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Gabbatek

Gabbatek

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Hey guys

So with skylake slowly dribbling out so intel can milk our money, by next summer how much cheaper do you think x99 will drop in price?

Or do you think by next summer, a 6 core variant of skylake will be more affordable than the haswell version ;)
 
By next summer x99 will be the same price, they are different market sections.

You'll then see Broadwell-E on socket 2011-3, a die shrink with some small improvements, perhaps 8 cores throughout the range, and Skylake-E will come much later with possibly a new motherboard.

The mainstream won't go 6 core for a while. We'll have a 10nm shrink of Skylake, before a new arch on 10nm, which *might* have a 6 core at the top end, only if Intel have moved all the 2011 CPUs to 8 core minimum.
 
So what do you think would be the best and sensible upgrade from my 2600k to future proof for the next 6 years like my trusty sandy has done. (its still a whopping beast)
 
stick with the 2600K, still a good cpu!

what do you use your PC for? is it gaming\general use or video editing and cpu intense programs?

if its the 1 in your sig then I wouldn't bother changing anything. maybe get a higher ress monitor? but 1080P is still good for gaming as this is what I game at

is the PC giving you any issues or is the upgrade itch getting to you? lol
 
ED209 said:
stick with the 2600K, still a good cpu!

what do you use your PC for? is it gaming\general use or video editing and cpu intense programs?

if its the 1 in your sig then I wouldn't bother changing anything. maybe get a higher ress monitor? but 1080P is still good for gaming as this is what I game at
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Yeah totally feeling that, really do want a new monitor but i'm not too sure what resolution to go to, 4k might be a bit excessive maybe.

I'm a hardcore gamer always running full settings, but i'll also have a film playing on another screen in vlc (openGL so won't crash dx games).

I plan on setting up a few more monitors in my childrens rooms so i can play films in their rooms in the evenings while i'm gaming but i'm not too sure how my 2600k would handle gaming and playing 1-3 on multiple monitors ;)
 
What monitor you want vastly depends on what games you play. 4k would be slightly overkill for any game, Ultrawide would be good if you play a lot of games where immersion is important (Elite: Dangerous, Racing Games, etc), and a standard 16:9, 144Hz, 1440p monitor would be good if you play a lot of FPS games.

I had no problems running a 4k monitor off an i5-3450 with a 980Ti so I can't imagine you having much issues with an i7-2600k really.
 
Joe! said:
What monitor you want vastly depends on what games you play. 4k would be slightly overkill for any game, Ultrawide would be good if you play a lot of games where immersion is important (Elite: Dangerous, Racing Games, etc), and a standard 16:9, 144Hz, 1440p monitor would be good if you play a lot of FPS games.

I had no problems running a 4k monitor off an i5-3450 with a 980Ti so I can't imagine you having much issues with an i7-2600k really.
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I mainly play Mechwarrior Online, Battlefield 4, Dying Light, GTA5, Star Trek Online

and hopefully MGS5 and Fallout 4 when they come out
 
maybe a good 1440P monitor @ 144hz will be good till 4k gets better and cheaper and will still allow you to keep fair settings in the games you play.
 
Adam123 said:
Slightly off topic, but how do you send different audio streams to different sources?
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I use vlc.

In vlc, you go into tools > preferences> video

Change output to openGL so it doesn't crash when you're running a directX game.

Then you can drag the window playing your film onto the monitor you want. With vlc you can have many windows open playing different films on different screens, you just have to remember to go on the audio menu and select which audio output you want for each specific film.

It can be frustrating at times, still working out how to set a side monitor next to my main that shows all the other screens in split screen for easy navigation and setup
 
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