Should I return my unopened X99 mobo and 5930K...

[spikerules]

and wait a couple of months for Skylake? What will the 6 core equivalent be, does anyone know?

 

[setter]

There wont be a hex core on standard skylake, only the X platforms get theese. 4 core eight thread chips are the max on the Z platform.

 

[spikerules]

I'm guessing there will be a new motherboard socket for the X versions then? X99 won't be able to support the X skylake? Are these coming later down the road?

 

[stuie]

Skylake-e wont me about till end of 2016 and its way too far off to speculate if it will or wont bring a new socket. Id stick with what youve got

 

[spikerules]

Thanks Stuie that certainly makes me feel better about what I purchased!

 

[Caracus2k]

I would not put it past to remain on a four core lineup for their mainstream cpu's to cannonlake cpu's and possibly beyond. If you want more multi core action x99 is where its at now and will likely remain for a at least 18 months or so. Its likely we will get another refresh of x99 compatible cpu's given the similarity from the consumer cpus and xeons on the same socket aswell

 

[Doogles]

If you already have it and can afford it I'd keep it. I would upgrade myself but for what I do it isn't worth it and holding out for a few years really does give the "WOW" factor

 

[wetpants]

What are you using it for? It seems quite extreme for gaming.

 

[smilertoo]

The top skylake cpus will be better for games using 1gpu, everything else will be better on your x99.

 

[spikerules]

What are you using it for? It seems quite extreme for gaming.

I'm using if for video editing from home (so I can work from home on occasion) and for gaming.

 

[pandem0nium]

The 5820k offers better price / performance than the 5930k. The extra lanes aren't worth £170 imo. Unless you're running 4 gpus.

 

[spikerules]

The 5820k offers better price / performance than the 5930k. The extra lanes aren't worth £170 imo. Unless you're running 4 gpus.

I'll be running 3-4 GPU's at some point and an PCI-E m.2 card.

 

[shamus21]

Stick with it spikerrules it will last you a good few years before you have to upgrade.

 

[pandem0nium]

I'll be running 3-4 GPU's at some point and an PCI-E m.2 card.

Ok cool. Skylake is definitely out of the question then with only 20 pcie lanes.

 

[spikerules]

Thanks all. I will keep what I have!

 

[Dave2150]

Ok cool. Skylake is definitely out of the question then with only 20 pcie lanes.

Skylake has 36 total PCI-E v3 lanes, not 20.

16 from the CPU and 20 from the Z170 chipset. So 16 for GPU's and 20 for high speed SSD's etc

Haswell-E is still the best for encoding, streaming etc due to the extra cores. However for games Skylake will probably outperform it, due to 10-15% more performance per clock (IPC) which games love.

Haswell-E is also obviously still the best for those running 3 or 4 way Crossfire/SLI setups. For 2 way Crossfire/SLI, Skylake will be fine, since benchmarks show zero performance difference between a 980 running 16x and 8x.