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Hi all.
So XMAS eve my old i7 950 rig that I gave my dad decided to die.. Just after the warranty for the Sabertooth X58 ran out.
I'm currently on a 3770K, H100i, 16GB DDR3 1600 CL8 RAM, 980TI, 250GB Samsung Evo 840 boot, 2x3TB RAID1 for games and 2TB storage.
As we need to now do a new rig, I was thinking of either going Skylake or Haswell-E. I know X99 socket is "overkill" for gaming, but I'm considering it because I like the idea of extra cores over an iGPU I won't be using.
My dad will be getting my CPU, mobo, RAM, cooler, case and boot drive. I have replacement drives ready for use - a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 and a 960GB Sandisk Ultra 2. Will be using the 3TBs and 2TB in the new build but will be switching the RAID1 to RAID0.
So, I have a budget of about £1000 to do a build, which will include a new case and cooler. Either socket will likely have the future upgrade path of Cannonlake and Broadwell-E.
So was looking at something like the following:
i7 6700K, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 RAM, Asus Sabertooth Z170, Hydro H110i GT, Corsair 450D and something like an EVGA Supernova platinum PSU.
or
i7 5820K, 16GB DDR4 3200 RAM, Asus Intel X99-A/USB3.1, Hydro H110i GT, Corsair 450D and again same sort of PSU.
The costs are very similar, with the Skylake coming out a little cheaper due to the cash back offer that's about to finish with Asus (10th of Jan)
I'm just concerned about Skylake and SLI, as that is something I wouldn't mind doing to then move up to 4K gaming, whether I go Pascal or wait for Volta and go SLI with the 980TI. If I want to go SLI and then add an NVMe SSD how will it affect performance? Is NVMe worth considering for the cost of the SSDs?
I've looked at some of the gaming benchmarks etc, but some of the games I play do seem to be CPU bound for physics etc like Civilisation 5 and Dovetail Railworks 2015/2016.
So if anyone wants to give me advice on the pros and cons for each system I'd appreciate it. I would like to order the parts on Monday to build the new system.
So XMAS eve my old i7 950 rig that I gave my dad decided to die.. Just after the warranty for the Sabertooth X58 ran out.
I'm currently on a 3770K, H100i, 16GB DDR3 1600 CL8 RAM, 980TI, 250GB Samsung Evo 840 boot, 2x3TB RAID1 for games and 2TB storage.
As we need to now do a new rig, I was thinking of either going Skylake or Haswell-E. I know X99 socket is "overkill" for gaming, but I'm considering it because I like the idea of extra cores over an iGPU I won't be using.
My dad will be getting my CPU, mobo, RAM, cooler, case and boot drive. I have replacement drives ready for use - a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 and a 960GB Sandisk Ultra 2. Will be using the 3TBs and 2TB in the new build but will be switching the RAID1 to RAID0.
So, I have a budget of about £1000 to do a build, which will include a new case and cooler. Either socket will likely have the future upgrade path of Cannonlake and Broadwell-E.
So was looking at something like the following:
i7 6700K, 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 RAM, Asus Sabertooth Z170, Hydro H110i GT, Corsair 450D and something like an EVGA Supernova platinum PSU.
or
i7 5820K, 16GB DDR4 3200 RAM, Asus Intel X99-A/USB3.1, Hydro H110i GT, Corsair 450D and again same sort of PSU.
The costs are very similar, with the Skylake coming out a little cheaper due to the cash back offer that's about to finish with Asus (10th of Jan)
I'm just concerned about Skylake and SLI, as that is something I wouldn't mind doing to then move up to 4K gaming, whether I go Pascal or wait for Volta and go SLI with the 980TI. If I want to go SLI and then add an NVMe SSD how will it affect performance? Is NVMe worth considering for the cost of the SSDs?
I've looked at some of the gaming benchmarks etc, but some of the games I play do seem to be CPU bound for physics etc like Civilisation 5 and Dovetail Railworks 2015/2016.
So if anyone wants to give me advice on the pros and cons for each system I'd appreciate it. I would like to order the parts on Monday to build the new system.