New system spec - Cant decide on Skylake or Haswell-E

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Hi All.

Just putting together a new system and cant decide what route to take.. do I got less speed 6-core route or do i go brute force quad core route? Hers the two system specs.. ( GPU and GPU block are there for reference once released)

Quadcore:

Qty Stock ID Description Price Total
1 CP-582-IN Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM £281.99 £281.99
1 MB-526-GI GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 Intel Z170 £176.99 £176.99
1 MY-111-AR Blitz Original Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz £99.95 £99.95
1 GP-111-TI NvidiA Gefore 1080 £550.00 £550.00
2 HD-223-SA PM951 512GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive £129.95 £259.90
1 HD-192-SA 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive £119.99 £119.99
1 CA-004-PT Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99 £119.99
1 CA-007-PT Multicolor RGB LED Strip - 2 Metres £16.99 £16.99
1 CA-013-SF Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply £102.95 £102.95
1 WC-874-EK Predator 360 All In One Watercooling Solution - Revision 1.1 £209.99 £209.99
1 WC-989-EK EK-FC 1080 - Acetal - Predator Pre Filled £104.99 £104.99
3 FG-004-EK EK-Vardar F4-120 (2200rpm) £11.99 £35.97
1 FG-022-CS Air Series AF120 1500RPM LED Red Quiet Edition - Dual Pack £16.99 £16.99

£2096.69

Hexcore:

Qty Stock ID Description Price Total
1 CP-545-IN i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM £329.99 £329.99
1 MB-523-GI X99-SLI Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £179.99 £179.99
1 MY-118-AR Blitz Original Red 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz £119.99 £119.99
1 GP-111-TI NvidiA Gefore 1080 £550.00 £550.00
1 HD-223-SA PM951 512GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive £129.95 £129.95
2 HD-192-SA 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive £119.99 £239.98
1 CA-004-PT Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99 £119.99
1 CA-007-PT Multicolor RGB LED Strip - 2 Metres £16.99 £16.99
1 CA-013-SF Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply £102.95 £102.95
1 WC-874-EK Predator 360 All In One Watercooling Solution - Revision 1.1 £209.99 £209.99
1 WC-989-EK EK-FC 1080 - Acetal - Predator Pre Filled £104.99 £104.99
3 FG-004-EK EK-Vardar F4-120 (2200rpm) £11.99 £35.97
1 FG-022-CS Air Series AF120 1500RPM LED Red Quiet Edition - Dual Pack £16.99 £16.99

£2157.77


Also have a question on the Gigabyte g7 gaming board in the quad core spec.. as it has two M2 slots would it be better to run the OS off the Sata SSD and have the two M2 as storage for games etc??
 
Using the PC for what?

If you're using software that will make use of the extra cores then Haswell-E, if not so much then the Skylake build.

If it's a purely gaming build then personally I'd go with Skylake. Sure, games will start making use of more cores in the future but I think we're a long way off massive gaming gains from 6 core CPUs.
 
ExRayTed said:
Using the PC for what?

If you're using software that will make use of the extra cores then Haswell-E, if not so much then the Skylake build.

If it's a purely gaming build then personally I'd go with Skylake. Sure, games will start making use of more cores in the future but I think we're a long way off massive gaming gains from 6 core CPUs.
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Mainly gaming yes but sometime in the future may start looking at streaming but to be fair will have a second small PC for doing the decoding.. Might need to do some video editing but will be very small projects now and again.
 
You aware that both those CPU+boards are available as bundle deals to save money.

£20 steam voucher with the gaming7 also.
 
stulid said:
You aware that both those CPU+boards are available as bundle deals to save money.

£20 steam voucher with the gaming7 also.
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I thought there might be but as I am waiting for the 1080 and EK to release the water block i didn't include it in my pricing as the bundles may have changed by then.
 
Thanks All.

Think i will stick with the skylake.

anyone have any comments about this?

Also have a question on the Gigabyte g7 gaming board in the quad core spec.. as it has two M2 slots would it be better to run the OS off the Sata SSD and have the two M2 as storage for games etc??
 
I would run OS off 1 M.2 and games of the other m.2 and sata... I think its just preference tho, all will be fast , just m.2 will be F____ing fast (if you get the right drive)
 
enigma27 said:
Mainly gaming yes but sometime in the future may start looking at streaming but to be fair will have a second small PC for doing the decoding.. Might need to do some video editing but will be very small projects now and again.
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Skylake i5.

Streaming isn't that CPU intensive and will use hardware acceleration sooner or later.
 
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