Skylake of Haswell-E ?

[Dicehunter]

Getting rid of my 2nd rig soon and going to use the money from that to fund my new rig which will also be replacing my current rig which is a 4770K which I'll probably end up donating it to a family member.

So, I have my eye on the Sabertooth X99 as it looks sexy as hell, A 5930K for the extra PCI-E lanes over the 5820K and 16GB of Corsair LPX memory.

That OR a Skylake 6700K ?

I'm stuck

The reason I ask is I do a lot of video editing as of late, Would X99 be the better choice for that ?

 

[Dicehunter]

Hey dice! For video editing I'd say X99, for gaming Z170. The more cores the better for the former eh

Thanks for the reply, I split my time up 50/50 though between gaming and editing, Going from a 4770K to a 6700K based on current benches wouldn't really be much of an upgrade unless I'm missing something.

 

[Dicehunter]

Haha, just realised did OP mean Broadwell-E ? That's what I thought he meant.

No I meant Haswell-E, I'm buying within the next month so I'm not going to ask about something coming out next year

*EDIT*

Is it possible to just run 2 sticks of memory on X99 until I get a further 2 sticks ?

 

[Dicehunter]

Awesome thanks peeps, Going to be getting the Sabertooth X99, 5820K and 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz as it's aesthetics goes quite well with the Sabertooths design, I'll add another 16GB around January and swap out the 5820K to the highest non "X" Broadwell-E when that becomes available i.e 6930K or whatever they call it

 

[Dicehunter]

Ok well after much debate I've decided to stick to my Haswell build for now and wait until Broadwell-E comes out to buy CPU/Mobo/Memory seeing as Intel will probably be releasing X99-V4 mobos to go along with Broadwell-E.