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5820k is an oddball of sorts is the first time Intel's released a 6-quart 12 threaded CPU as an entry-level CPU in their enthusiast platform coming into $400 this may certainly seem like compelling value for money or is it let's find out today so with practically every other reviewer out there reviewing the 59 60 X that's the eighth course 16 threaded Beast I took it upon myself to get the value option the $400 5820k now this is a six core 12 threaded CPU that comes clocked in at three point three gigs base with a three point six gig turbo clock the case ratio also comes in clocked at three gigahertz which I'll talk a little bit more about that in the conclusion overclocking however the only disadvantage of the CPU really is that it has 28 PCIe lanes first it's bigger brother the 59 30k which has 40 PCIe lanes however you do pay on average a $200 premium for those extra lanes and on a good note it does have an extra 12 lanes over the little brother of the four 790 K so this does have a place in the market however another disadvantage of this is that you will have to get the pricey x99 platform as well as the currently newly released ddr4 memory which also will set you back quite a bit of money so those two things a slide is this CPU good value for money let's move on now to the benchmarks well be benchmarking this in games productivity benchmarks will be testing power consumption and then we'll move on to a conclusion where I talk about overclocking as well so let's move on now to the benchmarks where I've tested gaming boot times productivity power consumption so there's so much juicy stuff here and this CPU was clocked at four point two gigs that's of 5820k and I compared it against the four 670 K which was clocked at four point six gigs now the reason I did this is because I believe that's about the fair difference between them I do believe on average a four core will go higher than a six or an eight core and it was reflected in the voltages ultimately this was at one point two four volt and my for 670 K was at one point two five five volts are very similar the RAM speeds I'll put that in the description below but the four 670 K was clocked at two gigs the memory and the 5820k I decided to leave that on the default of two one three three as I'll be doing a review on the ddr4 memory for crucial very soon but let's move on now to the gaming benchmarks battlefield for 1080p ultra the test range this manage this was actually an interesting benchmark we managed to see the 5820k pull of victory a clear victory here with one hundred eighty seven point nine two frames per second average versus the four 670 K average frames per second of 160 8.08 I also tested this on Windows 8 as well both CPUs as opposed to Windows 7 which I've done a lot of my previous testing on and the reason was I had the VI had really said that the 5820k kind of clumped out but let's move on now to Crysis 3 1080p ultra and this was done with 59.2 8 frames per second versus 58.92 so in Crysis 3 on the 5820k versus the 4 670 K there was virtually no difference at all so if you were buying this 5820k for extra Crysis 3 speeds you'd be in bad luck but now let's move on now the Skyrim one game that I was actually very curious to see the results for because this is a game that relies on not just ram speeds it relies on CPU cache and CPU clock speeds it's very intense on all those three things and this just showed it I mean this CPU was clocked 400 megahertz lower and it scored 170 5.08 French for a second versus a hundred and sixty eight point five two on the four 670 K so it's clocked law but it's scoring a higher scoring highest score and I think this mainly has to do with the extra CPU cache it has a lot more CPU cache on board than the four 670 K so that just proved that this is really good I really enjoyed doing that benchmark moving on now to ARMA 3 1080p ultra this benchmark was interesting because the for 670 K scored a clear victory here being seventy-three point five six frames per second average frames per second on the 5820k versus seventy-eight point eight four frames per second on the for 670 K so Wow the I mean the 5820k lost here so ARMA 3 is clearly clock speed dependent on fewer cores so it's not optimized for those multi-threaded CPUs well it is I guess for core optimize for four cores but anyway let's move on out some 1440p benchmarks battlefield for a hundred and twenty four frames per second on the 5820k versus the four 670 K which scored a hundred and ten so there was another clear victory at 1440p this game clearly loves those multi-threaded CPUs and it's clearly optimised for them as well let's move on now to Crysis 3 1440p ultra we had here 38.1 six frames per second versus 37.6 eight again absolutely nothing between these two CPUs in Crysis 3 let's move on now to some productivity benchmarks adobe premiere pro cs6 this was with my gtx 970 and ultimately this was the mercury engine was enabled so i wanted this to reflect real-world conditions and we see here the 5820k scored a clear victory it was a big victory over the 467 TK coming in at 491 seconds this was to render I think this was rendering a it was a nine minute video with a 50 megabit per second bitrate with the max of a hundred megabits per second the 4:6 Emenike lost by quite a bit coming in at 737 seconds looking at prisoners I decided to do a music benchmark for some of those people who do a lot of mixing and stuff like that even though I had no idea what I was doing I just got a trial I pretty much made this 3 minute and 30 second copy-paste track and then I just decided to mix it down and I decided to get some recording scores and times on the mix down the time it took to make the mix down so the 5820k scored six point two three two seconds versus the four six 70k which came in at twelve point zero five seconds so a big victory for the 5820k here especially for those people who do music production so the next benchmark is WinRAR this is this time around I decided to do a massive fifteen point five gigabyte file on both 64-bit versions of WinRAR and the 5820k scored 611 seconds to archive the file on normal compression and the 4-6 Emenike took eleven hundred and eighty seven seconds so this was a big victory for the 5820k in winrar as well Cinebench this is the next interesting benchmark r15 the 5820k came a miles ahead of the 467 TK coming in at twelve hundred and twelve points contrast this to the four 670 K that came in at six hundred and ninety seven points so Cinebench clearly was a victory for the 5820k by a big shot so let's look at boot times now boot times of 5820k actually lost to the four six seventy K coming in at twenty eight point nine two seconds versus the four 670 K which booted up in twenty four point eight four seconds so Windows eight it loves fast clock speeds for boot times that's something to take note there and that's something I learnt for my learnt myself with this benchmark now power consumption before I managed to reinstall windows I disabled hyper threading on prime95 because if I had it enabled the power consumption went through the roof it was like going up to four hundred and thirty Watts four hundred and forty watts however with type of threading disabled I thought it was more realistic versus two four six semi K and we see it still comes in at a massive hundred and twenty five watts extra power this is clocked four hundred megahertz lower and it was just getting I mean it was just consuming power like a beast I mean the four six seventy K when I clocked that at four point two gigs that went all the way down to 220 watts so clocked the clock I mean the 467 TK was a lot more power efficient like a lot more power efficient this thing just the mean the 5820k chewed power that was with hyper-threading disabled so that was I mean this platform is one hell of a power chewing machine looking at the idles temps here I mean the idle wattage here 133 versus 98 so that's actually pretty good considering the extra cores and the fact that the 467 TK goes all the way down 800 megahertz whereas the 5820k only goes down to 1200 minimum clock speeds and you got a factor in the x99 also has a lot more stuff onboard the motherboard so anyway that's there's the benchmarks done let's move on now to a conclusion so this is the conclusion the part where I give you guys my thoughts and opinions on the 5820k and ultimately it boils down to one question what are you looking for in a CPU if you're a gamer and you're just gaming on one high-end graphics card or even to mid to high range graphics cards then this CPU is going to be a complete waste of being money like seriously if you have a sip 4770k hour for 790 K you're going to save money not only on the CPU but you're going to save money on the X the on the platform you can get a z97 motherboard which comes in a lot cheaper than the next ninety-nine you can also get ddr3 memory which doesn't really make a difference for games and then you've got the power consumption this thing used up a crapload more of power power than the four six seventy K did I mean this was in prime95 but even when I was gaming I tested out a few games when I was gaming I looked down at my power meter and I clearly saw that this thing was using up a lot more than my four six seventy K ever did so I wish I mean I wish Intel would kind of copy Toyota and put some variable valve timing in this CPU that would be a cool feature but I don't think that's going to come in the near future anyway so yeah basically the for a gamer I mean especially one on just a budget this CPU and platform is not really for you however let's look at now the productivity benchmarks we saw that this thing absolutely kicked the living out of the 467 TK it was a no comparison so if you're on a budget I guess if you're on a Productivity budget if you're going for a workstation an entry-level workstation then this thing makes a lot of sense I mean it really did especially Premiere Pro and unzipping things and just making music and Cinebench it really proved that it is a CPU ready to do the workload required of it so it really is one hell of a CPU for productivity yes it does use extra power but it does so with results when it comes to productivity also one thing you've got is the 2028 PCIe lanes on this CPU and it kind of puts it in a unique position where it's in between the 59 30 K and the four 790 K and I mean ultimately the 4790k if all you're doing is making a couple of videos here and there and we're making music here and there the four 790 K is still going to be a wonderful by even the 4690k but if you're working all the time and time is money then this thing's going to be a great buyer even the eight core 16 threads gonna be an 8 by however this thing can't do what the 59 30 K or the 8 core can do because it doesn't have as many PCIe lanes but what it does have over the 4 core is especially an extra 8 lanes so you can put a say a high-end graphics card like a Tesla and then you can have another graphics card so you can have that at 16 speed or in this persistent speed PCIe slot and then you can have another greatest card for all your monitors maybe a Quadra for all you monitors and you'll have one be set up and that will allow you to do that this screw this CPU or allow you to do that however if you're looking for the best possible render times then obviously you're going to go with the 8 core and that has the 40 PCIe lanes anyway so I actually kind of in hinds I mean in in closing I actually like where this CPU is placed I think it's great that Intel's offering more options like this and I was actually kind of impressed with the Pentium as well the G 32:58 the fact that they allowed people to overclock it on a cheap motherboard that was really good as well obviously the x99 is expensive that's something that can't be helped I mean when I'm gonna do give you guys a review of the msi x99s own and honestly for the money it's feature-packed it is when I opened it out of the box it was a heavy motherboard and it just came feature-packed I was actually very impressed with the x99 motherboard the memory the ddr4 memory that's just how it is it runs cooler uses less power and it's higher speeds than ddr3 so you can't really expect the process of that to come down anytime soon but yeah those two extra costs are associated with this CPU so keep that in mind even though this thing looks good on the surface every productivity it's great it still comes with those extra costs so yeah that's it guys if you enjoyed this review of the 5820k please leave please give it a thumbs up it took me a long time to do I'll be getting a ddr4 memory review done for crucial very soon and I'll be giving some tutorials and stuff like that in the MSI motherboard review that's coming very soon but ultimately yeah this CPU is kind of a bit of a mixed bag I guess if you're also I guess one more thing I left out is the temps and how it overclocked as well this CPU overclocked pretty really mediocre I mean I thought maybe I had a below-average chip I mean I got to 4.5 gigs and I looked at the power consumption I merely restarted my computer I'm like this this see this overclock isn't for me like it was drawing like almost near 500 Watts on prime95 this was only the CPU before I even kicked in the graphics card and I was like no way I'm not using this CPU with that much wattage from the wall so the diminishing returns really kicks in after 1.2 watts as opposed to the 46 70 K we're diminishing returns kicks in after about 1.25 volt so the 4c 70k will be or the four cores will be better for overclocking then these eight cores or the six cores will be that just can't be helped they're bigger cause they leak more also the temps of the motherboard the MSI motherboard held up perfectly fine with this CPU and on the sweet spot overclock of 4.2 gigs on this CPU the Animax t40 did a fantastic job as well so kudos to both MSI and Animax and also crucial as well that memory is running so cool and I've actually been playing around with it and overclocking it and over clocks like a beast so that's one thing as well also one thing I forgot to mention is the cash ratio as well on this CPU is clocked at 3.6 gig and it was surprised because I couldn't get it any higher than 3.6 gig and when you look at the other specs of the three and 59 30 K and the 59 60 X you see that basically they've got the same cache ratio speeds as the clock speeds this one comes in 300 megahertz lower by default comes in a three gig clock speed on the case ratio where as opposed to the normal clock speeds got 3.6 gig turbo so there's something going on with the CPU where the cache is maybe severely I guess inferior to the 59 30 K out of 59 60 X and I couldn't get mine and past 3.6 gig no matter what I did and I was absolutely surprised because the 4 670 K goes up to 4.1 no problems so something's going on with the case ratio there and an interesting thing with the case ratio is when you overclock that and you give it more voltage it actually uses up a bit more power to I managed from 3 gigs to 3.6 it used up an extra 20 watts in prime95 where as opposed to my 4 670 K it used up nothing like a property I could probably attribute 2 or 3 watts for this something going on with the case ratio with the CPU I recommend ultimately I've got mine at 3.3 gigs a little bit of a overclock bear on it a little bit of a tweak and so I'll be coming out with an overclocking tutorial for this thing very soon as I've already learned its behavior and how it behaves but yeah for me personally you guys know that I am a gamer and I produce a lot of I guess I'm starting to produce a lot of content so I guess I mean at first was really unimpressed with the CP I was like damn I wasted my money but I'm actually the more I use it the more I start to like it it is a beast and I mean it does anything that I can throw at it so I'm left and left at the moment with the sort of like a you know give it a mid-range score so can I recommend it for people yeah even if they're a gamer I guess looking to upgrade in the future maybe I don't know I mean I wish honestly I wish this thing had 32 PCIe lanes that would make it a really good killing blow for those gamers who want to get to grabs cards and just go balls to the walls like when you know two really ridiculously high speed graphics cards come out so that'd be really cool if they did enable 16 speed on both the PCI Express 1 and 2 ports that's my only shame I mean just wish it had 32 but anyway that's about it from me guys I hope you enjoyed this review and if you haven't already hit the like button please it took me a long time like I said before and if you haven't already subscribe to take our city and I'll catch you guys with a tech video very shortly peace out for now bye