Upgrade from Q6600

[Frank Jeagar]

Socket 1150 board with a 1155 cpu? What kind of crazy recommendation is that?

One that is so awful I have no explanation other than I ****ed up... My bad :/

Z68 is what you want, sorry guys!

 

[Frank Jeagar]

Thanks for catching that PooKer!!!

 

[dessimpson]

Lol, it depends on you use case. If you are exclusively playing games then a 5930k was a pointless buy.

If you are using a load of software in the background maybe virtual machines some photoshop and vegas ect and then want to get game without closing them as the OP does the more cores you have the better and a hex core shines in multi tasking when side by side with a quad core. A hex core would start to clog up having a few intense programs running.

Again it really depends on how the person is going to use it.

I went X99 / 5930k purely for the 40 lanes PCI-E and the onboard M2 SSD.
The 40 lanes was a waste of time, and the Samsung SM951 went belly up, so has been replaced with a normal M2 SSD. So, a double fail on my part

I had also planned to use it for VM's but I got a cheap 12 core Dell server for that purpose.

 

[theaterix]

Ive just went from my sig to the 5820k and Gigabyte X99-SLI bundle on OCUK for £430. Getting it at christmas, but will be a HUGE upgrade for me.
If you have the money, id recommend this or the 4790k and 16gb of ram, especially for photoshop, chrome and FO4.

The 4790k will be extremely useful to you, but if you would like to save the money, the 4690k will do the job, but just some ideas for you!