skylake processor, which one???

Hedge · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:25

Simon Belmont said:
This again^

I wouldn't even reply any more mate. Let x99 users believe what they will. It's there opinion. You tell them you're very happy with your CPU and they tell you no, your CPU isn't as good as mine. Oh please!

Im not even sure what cpu the Op bought now. Got lost in the route we took the thread.

I assume the choice was 6600k?

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:26

thesuperlouis said:
can i just say that some of your responses on here led me to do extensive research on processor v processor? and i have held myself in a very mature manner hedge... im not telling fellow users to "get a grip" i am simply putting my point across in a reasonable manner and you should appreciate that i do to have an opinion hedge.

thesuperlouis said:
listen i have clearly made the choice to go the skylake route.. and all iv heard is responses from x99/5820k owners weighing in... so i did my own extensive research on processor v processor, and that fact still remains that skylake is new better superior tech with better architecture... fact!

Yep 100% opinion.

As mentioned, we could do some user benchmarks, overclock that beast to 4.6, but let me know your Gpu first, this isn't willy waving, it would be helpful for for others who aren't sure which way to go.

Plus i'd really really like to see the gains i'm missing out on.

Simon Belmont · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:27

Hedge said:
Im not even sure what cpu the Op bought now. Got lost in the route we took the thread.

I assume the choice was 6600k?

I think he went for the 15 6600k?

thesuperlouis · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:33

i went with 6600k.. on order

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:37

thesuperlouis said:
i went with 6600k.. on order

What gpu have you gone for?

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:39

Not really got that involved in this thread as I'm quite happy with my 4820K and had my head out of CPUs for awhile... but having a quick gander unless you are spending a lot of time doing very single threaded stuff why would you even buy a 4C/4T CPU at that price? that is some mad swallowing the Intel market speak. Could kind of understand taking the price hit to get the "best" on the 6700K but just don't see it with the 6600K.

Playing some recent games with HT on/off there is a fair difference in smoothness even when framerates are the same (unless you are someone who caps at 60Hz/fps).

Price humping the real i7s like that is borderline criminal IMO :S

DragonQ · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:48

Bloody whippersnappers. Back in my day, i7 model numbers had three digits!

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:50

DragonQ said:
Bloody whippersnappers. Back in my day, i7 model numbers had three digits!

I miss the days of overclocking the Core 2s - just watching the MHz numbers go up and wonder why Intel limited them to 2.4GHz or whatever as you hit 4GHz heh.

zola25 · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:20

uksoldierboy said:
What gpu have you gone for?

Oh god don't open another can of worms

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:50

zola25 said:
Oh god don't open another can of worms

Lol sorry, didn't think, he's ignoring me it would seem.

Retron · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:13

Rroff said:
I miss the days of overclocking the Core 2s - just watching the MHz numbers go up and wonder why Intel limited them to 2.4GHz or whatever as you hit 4GHz heh.

Reminds me of fiddling around with jumpers back in the day: I discovered my old 486SX/33 would happily run at 40MHz, but 50 was asking too much of it!

(And even 40 wasn't enough to run Doom smoothly, pah.)

Those old 486SX chips were fun. At one stage they were largely 486DX chips with the maths copro lasered off (and a DX cost a LOT more, of course).
It's a bit like the way quad-core i5s are really the same die as quad-core i7s, just with some of the cache lasered off...

Even AMD did it - anyone remember the pencil trick?

thesuperlouis · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:22

i have no gpu at the moment, but im leaning toward a gigabyte gtx 970 g1 edition?

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 18:11

thesuperlouis said:
i have no gpu at the moment, but im leaning toward a gigabyte gtx 970 g1 edition?

Sounds ok depending on the res you'll be playing at.

thesuperlouis · 28 Oct 2015 at 18:18

1080p... the 980 would be overkill for that res wouldnt it??

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 18:25

thesuperlouis said:
1080p... the 980 would be overkill for that res wouldnt it??

Not at all bud, there's games that will push single Fury X or 980Ti's hard at 1080P, but it totally depends of course on what games your looking at playing.

Sound advice would be to the best you can afford.

zola25 · 28 Oct 2015 at 18:42

^ As above, 980 is a superb fit for 1080/1200p. Only when I moved to 1440p did I find my original 980 began to struggle in some games. The 970 is not much less powerful for far less money.

Agree with buying the best you can afford too.

thesuperlouis · 28 Oct 2015 at 18:48

sound think im going to stick with gtx 970 and maybe double it up for sli in the future, hows that sound to you guys??

uksoldierboy · 28 Oct 2015 at 19:06

thesuperlouis said:
sound think im going to stick with gtx 970 and maybe double it up for sli in the future, hows that sound to you guys??

Me personally wouldn't go with a 970 right now, i'd either get a 980ti or 390, Fury X.

Buy the absolute best you can now, then next year when we get Pascal/Arctic Islands pick up another, or sell and upgrade.

passey89 · 28 Oct 2015 at 19:10

uksoldierboy said:
Me personally wouldn't go with a 970 right now, i'd either get a 980ti or 390, Fury X.

Buy the absolute best you can now, then next year when we get Pascal/Arctic Islands pick up another, or sell and upgrade.

Agree with that.

Go for a card that actually has at least 4gm vram

Some games can use 4gb even at 1080p.

thesuperlouis · 28 Oct 2015 at 19:13

thats a gd point wit the 4gb... the 970 actually 3.5 of actual ram doesnt it, thinking the 390x or 980 now tbh!