Some questions for a new PC.

Talshere said:
Oh wow thanks for the responses.



Ill measure it up on my current one. I defiantly want bigger than Ive got but that looks like it might fit the bill. Cheers.



No I did not but if I go for the smaller one I will still need it.



For the price of a Titan I get nearly two 980's which are better performance.



It was my understanding that for gaming inparticular core were very poorly utilized. One of the reasons AMD suffers in gaming as their core are heavily build for multi-threading which games just dont deliver on.



Corsair Professional Series HX1050 1050W Power Supply. Its pins or detachable, so they are both 4 and 8 pin. I had hell with it when I got it wondering why nothing would connect to my (at the time) 260 TI.

I bought it in Dec 2012. So its getting on but it is Corsair. It came with a 5yr warranty or something. Id previously blown up (blue electrical pop, smoke, burning electronics the works) so I figure it was worth getting something that would last. Cheap ass PSU's were guna end up costing me more anyway at the rate I was losing them.



Baby steps. Lets get my first OC PC up and running before I start looking for specialist stuff.





So assuming I choose to go not Skylake, keep the core of the bundle bought as separate purchases but go what:

Asus X99-S - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***30 Saving***

Having to get all the other core of the old bundle I cant really stretch to:

Asus X99-S - Intel Core i7 5930K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***30 Saving***
Asus Rampage V Extreme - Intel Core i7 5930K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***20 Saving***
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X99 is brilliant for gaming, 5960X at 4.7ghz here and it's fantastic. Like I said choosing Skylake over X99 is just plain silly when price similar. 5820k all day long.
 
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I have an i5-6600K... and am happy not to pay any more than £200 just for a small square of metal that will spend it's entire life hidden under a heatsink. But since you want to go higher than that then x99 is of course the most logical choice. Since you will be getting a price-proportional number of extra cores and pci-e lanes for your extra spend / splash out.

Honestly I don't know why I feel so fed up in regards to the i7s. I should just accept the fact that they remain popular for the many other people who actually buy them and remain content / happy with them. And indeed there's nothing inherently wrong with hyperthreading. It's a very sensible and valuable way to extract extra performance from a processor.

Perhaps the real source of my disagreement about the i7 is merely all down to money. The cost of those things. I mean: if the i7 actually sat halfway between the i5 and the 5820K cost-wise. Then that would be a more even spacing with all the other increments of Intel's entire processor lineup.
 
 
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