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Socket Set Advice

JamASharpe

JamASharpe

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I am about to begin researching parts for a new PC build. I am fortunate enough on this occasion to be able to get anything I want with no real concern about finances so I want the highest end PC possible.


I have been looking at i7 CPUs and loved the look of the MSI GodLike gaming MoBo but this mobo is on a socket 1151 set. A friend has just suggested I go for the 2066 (x299) chipset though.


I've just looked at MoBos in this chipset and there are some very nice ones, however, I cannot really see any 8th generation i7's (all seem to be prefixed with a '7').


Is the 2066 (x299) chipset much better than the 1151 chipset? I know it is a newer chipset but it doesn't really have the range of CPUs available at the moment. Possibly as the chipset has only been around for a while.


I would really like an 8th gen i7/i9 with a base clock as high as possible (binned around 5GHz) to go with a Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme E-ATX LGA2066 MoBo.

My question is, would an 2066 (x299) chipset be the most future proof, offer the best performance and is it worth the inflated price compared to the 1151 chipset?
 
It depends on the chipset. Socket 1151 is a dead end with all of the current chipsets. That might change with the Z390 chipset if Intel decide to release a 8 core 16 thread chip in the future. A move like that would be pretty topical though as an 8 core 1151 chip will put socket 1151 in direct completion with socket 2066.
 
Generally speaking, since you want clockspeed and an i7, you are looking at an 8700k and a Z370 board. I personally think the Z370 boards are short on USB ports, but otherwise the chipset is reasonably well featured. The only reason to go for the x chipset/sockets is for extra pci e lanes. That's relevant if you plan on utilising a lot of solid state storage that isn't running of sata ports, or if you want crazy multi gpu setups (crazy because they aren't well supported these days). So yeah, get an 8700k, or go last gen with a 7700k and save some cash if you don't need the core count.
 
jigger said:
It depends on the chipset. Socket 1151 is a dead end with all of the current chipsets. That might change with the Z390 chipset if Intel decide to release a 8 core 16 thread chip in the future. A move like that would be pretty topical though as an 8 core 1151 chip will put socket 1151 in direct completion with socket 2066.
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Thanks for this.
 
Devrij said:
Generally speaking, since you want clockspeed and an i7, you are looking at an 8700k and a Z370 board. I personally think the Z370 boards are short on USB ports, but otherwise the chipset is reasonably well featured. The only reason to go for the x chipset/sockets is for extra pci e lanes. That's relevant if you plan on utilising a lot of solid state storage that isn't running of sata ports, or if you want crazy multi gpu setups (crazy because they aren't well supported these days). So yeah, get an 8700k, or go last gen with a 7700k and save some cash if you don't need the core count.
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Thank you. Very useful.

I would like a m2 set up. How many of these I'm not sure yet. I'll probably only be going for the one gc for now. Maybe two depending on rendering times for 3d animation.

An 8700k is going to be the way forward.

So the real comparison is between z370 and x299. Interesting. That'll give me something to focus on for now.
 
Yeah, now that we have 6 core i7 chips, which overclock quite well if you can keep them cool, it's hard to justify spending extra on the slower clocked Broadwell chips.

Most Z370 boards will have 2 m. 2 storage ports, but using both will just limit the pcie lanes available for additional gpu's. Not really a concern for single gpu users, and not a hugely limiting factor anyway as pcie 3 is plenty fast at x8 (x4 is going to reduce performance a bit though).
 
If money isn’t an issue and you want the best possible performance now and in the future than go with x299.
You will get a lot more pci-e lanes for all your m.2 storage and cpus with up to 18 cores that overclock very well you also get quad channel memory.
With Z370 max you can get is 6 cores, lot less pcie lanes and dual channel memory.
 
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