Intel i7-5820K and i7-5930K Processor Review

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You do get a couple of things, a McAfee special offer and hidden in the manual, a case badge, a nice one at that!

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Looking like the Skylakes and the Skt939 Athlons, the Haswells are keeping up with the Jones’s

Testing Set Up

All synthetic tests are carried out three times with the best result taken. All gaming tests are carried out three times with the best results taken. All game tests, multi player or otherwise, are carried out three times with the best average taken. If the game is an online multi player, a ping constantly under 40ms is required before a test is valid.

Synthetic Tests

Real World Tests

  • Battlefield 4
  • Crysis 3

If you ignore the Turbo throttled CPU table, you will see these are basically the same chip with the two major differences being clock speed and PCIe lanes with the Intel i7-5820K having 28 and the i7-5930K utilizing 40 lanes.

Intel i7-5820K and i7-5930K Processor Review

Package - 8.5
Performance - 9.5
Price - 9
Consumer Experience - 9.5

9.1

As we said at the beginning, Skylake is now here and the time is right to think about upgrading.You need to spare a thought for these power houses and if you are going to spend your money, which one? This is a simple one, unless you are going to use more than one graphics card, you need to buy the i7-5820K. As you can see from the test results, it's only a very small margin away from the i7-5930K in single card configurations.