I dunno you can get an atx skylake motherboard for less than £100 with 6 sata 6 a couple of m2 slots some usb 3.1 one of em type c. An x99 version of the same would cost a lot more, the cheapest it £170 and doesn't get all that. I know x99 comes with yet more ports but I'll wager not many gamers are likely to use them. Also we nowhere near saturating the x8 graphics bandwidth so thats not likely to be relevant either. Also hardly any users will use sli.
If the processor is overkill anyway then why spend yet more to get lesser functionality?
But those sub £100 are not as well built,so ultimately like for like its closer to £50 to £60. Plus you also have the weird chipset limitation with realistically only 20 PCI-E 3.0 lanes on the CPU being useable for graphics and 28 for the Core i7 5820K.
If someone is going to spend £300 on a CPU for gaming,they probably going to want to go dual card at some point or have an option.
Plus are you going to be sure that in 4 years time,the Z170 is going to have enough bandwidth - I doubt it??
The Core i7 6700K is £300 and probably makes it the worst value for money Intel CPU under £400 in years. People should stop making excuses for such a poor value for money CPU,since if they can sell £300 4C/8T CPUs in quantity for desktop,soon expect £400 ones coming out in the next few years.
Game production doesn't take 1 or 2 years , it's often 3-4 or longer (unless you play assassins creed or fifa). So basically all games that were started 2 years ago are suddenly not gonna show up with dx12 support. Based on Witcher 3 creators interview it takes resources they simply didn't have. So they had to choose and decided not to deal with dx12 (at least before the release). I'd assume it will be similar, as nobody wants to stretch their budget on something new released in the middle of production. So dx12 games in my opinion are not gonna show up quickly. But who knows, if CDPred prepares another dx12 patch maybe all will go same route (still.. everyone will have completed the game by this time and won't care other than for benchmarks). No real life usage.
Doubt than most ppl delid their DC processors and they still achieve 4.8 on air which is still faster if you consider more cores and current games that benefit from more cores. As most 5820k run at 4.2-4.3 on air, because they are hotter even with your beloved solder.
The argument of x99 owners/fans is constantly about the future which they don't know. At current state skylake setup is cheaper even with i7 (motherboard cost and processor itself bought somewhere else) and definitely not slower in modern games. You can save the rest for better GPU than spend on x99
Yes,but whats funnier is that you are trying to make a £100 tax for HT reasonable. I will never own a X99 CPU,since I won't spend over £200 on a CPU myself,but it seems you are really wanting to make the Core i7 6700K look fantastic value when the difference in price at least using similar quality parts is less than £100.
Plus the OC headroom is not even well understood now,until a few months down the line until we get a larger sample base. Even if we take your numbers are face value - what is it another 15% maybe 20% in the best case scenario for ST performance,and in reality its probably going to be less,rather than all the grandious claims being made.
I remember certain people bigging up Skylake and since it is not all what its claimed to be,its almost like people are trying to fluff it up in some amazing way.
In fact most retailers are listing the Core i7 6700K and Core i7 5820K at the same price,with the Core i7 5820K being cheaper at a few,so at this point we will soon be seeing £400 4C/8T CPUs at this rate.
The Core i7 6700K is totally irrelevant with the Core i5 6600K under £200 and the Core i7 5820K.
The worst thing is that I thought the Core i7 5775C was overpriced,but the Core i7 6700K.
FFS,the Core i7 5775C even beats the Core i7 6700K in some games,has a massive IGP and is a drop in CPU for existing socket 1050 motherboards.
It also costs WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more to make than a Core i7 6700K and is the same price. Just like with the Core i7 5820K.
The Core i7 6700K is just an Intel profit margin gaining exercise.
It makes me wonder at times why it is being bigged up by some.
