What are the benefits of X99?

[Chimp Paradox]

I don't really get it

 

[ShivP]

If you are doing core heavy work (rendering, some CAD work) the extra cores make a big difference
For gaming, there's no real point You can also have more than 2 GPU configurations, whereas with the 4790k etc if I recall correctly you need a PLX chip to do that

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

DDR4, 6-8 cores 12-16 threads, Quad SLI/Quadfire, what's not to get?

 

[MasterOC]

DDR4 --- Upto you if you concider that a plus
Support for 6 & 8 Core CPU's
Native Thunderbolt Support
More native PCI-E lanes with supported CPU
Latest platform
a few more

... All depends on do you need the above .

 

[ED209]

I've not looked in to it as I'm not after a new system but the only one I am aware is that it uses DDR4 and not DDR3 like previous systems.

 

[stulid]

A deep sense of superiority.

 

[ED209]

bloody hell, that was a lot of replies between me typing and pressing ok! lol

 

[Spuddy]

DDR4 --- Upto you if you concider that a plus
Support for 6 & 8 Core CPU's
Native Thunderbolt Support
More native PCI-E lanes with supported CPU
Latest platform
a few more

... All depends on do you need the above .

Do all X99 mobo's have a thunderbolt port?

 

[MasterOC]

Do all X99 mobo's have a thunderbolt port?

Nope , although they really should .

 

[8 Pack]

A deep sense of superiority.

Correct!!!

 

[tipes]

A deep sense of superiority.

Correct!!!

Lol. but true

Mark

 

[Ease]

A deep sense of superiority.

This is why I'm about to upgrade to X99.

 

[ReCoN1989]

A lighter wallet is one thing. I'm pretty sure benchmarks have shown the difference between crossfire at 16x 8x and 16x 4x was mostly negligible so z97 would be fine for up to 2 GPUs as they don't seem to be bandwidth limited. I would only consider X99 if I needed more than 32 GB of ram, 3 or more GPUs or required the extra threads for CPU intensive tasks that could benefit from all 6 cores; encoding, 3D rendering etc