already done so but it still ended up being a good choice anyway because my mother really needed a new computer that wasn't so sluggish like the laptop I had) so I ended up getting the new zen 4 pc at a terrible time tbh haha. Prices were at their worst at the time but I also don't regret it either I got a great system and also bought it with exactly what you mentioned in mind. I can upgrade the cpu in a couple generations from now all on the same socket and most likely see some large gains in efficiency and performance without the need to get a whole new pc essentially. I'm only really interested in getting a new gpu currently when the next gen stuff comes out if it's good enough as I recently upgraded my monitor to a 4k 160hz screen and my 6900xt can't keep up but nothing a setting dropped or two can't fix anyway :P.@@cldpt
Not sure why but I seriously look forward to your videos. I really appreciate the mindset of these parts being used as a normal person just trying to play some video games. It's a nice difference from a lot of channels which seem to mostly use the top of the line components, which ends up being quite unreasonable for the average gamer, especially college students or working class who can't or don't want to spend loads on a system. Keep it up RGinHD!!
Nothing better than enjoing ice cream with your videos, just opened youtube and this video popped out. I do really like watching these old beasts doing their best even so many years after they've been released.
I had actually bought a fully decked out system on eBay for my boyfriend for $150 a week ago. Had the 5820k, 16gb of ram, 512gb SSD and 1050ti that I just replaced. I was quite surprised with its performance and I'm actually super jealous that it's his system.
@@НААТthe X99 motherboard by itself for these CPU cost $150. You have no idea what you are talking about. Seems like a fine deal to me all parts together would cost almost $300 if bought used. Do some research before spewing bs
@@Ashayiiiit's not that massive of a bottleneck... AMD drivers are a lot better with CPU bound scenarios. There will be a bottleneck for sure. But it's not going to make games unplayable.
@@rebl900 I've been there my rx6600xt was being bottlenecked by 9400f with 2666 cl15 ram so bad Even at 1440p there was bottleneck, this cpu is way weaker than that
I used a 5820k for almost 6 years. 2015 to 2021. At the time, I thought I would NEVER need to upgrade. It only started to show it's age when I was trying to get 144+ fps in competitive titles. For 60fps gaming, this thing still kicks butt!! Great video.
I was just getting into building relevant period pc's when these were the bee knees, I always wondered how they'd hold up considering they weren't mainstream. Never took the time to look back on 'em, this should be a great watch :)
I'm still actively using mine and I bought it 9 years ago. Still holds up. I have it paired with a 3080 😆. Playing CS2 with 300 fps and a 240hz 1080p monitor. I use the 3080 to play some games on a 4K TV. I also got the 3080 for other reasons too.
Likewise, still running mine stock as my main daily driver. I've replaced the 32GB of mismatched 2400MHz RAM with a matched set of 2666MHz, and upgraded the GPU from the original GTX 970 I used in the build back in 2014 with a 4070 FE. Together, they're running most of the games I've tried at 4K ultra settings at about 60 FPS. Some games (e.g. Doom Eternal) do better, some do worse (e.g. Watchdogs Legion). I do have a CPU/mobo upgrade in mind, but I'm waiting to see if its modern-day equivalent - Sapphire Rapids/W790 - gets a significant price reduction: my 5820K+X99 board only cost a few tens of pounds more than a 4790K+Z97 board back in the day thanks to a rebate (however, the new DDR4 cost more than established DDR3 that would have been required by the 4790K) - far closer in price to mainstream CPUs and motherboards than Sapphire Rapids/W790 where the motherboards alone are currently £900-1200!
@@Hoop27 I'm grateful to past-me, who spec'ed an 850W PSU in case he went SLI! As far as I can see, even a 13700K is only 2-3 times faster in single-threaded tasks - not much progress for 8 years, when I used to upgrade every 3 years for 5 times better performance!
I still run this and bought it to have a 10 year PC. 2 years to go and I will say it was the best purchase I've ever made. Threw 64GB of ram and a 1080ti on it and it's does anything and everything I need.
I have one since the summer of 2015, the build is still as I bought it 8 years ago and I use it everyday as I started doing 8 years ago. Man, you are making me feel like it's 2015 all over again and that's concernely nostalgic :D
@@Freakstylez69 My trusty old GTX960 2GB is still in there. I thought of swapping it for something else in 2020, and waited for the 3000 series but we all know how it went unfortunately... On the other hand I'm not that much of a gamer, so that 960 is actually powerful enough for my use, and I still enjoy using it
Had one for 4.5 years, until the replacement x99 deluxe for my original x99 deluxe also died... Haswell E was a great cpu gen, but the boards were not keeping up. And that's why finding a working one nowadays isn't all that easy. Still, a super enjoyable platform to OC with.
@@nimroderyASUS entire business model is built around cheaping out lol, hated them for my Zenfone 5 that had a bulging battery after 2yrs of use and my motherboard that came with a failing sound chip. Honestly most of Computer-related companies are kind of a scam, some being scammy even with their high end stuff, as the entire industry is comparable to money printing.
My X99-A II is still doing well besides the M.2 slot acting up and causing my SSD to overheat. I even OC'ed my 5820K to 4.6 Ghz and it's only like 12% slower than an R5 3600 in multi-core and single-core, and it's better than an R7 2700x. I also play at 1440P most of the time so I don't need to worry about CPU bottlenecks nearly as much.
I still have a 3930k running. Just as an info- back then the socket2011 was brandnew with the 6core CPUs but then later only had the 4xxx generation CPUs and some Xeon to be compatible. Also, those weren't worth the upgrade. Then with the 5xxx CPUs the new Socket 2011V3 was released. Pissed quite some people off😅
Damn, that still holds up pretty well. I really wanted one 'back in the day' (has it really been 9 years already??). The small Intel ad on the ethernet ports at 0:55 "Great Capability" wow, marketing lvl 1000
As a game developer, I've literally been using this CPU for 7 years paired with an RTX 3080 (for just under the latter half of that) and they've both been super troopers. While my home system is much more robust, at least CPU-wise (7700X & 6800 XT), I've still nary an issue with the old girl.
Very nice video. I didn't know till recently that these "enthusiast" i7 processors were 6-core/12-thread CPUs. I love the flowers in the background in the beginning of this video. I really appreciate the outdoor footage you provide in your reviews. It is nice to watch and helps soothe a miserable work day for me along with learning about more older hardware I can now afford.
@@drill_fiend1097 Yes, if the truth be told we "owe" AMD for stepping it up against Intel and forcing the mainstream CPU industry past 4 Cores / 8 Threads. We'd most likely be looking at "14th Gen" Intel parts coming out soon with the same tired product stack of i3, i5 and i7s with 2C/4T, 4C/4T and 4C/8T respectively if not for Ryzen.
just ordered a 5820k for 28 euros, and im so excited :D. actually more excited than i was when i ordered my brand new Zen3 setup back then. last week i scored a deal on an (once) epic workstation for 230 euros: - 1080 ti founders edition - xeon 2630v4 10c/20t - max all core boost 2,4GHz (hence the 5820k as replacement) - Asus x99-a ii - 32 GB 2133 DDR4 - BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 850w platinum - Bequiet Dark Base 900 (man what a monstrosity)
I had one of these until 2019. It's still doing work in a used budget build I gifted a friend. We most recently beat RE5 in couch coop mode on it a couple weeks ago.
I just built a new PC over the last 2 months with an i9 14900k but this CPU is sitting in my old system which I'm still going to be using as a second pc. I really think I lucked out at the time since when I bought the 5820k for my first build in 2015, I wanted 6 cores to last me longer even though most users at the time were buying and recommending quad core cpus. I've also always overclocked it to 4.3ghz, could never get it completely stable at 4.4 but this is a great cpu and like you explain in the video it holds up very well to this day :)
Broadwell E overclocking is completely broken, but skylake X still holds up. If you're prepared to throw outrageous amounts of power at it and also have a plan for getting rid of all the heat
You should do a video about the 8-core i7 5960X, even though its 9 years old it still holds up well and can even go head to head with some more modern CPU's if you overclock it
Same CPU and same Mainboard as in the video and mine still works perfectly since 2016 have it running at 4.3 GHz except during summer when I just don't want this much heat output I couldn't believe back in the day that the 2400 MT/s DDR4 Corsair Vengance LPX Kit with CL12 existed that I ordered back in the day until I held it in my hands
i bought one of these when it was new ($550 aud !!!), along with 4x4gb 2400 ddr4 ($420 aud!!!) and used it all the way through to 2022 when i swapped it for a 12900k it was starting to show its age and the 4.2ghz all core oc i had wasnt really cutting it for modern games I could hit 4.7ghz at 1.35v but it would produce so much heat at that voltage. so i ran it daily at 4.2 1.12v served me well for 7 years. i really love that the x99 platform has such fully featured motherboards. dual lan, bunch of usb ports, m.2 slots before it was a big thing, and the big selling point for me was the 28 pcie lanes which allowed 16x/8x sli AND an m.2
I'm still running a build with the I7-5820k and a GTX 1080 and use it daily without many issues. I'm starting to see the system fall below what I like to see so I will upgrade in the next 12-18 months. I've been very pleased with it!
On a mainboard with the "OC socket", you totally need to try and increase the L3 cache/ringbus frequency. Aim for CPU freq. minus 200Mhz. Haswell loves these tweaks and gets a significant frametime improvement (esp. the lows). Deactivating the Spectre and Meltdown software workarounds will yield another sizable improvement.
I had a 5930K at one point and that CPU absolutely RIPPED back in the day. I had two R9 290's in crossfire, both with full PCI-E X16 lanes, since the chip supported up to 40. Was a KILLER rig back in it's day!
I've had mine since Nov. '14 and it's still great for my use. I have it overclocked at 4.5Ghz and only just upgraded the ram to 32GB and the GPU to an RTX 3060 12GB. I did this to run an Index mainly for VRChat. I'm shocked how well it runs. I had to do a lot of tweaking to keep higher settings, but the extra effort was kind of fun and rewarding. The computer does sound like it's trying to blast off to the moon when running the VR though XD.
Loving these videos - Built my media server based on an i5 3470 that you reviewed some time ago - now I just had to go and get an i7-5820K from CEX for like £12.00. I live in Denmark so will pick it up later this year from my families house. To be fair when I got the i5 3470 for my media server the MB was a tad expensive but then it did come with 6 SATA ports, believe it was a P8H77-VE LE from Asus, prices seem to have dropped now, but it cost me a pretty penny - keep up the good work
Since you have x99 motherboard, i would love to see e5 2696v3 18 core 36 threads 3.8ghz cpu review here :) can tell right away, Do turbo boostunlock mode and lock cores to 10 core 20 threads, it will hold 3.8ghz on all 10cores. And massive 45mb of l3 cache should do a trick
hey that was the chip i was running until about two years ago with no issue whatsoever. and then i upgraded that haswell chip to the broadwell offering on the exact same mobo and i'm good to this day!
I had one when everyone was using Haswell 4770ks. Then my brother and dad bought them. X99 had some quirks being the first platform on ddr4 and the frequency being 2400mhz was pretty slow but pairrd with 2x 980tis on a Asus x99 deluxe it was a monster under a 360mm loop. 4.7 all core at less than 1.32v! Truelly golden sample that. Now I'm on 5900x with twice the cores and threads doing 5ghz all core!
I used to have the 5930K cpu and it was an amazing gaming cpu with an MSI Gaming 7 motherboard (purchased 2017 for $220 AUD) including quad channel DDR4 2400 which was a steel as the seller needed an urgent sale as they were moving overseas. I had it until early 2022 before I sold it on. Definitely a great platform to tinker with. Intels architecture at the time was amazing and still is comparatively speaking to many newer platforms.
Great video, still a bit of life in the 5820K yet. Actually own two of them, one spare and the other in an asus X99 A II board. Unfortunately though both of the 16gb quad channel ram kits I have only show 12gb in bios.
Thank you for covering this. This CPU was pretty hot for Streamers back when Overwatch was released because of the Multicore-Capabilities. This with the niche 6850k always were fascinating to me if it weren't for the high platform cost, as you mentioned
I hope you're planning to thoroughly benchmark Starfield! Maybe build a PC with its minimum specs and see how well it runs. Or even test the 750 ti on it!
This is exactly why my 4790k @ 4.4 all core paired w/ 32gb ddr3 c10 2400mhz lasted me until 2020 - I also run 4k so the cpu mattered even less for *most* games. Haswell based cpu's are still VERY usable paired with decent memory.
Yep, I am actually still using my 4770K-based build from 2014 as my primary PC and have not yet had any desire or need to build a new system. It is something of a curse, in that it has aged so well I find it hard to find issues or shortcomings to justify a new build.
Ran a 5820k in my primary PC for nearly a decade before building a new PC. Paired with an RTX 3070 yields about a perfect match in CPU & GPU utilization, in most cases. The RTX 3070 Ti is a great pairing, as it isn't CPU bottlenecked in too many games. Also, the PCIe x16 bandwidth on the GPU no longer exists on modern 60 class cards (and this CPU needs all the help it can get). Truly a great CPU for it's time.
I ran one of these in my HTPC for a while OC'd to 4GHz after jumping to 8th gen Intel. It played 4K HDR and did some mild gaming with zero issues. Really no reason for a lot of people to stop using this chip if they can just slap a newer GPU in and play most games fine. I did however replace mine with my 8th gen 8600K when I moved up. Faster overall chip for less power usage. HTPC puts out less heat and stays quieter.
I bought this one way back when on sale for $280 and god that was the best deal of my entire life, it chugged on happily until 2020 when the motherboard blew up. I decided a new system would be more worth it than tracking down an outdated, used, rare X99 board, and sold it for $80.
I'm still using one of these - it gets the job done. I also have an 8 core i7 5960x running at 4.5GHz - these are only 35gbp from CEX right now and might make for an interesting future video against a modern 8 core chip.
I think these have AVX2, which makes them quite viable even today. The key is to get the clock speed as high as possible for those games that rely heavily on a single, high performance, thread for performance.
PLEASE take a look at the 5960X. 8 cores, 16 threads, amazing OC capabilities and loads of PCIE lanes and cache so even today it can easily rival a Ryzen 5600X but for commonly around £40-£70!
I pined for this CPU back in the day. I had a 2600K and didn't upgrade for a while after purchasing that thing. I wanted the two extra cores and the two extra memory channels, but back then it was just a luxury and too expensive to justify the cost. I wonder what other CPUs are available for x99 platforms now on the cheap. Hmm... X79 had cheap and powerful Xeon CPUs that were relevant not so long ago. Hmm....
I am still rocking my 4770 i7 Haswell from 2014 with a GTX1080 for 1080p gaming, and i have no reason to change any of it as long as it continues to run perfectly......4k gaming wise i now leave that to the next gen consoles as PC wise 4k gaming is now just way too expensive to justify.
I used to have an X99 deluxe and an I7 5820K and a couple of months later I've got a 12 core Xeon, I lovbed that PC, I shoudl have keep it, BTW quad channel RAM is really goodwith design programs
Your cpu is sitting at 75% usage in TLOU part 1, on my old machine I had an 8700 which was screaming at 100% usage while struggling at 40ish fps. Crazy how fast the 5820k must be
I used to have one of those until about a year ago before i upgraded to a ryzen 9 3950X. Its a really good CPU even today and it can still do everything you want. That CPU was the one i was using for my streams and video editing and its a very good CPU. Needless to say, if you can get one then get one, you will be suprised what it can do (i had mine overclocked at 4.5Ghz stable which is nothing for that because some have gone as high as 4.8 and 4.9 and im sure you can get 5Ghz if you had the right mobo and got lucky with the silicon lottery
Been running an i7-5820k @ 4.3 GHz for 8 years now. 3 years as my PC, and another 5 in my sibling's gaming PC. The MSI X99 board has been RMA'd twice at this point though XD
My i7-5960x + RX570 system started off as a i7-5820K with a basic GPU. Clocked the 5820K to 4.5 GHZ and was a daily machine. Finally bought the 5960x because it was pretty cheap 2nd hand and clocked that to 4.4 GHZ Disadvantages now is the high power draw. I dont have a need to upgrade to a newer platform.
Love the x99 platform. Had a 5960x as my main gaming CPU up until a couple of months ago. Just upgraded to a ryzen 7700x and it's not such a big upgrade to be honest; 10 to 40% depending on the game with an RTX 3080. The 5960x lives on as my new file server, a job that the x99 platform was practically made for.
I have the same mobo with i7 5960x clocked to 4.6ghz and rtx 3080. At 1440p there is barely any bottleneck if any. I had 12400 on my second system and i cant notice the difference between them tbh. Also cinebench r20 got me 4.1k points
My main gaming rig uses the same LGA 2011-v3 socket with an i7-6900K and it still runs everything wonderfully. I upgraded it recently to 64GB (8x8GB) of DDR4 2400MHz server ram I got for super cheap, and upgraded the boot drive to a 2TB NVMe SSD on the motherboard. It pairs well with a GTX 1080, but it's nice to know that I could still upgrade to a RX 6000 or RTX 3000 series GPU at some point and still not be bottle-necked by the CPU.
With an overclock and oc the ram as well and you're good for easy 120 locked a 3090 class card is fine and will max out the card basically always only adl rpl is an actually upgrade
I paid 460 bucks for my 6800k. About 4 years later I couldn't even get 100 anymore 😅 Well it was great when new, it just devoured my video encodes at the time.
@@RandomGaminginHDIf you have issues with Ocing mem let me know I daily this and have worked out all the quirks with x99 if you have a good 5820k it'll do 4.7ghz at 1.35v also go into tweakers paradise enable haswel sfr and then you'll be able to push the ring to 4.5ghz 1.35v ring
I'm still running my 5820K with an R9 390 and, even though it's slowly losing frames, I am unsure if I need to upgrade anything on it. Maybe an RTX 3060 ti like on your rig could be a way to breathe some new life into my gaming rig.
Hmm, have a X99 system but its got the i7 5960x she runs happily at 4.5 8 cores and kinda crazy but its paired with a RTX 3090 (water cooled), and yeah its still pretty mean, the thing though if I overclock the CPU then I cant touch the mem timings, its a trade-off I can live with and doesn't seem to bother the system.
Still using it to this day since 2015, running on a MSI X99S SLI PLUS water cooled running between 3.8Ghz and 4.4Ghz (depending if I need the extra power, but it does get hot even on water). Sill got games that use my Windows 7 partition that work better there than Win 10/11. I am planning on throwing 64GB of RAM at it to give it some extra life. Right now with SSD, RTX and 32GB RAM is still coming in the top 10 of ALL the benchmarks.
I found a Killer deal on a x299 ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega MOBO, opened box complete with all the accessories ... for 150 Bones! I've always wanted a super high-end EATX Rampage Extreme motherboard. My question is, what would be a good CPU to run with it that's not expensive AF? Is it even worth it? Even if its just to get that beautiful work of art motherboard, its so bad ass.
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It's still an excellent CPU nearly 10 years later. I've got one of these running in a server after I retired it from my main gaming rig a few years ago
I still have it in my gaming rig, haven't had the money to upgrade, still doing great!
better to not upgrade since todays games are unoptimized. Keep this great cpu. @@Krzys_D
It has been in my gaming rig since launch as well. I'm always surprised at just how well it can throw its weight around, even today.
I'm getting ready to do the same thing with the 5820 rig I built in Jan 2015. It has been my daily-driver for 8 years now, and I'm finally working on building its replacement: an i7-14700k {or ks if they launch soon) on a z790 board. I'm going to keep the 5820/X99 system as an all-purpose home server. It should rock that job pretty well. The Asrock MoBo has 10 SATA 3 connectors for internal drives, + the 1TB 970 NVME M.2 drive I installed. Win 11, supposedly won't install on a 5820 system, but Win 10 is still viable, and should still run my PLEX server for a few more years. Unless either MS or PLEX screws that up with an "update", of course...
Im still running that same motherboard with a i7-5960X. Bought it new in 2015 for work stuff. It still holds up pretty well!
I ran it with 2x980Ti in SLI. Replaced nowadays with a 6700XT!
@@ToTheGAMESbut you can't run windows 11 on it. No use.
@@LanaaAmoricl there’s already ways to get past the required cpus
@@LanaaAmoryou can easily bypass tpm check and windows11 sucks anyways, 10 is better
@@LanaaAmor W11 is W10 revamped.
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Great cpu. I had mine for about 4 years I believe then sold it and got a 3700x at the time (now on a 7600x which yes has 2 less cores is much faster in gaming and gives me basically the same multithreaded performance once overclocked).
I think you actually did a great upgrade path, because you switched to AM4 just as your Intel 5th became a bit of a bottleneck, and also because while you didn't squeeze the AM4 platform to its max with a 5800X3D or 5900X/5950X, you probably sold the 3700X and platform while it was still worth some fine, and entered the AM5 platform which, if history repeats itself, will be a great place to be 4-6 years from now for a cheap CPU-only upgrade. If I didn't have myself a 5900X on a high-end, feature-filled AM4 Mobo (MSI Ace Max, 6x m.2 PCIe4 and an X8 GPU slot !!!), I would have probably moved. My major gripe with AM5 is really the AWFUL price of premium motherboards, even today...
@@cldpt I actually gave the 3700x system to my mother for her media consumption and we browsing as my old laptop was getting a bit weak for even full hd streaming lol.
Also I did the upgrade at the time because I thought my 3700x system was failing (was actually a corrupt windows install causing issues was my fault though for being so eager to upgrade I never even thought to do a fresh install until after I had already done so but it still ended up being a good choice anyway because my mother really needed a new computer that wasn't so sluggish like the laptop I had) so I ended up getting the new zen 4 pc at a terrible time tbh haha.
Prices were at their worst at the time but I also don't regret it either I got a great system and also bought it with exactly what you mentioned in mind. I can upgrade the cpu in a couple generations from now all on the same socket and most likely see some large gains in efficiency and performance without the need to get a whole new pc essentially. I'm only really interested in getting a new gpu currently when the next gen stuff comes out if it's good enough as I recently upgraded my monitor to a 4k 160hz screen and my 6900xt can't keep up but nothing a setting dropped or two can't fix anyway :P.@@cldpt
Compared to the 5960x ocd in gaming it's on par with zen3 and faster than zen2 by a lot
7600X has more MC performance than a 3700x. A 3700x and 5600x will match pretty closely in MC actually.
Not sure why but I seriously look forward to your videos. I really appreciate the mindset of these parts being used as a normal person just trying to play some video games. It's a nice difference from a lot of channels which seem to mostly use the top of the line components, which ends up being quite unreasonable for the average gamer, especially college students or working class who can't or don't want to spend loads on a system.
Keep it up RGinHD!!
Amen
Yes, videos from a pragmatic gamer's perspective. Very interesting indeed!
Nothing better than enjoing ice cream with your videos, just opened youtube and this video popped out. I do really like watching these old beasts doing their best even so many years after they've been released.
Awesome. Thanks! Enjoy your ice cream! 😁
@@RandomGaminginHD Thank you, ahah.
I had actually bought a fully decked out system on eBay for my boyfriend for $150 a week ago. Had the 5820k, 16gb of ram, 512gb SSD and 1050ti that I just replaced. I was quite surprised with its performance and I'm actually super jealous that it's his system.
150$ for those specs yeeeezus you just robbed that person for their computer lol
150 for those specs are a bit much for current age id say. But still a nice find
I so so want to make a kitchen joke😅😅😅
@@НААТthe X99 motherboard by itself for these CPU cost $150. You have no idea what you are talking about. Seems like a fine deal to me all parts together would cost almost $300 if bought used. Do some research before spewing bs
@@genichiroashina6372how were you going to make a kitchen joke? It wouldn't even make sense considering OP is a dude.
I still use this CPU and it still runs great! Originally paired it with a GTX 980 but upgraded to a RX 6700 (non-XT) last year
That's a massive bottlenecked at 1080p and even 30 40 % bottleneck at 1440p , maybe 4k gaming at 55 fps would be suitable
@kolopso8654 not true, it's only a 8-12% bottleneck depending if it's overclocked
@@Ashayiiiit's not that massive of a bottleneck... AMD drivers are a lot better with CPU bound scenarios. There will be a bottleneck for sure. But it's not going to make games unplayable.
@@rebl900 I've been there my rx6600xt was being bottlenecked by 9400f with 2666 cl15 ram so bad
Even at 1440p there was bottleneck, this cpu is way weaker than that
@@yeetus59 never said it's unplayable, it's just wasted potential
I used a 5820k for almost 6 years. 2015 to 2021. At the time, I thought I would NEVER need to upgrade. It only started to show it's age when I was trying to get 144+ fps in competitive titles. For 60fps gaming, this thing still kicks butt!! Great video.
I was just getting into building relevant period pc's when these were the bee knees, I always wondered how they'd hold up considering they weren't mainstream. Never took the time to look back on 'em, this should be a great watch :)
Just like the i9-13900K now, wonder where that'll be in 9 years time
@@JordanRichardson9 Probably worthless once they release LK-99 based CPUs that don't require heatsinks
@@nicekeyboardalan6972 True
Have that exact same board and cpu in my spare machine. Paired with a 1080ti, and 32gb 2666 memory in quad channel.
I'm still actively using mine and I bought it 9 years ago. Still holds up.
I have it paired with a 3080 😆. Playing CS2 with 300 fps and a 240hz 1080p monitor.
I use the 3080 to play some games on a 4K TV. I also got the 3080 for other reasons too.
Still running my 5820k at 4.3. with 32 gb ram and no issues. Have got almost 10 years out of it now.
Likewise, still running mine stock as my main daily driver. I've replaced the 32GB of mismatched 2400MHz RAM with a matched set of 2666MHz, and upgraded the GPU from the original GTX 970 I used in the build back in 2014 with a 4070 FE. Together, they're running most of the games I've tried at 4K ultra settings at about 60 FPS. Some games (e.g. Doom Eternal) do better, some do worse (e.g. Watchdogs Legion). I do have a CPU/mobo upgrade in mind, but I'm waiting to see if its modern-day equivalent - Sapphire Rapids/W790 - gets a significant price reduction: my 5820K+X99 board only cost a few tens of pounds more than a 4790K+Z97 board back in the day thanks to a rebate (however, the new DDR4 cost more than established DDR3 that would have been required by the 4790K) - far closer in price to mainstream CPUs and motherboards than Sapphire Rapids/W790 where the motherboards alone are currently £900-1200!
@@cowbutt6 I have to eventually cave in on the GPU too. The 980Ti's in SLI are starting to show their age a bit.
@@Hoop27 I'm grateful to past-me, who spec'ed an 850W PSU in case he went SLI!
As far as I can see, even a 13700K is only 2-3 times faster in single-threaded tasks - not much progress for 8 years, when I used to upgrade every 3 years for 5 times better performance!
I still run this and bought it to have a 10 year PC. 2 years to go and I will say it was the best purchase I've ever made. Threw 64GB of ram and a 1080ti on it and it's does anything and everything I need.
I have one since the summer of 2015, the build is still as I bought it 8 years ago and I use it everyday as I started doing 8 years ago. Man, you are making me feel like it's 2015 all over again and that's concernely nostalgic :D
What gpu are you rocking with that i7?
@@Freakstylez69 My trusty old GTX960 2GB is still in there. I thought of swapping it for something else in 2020, and waited for the 3000 series but we all know how it went unfortunately...
On the other hand I'm not that much of a gamer, so that 960 is actually powerful enough for my use, and I still enjoy using it
Fantastic video. I love this platform. Excited for the 6 core comparison video!
I replaced my 2500K with a 12700KS 18 months ago after about 10 years of use.
Loved that CPU until the end!
I still use one in my desktop
Had one for 4.5 years, until the replacement x99 deluxe for my original x99 deluxe also died... Haswell E was a great cpu gen, but the boards were not keeping up. And that's why finding a working one nowadays isn't all that easy. Still, a super enjoyable platform to OC with.
Well the ASUS boards weren't keeping up. Still using my Taichi (which I bought when my ASUS died).
@@nimroderyASUS entire business model is built around cheaping out lol, hated them for my Zenfone 5 that had a bulging battery after 2yrs of use and my motherboard that came with a failing sound chip. Honestly most of Computer-related companies are kind of a scam, some being scammy even with their high end stuff, as the entire industry is comparable to money printing.
My X99-A II is still doing well besides the M.2 slot acting up and causing my SSD to overheat. I even OC'ed my 5820K to 4.6 Ghz and it's only like 12% slower than an R5 3600 in multi-core and single-core, and it's better than an R7 2700x. I also play at 1440P most of the time so I don't need to worry about CPU bottlenecks nearly as much.
I still have a 3930k running. Just as an info- back then the socket2011 was brandnew with the 6core CPUs but then later only had the 4xxx generation CPUs and some Xeon to be compatible. Also, those weren't worth the upgrade. Then with the 5xxx CPUs the new Socket 2011V3 was released. Pissed quite some people off😅
idk i got v3 from the start only bc my other board died AsRock z68
AMD was inspired by this later on.
Outstanding video! ;-)
Still using and watching this video on my 5820 right now. Runs great with no issues.
Was Rocking a 5820k and a gtx 1070 up until late 2021, gave it to my younger brother and it still kicks a$$ to this day.
Damn, that still holds up pretty well. I really wanted one 'back in the day' (has it really been 9 years already??). The small Intel ad on the ethernet ports at 0:55 "Great Capability" wow, marketing lvl 1000
As a game developer, I've literally been using this CPU for 7 years paired with an RTX 3080 (for just under the latter half of that) and they've both been super troopers. While my home system is much more robust, at least CPU-wise (7700X & 6800 XT), I've still nary an issue with the old girl.
Very nice video. I didn't know till recently that these "enthusiast" i7 processors were 6-core/12-thread CPUs. I love the flowers in the background in the beginning of this video. I really appreciate the outdoor footage you provide in your reviews. It is nice to watch and helps soothe a miserable work day for me along with learning about more older hardware I can now afford.
AMD pretty much made more-than-quad-core mainstream by introducing Ryzen series. Too bad that didn't mean more PCIE lanes!
@@drill_fiend1097 Yes, if the truth be told we "owe" AMD for stepping it up against Intel and forcing the mainstream CPU industry past 4 Cores / 8 Threads.
We'd most likely be looking at "14th Gen" Intel parts coming out soon with the same tired product stack of i3, i5 and i7s with 2C/4T, 4C/4T and 4C/8T respectively if not for Ryzen.
just ordered a 5820k for 28 euros, and im so excited :D. actually more excited than i was when i ordered my brand new Zen3 setup back then.
last week i scored a deal on an (once) epic workstation for 230 euros:
- 1080 ti founders edition
- xeon 2630v4 10c/20t - max all core boost 2,4GHz (hence the 5820k as replacement)
- Asus x99-a ii
- 32 GB 2133 DDR4
- BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 850w platinum
- Bequiet Dark Base 900 (man what a monstrosity)
I had one of these until 2019. It's still doing work in a used budget build I gifted a friend. We most recently beat RE5 in couch coop mode on it a couple weeks ago.
I just built a new PC over the last 2 months with an i9 14900k but this CPU is sitting in my old system which I'm still going to be using as a second pc.
I really think I lucked out at the time since when I bought the 5820k for my first build in 2015, I wanted 6 cores to last me longer even though most users at the time were buying and recommending quad core cpus.
I've also always overclocked it to 4.3ghz, could never get it completely stable at 4.4 but this is a great cpu and like you explain in the video it holds up very well to this day :)
My first CPU. Bought a prebuilt from my friend with a 5820k and a gtx 970 as my first PC. Now I've built a couple rigs so that was a great starter
still running mine, and it's doing well
This chip is the first one I ever bought, when I made my 1st pc. It still does extremely well, considering its almost 10 years old now.
love this channel!
It gives me hope for my i7 8700!
those were seriously ahead of their time, it would be interesting to see something like 6950X or even 7980XE, if they are completely obsolete now
Broadwell E overclocking is completely broken, but skylake X still holds up. If you're prepared to throw outrageous amounts of power at it and also have a plan for getting rid of all the heat
@givemeajackson bios update on asus boards fixed overclocking on broadwell e in 2018 or 2019. Using a i7 6800k at 4ghz with no issues
X99 is zen3 in gaming basically when you overclock x99 x299 is hit it miss the mesh hurts
@@TheIverconoverclock to 4.3 and raise the ring clock it'll boost you kins nd oc your ram it makes a massive difference
The only problem would be motherboards
You should do a video about the 8-core i7 5960X, even though its 9 years old it still holds up well and can even go head to head with some more modern CPU's if you overclock it
Check out the good old gamer about the 5960x hes done a good few videos and when ocd properly it'll match zen3 easy most of the time
Yep pretty sure with a good overclock it beats the Ryzen 7 2700x and just a little slower than the 3700x.
@@yeetus59 in gaming it destroys a 2700x and beats a 3700x it's on par with the 5700x in most games
Same CPU and same Mainboard as in the video and mine still works perfectly since 2016
have it running at 4.3 GHz except during summer when I just don't want this much heat output
I couldn't believe back in the day that the 2400 MT/s DDR4 Corsair Vengance LPX Kit with CL12 existed that I ordered back in the day until I held it in my hands
i bought one of these when it was new ($550 aud !!!), along with 4x4gb 2400 ddr4 ($420 aud!!!) and used it all the way through to 2022 when i swapped it for a 12900k
it was starting to show its age and the 4.2ghz all core oc i had wasnt really cutting it for modern games
I could hit 4.7ghz at 1.35v but it would produce so much heat at that voltage. so i ran it daily at 4.2 1.12v
served me well for 7 years. i really love that the x99 platform has such fully featured motherboards. dual lan, bunch of usb ports, m.2 slots before it was a big thing, and the big selling point for me was the 28 pcie lanes which allowed 16x/8x sli AND an m.2
I'm still running a build with the I7-5820k and a GTX 1080 and use it daily without many issues. I'm starting to see the system fall below what I like to see so I will upgrade in the next 12-18 months. I've been very pleased with it!
I love drooling over this stuff I also couldn't afford back in the day
On a mainboard with the "OC socket", you totally need to try and increase the L3 cache/ringbus frequency. Aim for CPU freq. minus 200Mhz. Haswell loves these tweaks and gets a significant frametime improvement (esp. the lows). Deactivating the Spectre and Meltdown software workarounds will yield another sizable improvement.
Will try, thanks!
All Asus boards have the oc socket so ring oc with Haswell sfr in tweaker paradise can clock to 4.5 on the ring
The time Intel actually provided decent coolers.
They still make decent coolers, its just that cpus got more powerfull.
Who even uses the stock cooler? No one in their right mind would use a stock cooler nowadays
@@arithmetic7105thats the point..
This CPU did NOT come with a cooler.
I thought intel coolers used to be worse but cpus just got hotter
Make sure to review the i7 5960x and try some over clocking would ya.
Will do!
I had a 5930K at one point and that CPU absolutely RIPPED back in the day. I had two R9 290's in crossfire, both with full PCI-E X16 lanes, since the chip supported up to 40. Was a KILLER rig back in it's day!
Great video!!!! x299 next maybe?
I've had mine since Nov. '14 and it's still great for my use. I have it overclocked at 4.5Ghz and only just upgraded the ram to 32GB and the GPU to an RTX 3060 12GB. I did this to run an Index mainly for VRChat. I'm shocked how well it runs. I had to do a lot of tweaking to keep higher settings, but the extra effort was kind of fun and rewarding. The computer does sound like it's trying to blast off to the moon when running the VR though XD.
Loving these videos - Built my media server based on an i5 3470 that you reviewed some time ago - now I just had to go and get an i7-5820K from CEX for like £12.00. I live in Denmark so will pick it up later this year from my families house. To be fair when I got the i5 3470 for my media server the MB was a tad expensive but then it did come with 6 SATA ports, believe it was a P8H77-VE LE from Asus, prices seem to have dropped now, but it cost me a pretty penny - keep up the good work
I still have an X99 rig. i7 6850K - 32GB RAM - 1660 Super. Friends and family often use it for gaming when they come over.
Hey this was my first build in October 2014! What a monster at the time
try a i7 6950x on that board
Since you have x99 motherboard, i would love to see e5 2696v3 18 core 36 threads 3.8ghz cpu review here :) can tell right away, Do turbo boostunlock mode and lock cores to 10 core 20 threads, it will hold 3.8ghz on all 10cores. And massive 45mb of l3 cache should do a trick
Ah will take a look! Thanks!
hey that was the chip i was running until about two years ago with no issue whatsoever. and then i upgraded that haswell chip to the broadwell offering on the exact same mobo and i'm good to this day!
Yup, I still have (and use) my X99 board and 5820k, but I did pop in a 6950x a year or two ago for about $75 🥳🥳
Good video man similar to my i78700t 6c/12th 4ghz in my optiplex micro. This gives me a great idea of what cards to pair it with 🎉
I had one when everyone was using Haswell 4770ks. Then my brother and dad bought them. X99 had some quirks being the first platform on ddr4 and the frequency being 2400mhz was pretty slow but pairrd with 2x 980tis on a Asus x99 deluxe it was a monster under a 360mm loop. 4.7 all core at less than 1.32v! Truelly golden sample that. Now I'm on 5900x with twice the cores and threads doing 5ghz all core!
Never thought of that..... basically the 4790k is the 4770ks
I used to have the 5930K cpu and it was an amazing gaming cpu with an MSI Gaming 7 motherboard (purchased 2017 for $220 AUD) including quad channel DDR4 2400 which was a steel as the seller needed an urgent sale as they were moving overseas. I had it until early 2022 before I sold it on. Definitely a great platform to tinker with. Intels architecture at the time was amazing and still is comparatively speaking to many newer platforms.
Great video, still a bit of life in the 5820K yet. Actually own two of them, one spare and the other in an asus X99 A II board. Unfortunately though both of the 16gb quad channel ram kits I have only show 12gb in bios.
I have it since february 2016 :D. Great cpu, great temperatures also, even in overclock.
I bought one of these back in 2014 and I’m still using it today with an RTX 2080 Ti Strix OC.
Thank you for covering this. This CPU was pretty hot for Streamers back when Overwatch was released because of the Multicore-Capabilities. This with the niche 6850k always were fascinating to me if it weren't for the high platform cost, as you mentioned
6900k - 1080ti still going strong
I hope you're planning to thoroughly benchmark Starfield!
Maybe build a PC with its minimum specs and see how well it runs. Or even test the 750 ti on it!
👍
Starfield
X99 is a fantastic home server platform, especially with how cheap the 2011-3 Xeons are
This is exactly why my 4790k @ 4.4 all core paired w/ 32gb ddr3 c10 2400mhz lasted me until 2020 - I also run 4k so the cpu mattered even less for *most* games. Haswell based cpu's are still VERY usable paired with decent memory.
Yep, I am actually still using my 4770K-based build from 2014 as my primary PC and have not yet had any desire or need to build a new system. It is something of a curse, in that it has aged so well I find it hard to find issues or shortcomings to justify a new build.
yes still rocking it today, and no urge to update it jet.
Ran a 5820k in my primary PC for nearly a decade before building a new PC. Paired with an RTX 3070 yields about a perfect match in CPU & GPU utilization, in most cases.
The RTX 3070 Ti is a great pairing, as it isn't CPU bottlenecked in too many games. Also, the PCIe x16 bandwidth on the GPU no longer exists on modern 60 class cards (and this CPU needs all the help it can get).
Truly a great CPU for it's time.
I ran one of these in my HTPC for a while OC'd to 4GHz after jumping to 8th gen Intel. It played 4K HDR and did some mild gaming with zero issues. Really no reason for a lot of people to stop using this chip if they can just slap a newer GPU in and play most games fine. I did however replace mine with my 8th gen 8600K when I moved up. Faster overall chip for less power usage. HTPC puts out less heat and stays quieter.
I had this CPU and loved it :) I undervolted it, and pushed the boost Clock to 4GHz
I bought this one way back when on sale for $280 and god that was the best deal of my entire life, it chugged on happily until 2020 when the motherboard blew up. I decided a new system would be more worth it than tracking down an outdated, used, rare X99 board, and sold it for $80.
Nice! The same CPU and Motherboard that I first started out with.
great CPU series; got my i7 5930K running @4.7Ghz with 32GB quad channel RAM @XMP 3200Mhz
I'm still using one of these - it gets the job done. I also have an 8 core i7 5960x running at 4.5GHz - these are only 35gbp from CEX right now and might make for an interesting future video against a modern 8 core chip.
I think these have AVX2, which makes them quite viable even today. The key is to get the clock speed as high as possible for those games that rely heavily on a single, high performance, thread for performance.
Them being Haswell-based there should be no issue getting them to 4.5 GHz and 4.7-4.8 all core being in range as well.
@@HappyBeezerStudios The J-Batch versions are the ones with a ton of overclocking headroom.
PLEASE take a look at the 5960X. 8 cores, 16 threads, amazing OC capabilities and loads of PCIE lanes and cache so even today it can easily rival a Ryzen 5600X but for commonly around £40-£70!
I pined for this CPU back in the day. I had a 2600K and didn't upgrade for a while after purchasing that thing. I wanted the two extra cores and the two extra memory channels, but back then it was just a luxury and too expensive to justify the cost. I wonder what other CPUs are available for x99 platforms now on the cheap. Hmm... X79 had cheap and powerful Xeon CPUs that were relevant not so long ago. Hmm....
I am still rocking my 4770 i7 Haswell from 2014 with a GTX1080 for 1080p gaming, and i have no reason to change any of it as long as it continues to run perfectly......4k gaming wise i now leave that to the next gen consoles as PC wise 4k gaming is now just way too expensive to justify.
This released around the time I first got into PC hardware. Basically my dream CPU at the time
And mine 😁
I used to have an X99 deluxe and an I7 5820K and a couple of months later I've got a 12 core Xeon, I lovbed that PC, I shoudl have keep it, BTW quad channel RAM is really goodwith design programs
Your cpu is sitting at 75% usage in TLOU part 1, on my old machine I had an 8700 which was screaming at 100% usage while struggling at 40ish fps. Crazy how fast the 5820k must be
had a system doing a 5820k and it didnt even bottleneck my 3080 , what a beast
I used to have one of those until about a year ago before i upgraded to a ryzen 9 3950X.
Its a really good CPU even today and it can still do everything you want. That CPU was the one i was using for my streams and video editing and its a very good CPU.
Needless to say, if you can get one then get one, you will be suprised what it can do (i had mine overclocked at 4.5Ghz stable which is nothing for that because some have gone as high as 4.8 and 4.9 and im sure you can get 5Ghz if you had the right mobo and got lucky with the silicon lottery
I bought this setup early 2015. And im not gonna change it until 2030.
8 years, still going strong as I am watching this...😁
😁
Been running an i7-5820k @ 4.3 GHz for 8 years now. 3 years as my PC, and another 5 in my sibling's gaming PC. The MSI X99 board has been RMA'd twice at this point though XD
My i7-5960x + RX570 system started off as a i7-5820K with a basic GPU.
Clocked the 5820K to 4.5 GHZ and was a daily machine.
Finally bought the 5960x because it was pretty cheap 2nd hand and clocked that to 4.4 GHZ
Disadvantages now is the high power draw.
I dont have a need to upgrade to a newer platform.
my i7 8700k and 2080 have been holding up fantastic.
and they are still well more than enough for most games, at 1440p
Love the x99 platform. Had a 5960x as my main gaming CPU up until a couple of months ago. Just upgraded to a ryzen 7700x and it's not such a big upgrade to be honest; 10 to 40% depending on the game with an RTX 3080.
The 5960x lives on as my new file server, a job that the x99 platform was practically made for.
I have the same mobo with i7 5960x clocked to 4.6ghz and rtx 3080. At 1440p there is barely any bottleneck if any. I had 12400 on my second system and i cant notice the difference between them tbh. Also cinebench r20 got me 4.1k points
My main gaming rig uses the same LGA 2011-v3 socket with an i7-6900K and it still runs everything wonderfully. I upgraded it recently to 64GB (8x8GB) of DDR4 2400MHz server ram I got for super cheap, and upgraded the boot drive to a 2TB NVMe SSD on the motherboard. It pairs well with a GTX 1080, but it's nice to know that I could still upgrade to a RX 6000 or RTX 3000 series GPU at some point and still not be bottle-necked by the CPU.
With an overclock and oc the ram as well and you're good for easy 120 locked a 3090 class card is fine and will max out the card basically always only adl rpl is an actually upgrade
For me that dream cpu I always wanted to own was i7 2600k. I got it now, pushing 4.5ghz @ 1.365v.
Really nice results for such an old CPU.
A very expensive one when it came out, but you could use it 9 years and further. :D
Yeah really surprised me today
I'm still using it in my gaming rig.
I paid 460 bucks for my 6800k. About 4 years later I couldn't even get 100 anymore 😅 Well it was great when new, it just devoured my video encodes at the time.
@@RandomGaminginHDIf you have issues with Ocing mem let me know I daily this and have worked out all the quirks with x99 if you have a good 5820k it'll do 4.7ghz at 1.35v also go into tweakers paradise enable haswel sfr and then you'll be able to push the ring to 4.5ghz 1.35v ring
That's still my main rig.... i got it around 2015 ish yeah. still using it.
I'm still running my 5820K with an R9 390 and, even though it's slowly losing frames, I am unsure if I need to upgrade anything on it. Maybe an RTX 3060 ti like on your rig could be a way to breathe some new life into my gaming rig.
Mine is still cooking away. It’s been paired with a 1080ti for several years now, too.
Hmm, have a X99 system but its got the i7 5960x she runs happily at 4.5 8 cores and kinda crazy but its paired with a RTX 3090 (water cooled), and yeah its still pretty mean, the thing though if I overclock the CPU then I cant touch the mem timings, its a trade-off I can live with and doesn't seem to bother the system.
What why can't you touch timings I daily this chip at 3200 cl12
Cant wait to see how it emulates. AVX2 is the big reason that matters much!
Nice! X99 is a really solid platform even in 2023!
If it's not busy blowing up... Two of my x99 deluxe died.
I daily a ws/ipmi for years now never any issues also below a 4080 I'd expect it to keep up fine once ocd especially with a 5960x
Still using it to this day since 2015, running on a MSI X99S SLI PLUS water cooled running between 3.8Ghz and 4.4Ghz (depending if I need the extra power, but it does get hot even on water). Sill got games that use my Windows 7 partition that work better there than Win 10/11. I am planning on throwing 64GB of RAM at it to give it some extra life. Right now with SSD, RTX and 32GB RAM is still coming in the top 10 of ALL the benchmarks.
I found a Killer deal on a x299 ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega MOBO, opened box complete with all the accessories ... for 150 Bones!
I've always wanted a super high-end EATX Rampage Extreme motherboard. My question is, what would be a good CPU to run with it that's not expensive AF? Is it even worth it? Even if its just to get that beautiful work of art motherboard, its so bad ass.
I just had to pay 250 for one cause I need it for my work as my dark up and died
I have this processor paired with an MSI X99S XPOWER motherboard. It’s pretty dope.
I sold a computer with this CPU on 12/15/22 and they put an AMD RX 5700 XT in it for 1440p gaming and they are happy with it.
Still using my 2014 purchased 5820K, plenty fast enough for what I do with it :-)