Comment Re:5820K is an extremely nice part (Score 2) 181
I was just looking at that one a few hours ago (need to replace my desktop
I decided against it because it has many fewer of the new instructions than the 4790K, slower clock, and almost double the TDP (and I prefer quiet/low power).
Obviously for highly parallel tasks that can fit nicely in the 5820K's bigger cache, it will win handily. I'd love to see an ffmpeg coding shoot-out, but I'm concerned that the 5820K's disabled PCIe lanes might hamper other system performance (vs. e.g. the 5830K).
If anybody here has an ASRock Z97 mobo that they love, I'd like to hear about it.