Nice CPU my friend! Brings back good memories. I gave my son my old 5930K (6-core version) when I upgraded to the Threadripper 2950X. It was a great CPU at the time, rocking more cores than anyone else (out side of the 5960X of course) and was quite a boost to productivity. I only upgraded after building a Ryzen 2600 for a friend and it was on average 20% faster when I benchmarked it and was significantly cheaper than what I originally paid (600 USD for my i7 5930K at the time). For the type of work I do, more cores are the way to go so I opted to finally upgrade. Wasn't disappointed. Obviously, upgrading though all depends on your needs. Keep rocking your 8 core my friend!It's tech, as soon as a new product is released, the existing product can be classified as old.
Whether that actually has any affect on you is completely subjective.
My 5960X is old, very old really considering it's now 5 generations behind, do I care, not at all, it gets the job done and then some.
Yes, thanks for the correction. I was thinking of the 29.9 something NTSC TV (and 1080p@30) rate.
It's tech, as soon as a new product is released, the existing product can be classified as old.
Whether that actually has any affect on you is completely subjective.
My 5960X is old, very old really considering it's now 5 generations behind, do I care, not at all, it gets the job done and then some.
Wahoo! Sold my card for $940.00 + $14.95 shipping to a (409) blue star 100% feedback buyer. Good deal!#1 I demand payment immediately after a win. As soon as a person wins, I contact them. Normally I am paid and there's no issue.
#2 I ship immediately after I get the payment confirmation.
All this stuff is insured so I've never had a problem.
I have a 340 Blue Star on Ebay. NO NEGATIVES.
Don't get too excited. I plan to use it for 29 days, then send it back to you as "defective".Wahoo! Sold my card for $940.00 + $14.95 shipping to a (409) blue star 100% feedback buyer. Good deal!
Man, I'm so glad I sold it with a zero return "as is" disclaimer. hahaDon't get too excited. I plan to use it for 29 days, then send it back to you as "defective".
That 5960X isn't old compared to my 980X, lol. I've upgraded to a 4770K followed by a 3700X since then so the 980X PC has been relegated to my office for basic low intensive tasks since.I totally agree with that! Until last month, I had been using a double socket 2011 Asus motherboard with dual Xeons E5-2680 v2s, and they were ok. I switched for a 3900X because it sucks less juice from the wall socket and also because I've been a geek since my early teenage years in the (early) 80's!
The 5960X is certainly no slouch, even by today's standards IMHO...
I had upgraded from essentially a 980X, or at least the Xeon equivalent, to get to the 5960X. I had looked at the 4th gen parts, despite the advancements in IPC and higher potential overclock, I just felt going from a hex to a quad was a downgrade, not to mention triple channel to dual channel was also a downgrade. Heck even now going from quad to dual channel feels like a hard pill to swallow if I were to buy something modern... Fortunately I'm more interested in high resolution than frame rate beyond the 60Hz limit of my panel, and for that I don't think I'll run into a CPU bottleneck all that soon.That 5960X isn't old compared to my 980X, lol. I've upgraded to a 4770K followed by a 3700X since then so the 980X PC has been relegated to my office for basic low intensive tasks since.