7820X or something else?

[wejaton]

Currently have 5930k with x99 Rampage board, issue is the dam thing is annoying at best. Anyways, I do light gaming and solid modeling on the side(SW, Creo, Catia, ANSYS, Abaqus), sometimes very light video editing, and the usual million chrome tabs open at once. I want to upgrade because I can make a decent profit back on my gear by selling it to a friend.

Anyways, originally I was gonna go with a threadripper build, but most of the applications I run want high clock speeds, and if I can get in the 8-10 core range I will be happy. Games I play are a lot of legacy games, emulators, HoTS, WoW Vanilla (will probably play WoW Classic), Skyrim and some sandbox games so I do not need insane FPS. In all due honestly if I need compute power I will throw it at the 28core server I keep in the basement like a b@stard step child.

Anyways intended build:
1. Caselabs M8 case with a custom water-loop, 2x360 rads, EK blocks, and around 12 fans total in the case, so dissipating heat will not be an issue
2. EVGA x299 Dark Mobo
3. 7820X or 7900X
4. Some EVGA 1080TI
5. 1TB M.2 OS, 1 TB SSD Games, 4TB Mechanical backups
6. 32GB 3000Mhz ram i have laying around 2x16GB

Question is it has been a while since I have done a custom water-loop and I want to really do it again (threadripper OCs like a turd from my understanding so no point in there either, don't get me wrong I love AMD, but for my workloads it makes 0 sense for me), without deliding for now what are some temps & OCs people have gotten out of these chips? I seen reviews but results are scattered, I would prefer to hear from people who actually use these with custom loops or just solid cooling in general.

I would probably keep the sucker at 4.5Ghz OC to keep the house from burning down when I am not around, I also would prefer stability.

Thanks in advance

 

[AlienALX]

Bad idea to buy a 8 core CPU right now. Ryzen "2" is coming and apparently with it another 400mhz min and higher IPC. This will draw it level with the 7820x in about everything if it all comes to frution and I reckon it will cost a lot less. The board would, too.

I will admit I am a little confused by what you are saying. You say you don't want cores, then why not stick with what you have? If you don't use cores all you will gain is a little IPC and some slightly higher clock speeds at 4.5ghz.

The 7900x is more of an upgrade but that is when you get to Threadipper territory. And that is when it gets muddy. I just checked Amazon, £864. The Threadipper 1950x is £822 and will absolutely squash it when threading. Even the £666 ( EEK !)1920x will beat it too when running at 4ghz.

Also, whilst 4ghz may sound lame believe me when you have either 24 or 32 threads it makes a massive difference.

I dunno. I think right now I would go TR or wait. At 8/10 core level AMD are just about to respond in a couple of months.

Also.

I have mentioned before incremental upgrades and monumental upgrades. Do you really think it is worth the bother to swap a 6/12 CPU for an 8/16 CPU? Seriously? with a RAM swap at prices they are at now? IGNORE this part. Forgot X99 is DDR4 doh !

2/4 is incremental and, IMO, a complete waste of money. X99 prices are at rock bottom ATM, I know, because I'm on it. Recently Gigabyte SOCs were selling new for £120. Only reason I didn't get one was the orange. You will also have a hard time selling the 5930k for anything close to reasonable, because 1600 prices are on the floor.

So yeah, again I am sticking with what I said above. Either go monumental and get some cores in the house or don't bother.