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That 750w would have been more than sufficient. Got an overclocked X99 build with a reference 980ti running upstairs at this very moment with a Superflower 750w. No issues whatsoever.
 
TeflonJim said:
I've upped the PSU to a 1K platinum for now. I'd rather a little overkill and a bit of future proofing with a decent PSU than find myself short.
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Do yourself a favour and don't buy a discontinued platform if you want to future proof your system. Yeah Haswell-E might only be 5-10% slower with more cores (Are you are gamer or a video encoder?) skylake-e is coming early next year then you'll be facepalming.
 
kayomani said:
Do yourself a favour and don't buy a discontinued platform if you want to future proof your system. Yeah Haswell-E might only be 5-10% slower with more cores (Are you are gamer or a video encoder?) skylake-e is coming early next year then you'll be facepalming.
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You are looking at Q3 2016 for Skylake-E.
 
kayomani said:
Do yourself a favour and don't buy a discontinued platform if you want to future proof your system. Yeah Haswell-E might only be 5-10% slower with more cores (Are you are gamer or a video encoder?) skylake-e is coming early next year then you'll be facepalming.
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Gaming more than anything else. A little bit of software development too I imagine, but since I tend to use notepad for that it's hardly going to be taxing :)

As I see it all platforms are transient. Of the, hmm, 6 or so PCs I've owned over the last 15 years I've never been able to upgrade without (at a minimum) replacing the motherboard and processor. Often the upgrades are far more demanding (AGP -> PCI-E, or DDR(i) to DDI(++i), etc, etc).

Ah well, 'tis only my opinion and allows me to get a bit itchy and start clicking the buy button :)
 
kayomani said:
Do yourself a favour and don't buy a discontinued platform if you want to future proof your system. Yeah Haswell-E might only be 5-10% slower with more cores (Are you are gamer or a video encoder?) skylake-e is coming early next year then you'll be facepalming.
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What is discontinued about Haswell-E? Most Intel chipsets get 2 gens of processors on them, X99 has only had one so far. It should have gotten Broadwell-E but I doubt that will be coming out, so who knows, it may get Skylake-E.

Skylake offers no features over Haswell-E, so Haswell-E may be aging, but there's no reason not to take the more cores. I could agree with your statement if you were arguing Z97 vs Z170, or X79 vs X99 for instance.

If you base your builds off what is coming out in 9-12 months time, you will never, ever upgrade your parts. You should always buy the best available (unless there's a new item coming out in literally a few weeks, maybe a month time at most), and at the current rate of progress, a 5820k will last you many years for gaming, long after the X99 platform is EoL.
 
Why does everyone talk about future proofing? There is always going to be a new bit of hardware just around the corner that is "worth waiting for"..
 
Joe! said:
What is discontinued about Haswell-E? Most Intel chipsets get 2 gens of processors on them, X99 has only had one so far. It should have gotten Broadwell-E but I doubt that will be coming out, so who knows, it may get Skylake-E.

Skylake offers no features over Haswell-E, so Haswell-E may be aging, but there's no reason not to take the more cores. I could agree with your statement if you were arguing Z97 vs Z170, or X79 vs X99 for instance.

If you base your builds off what is coming out in 9-12 months time, you will never, ever upgrade your parts. You should always buy the best available (unless there's a new item coming out in literally a few weeks, maybe a month time at most), and at the current rate of progress, a 5820k will last you many years for gaming, long after the X99 platform is EoL.
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Couldn't agree more.
 
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