i am currently thinking to building a solid powerful rig..and though the buyer's guide is super helpful(you guys rock here!) i went to a local electronics store recenlty ..and while i was quite sure i was going to get i7 4790k for my new build i saw the 5xxx series just came out!!!
so..if i buy 5820k..(the 5xxxX are too expensive and i dont think i will need so much powerful cpu anyway) will it work on yosemite? coz i dont know if any mac computer has it..?or should i go with 4790k?
or wait and see?
really would like to see what everyone would choose..thx in advance folks!
Without knowing what your workload will be (and your budget) its impossible to answer the question.
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These are contrived answers to illustrate a point
1. If you are into development, e.g. Perl, then the 4790K overclocked to an inch of its life is the best CPU as Perl is single threaded and the fastest clock speed imaginable is absolutely the best CPU.
2. If you are into games then a 'smaller' i5 CPU might be just as good for what you need. The 5820K and the 4790K have features you will never use so therefore thats just wasted money.
3. If you are into Video editing then the 4790K is a great CPU as it has media encoding built in so things such as rendering are faster.
4. If you need lots and lots and lots of cores (but at slower speed) then the 5820K will be the best option but its clock speed isn't as high as a 4790K.
I could go on, but you get the point (hopefully), there is no best CPU, only the best CPU for what you need and only you know what you need.
Forget all this bollocks about CPU speed and biggest is best, look at what you actually need to do, not what you might like to do two years down the line and buy accordingly. A better use of the money is more memory, all applications like more memory, faster disk, and an appropriate GPU.
I leave with an example of an IBM Power 7 series CPU running on a P-Series mini. Technically it only worked at 4.4GHz, but we would load that puppy up with lots of RAM (512GB), masses of disk, and we'd put 20-30 users on it and it would would run flat out with all these users happy 24/7. If you looked at the CPU speed it wasn't much better than a 4790K. (Oh it also cost around $250K). Headline specs are pretty meaningless, look at what you want to do.
