Upgrade suggestions?

Fanaticjam

Fanaticjam

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Looking to get a pretty hefty upgrade for my system soon (tm - when money sorts itself out).


Current rig is

i5 2500K
16GB DDR3 1600MHZ BallistiX
670 GTX

1 x 64GB SSD for OS
2 x 256GB SSD in raid for software
2 x 2TB HDD for data
1 x 320GB HDD (Spare storage - can throw out)


Am looking at getting the following:

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+ 1 more 2TB HDD + a 4TB external for backups + upgrade OS SSD to 120 or 250 capacity as small one has created loads of issues.

A friend suggested looking at the I7-5820K - the benchmarks are interesting for the two, but there's no clear winner. Computer is mostly used for gaming, but I also do video+photo editing + want to expand into 3D design with Maya.

Any suggestions on which core to go with, or alternative builds?
 
As you are into video editing, I'd strongly suggest going down the X99 and 5820K route. The two extra cores and four extra threads will be very beneficial to you.

Also, scrap the 850 EVO and look at an SM951, get a PCI-E M.2 drive if you're buying new. They are capable of >2GBps (not a typo!) reads and they use NVMe (make sure you get an NVMe one!) which in itself is much faster than AHCI.
 
That's a sweet idea, having a quick look atm.

I'd like to keep the system ready for a 2nd GPU + double the RAM, so only looking at dual chan + trying to work out which mobo would be needed. Also need to have 3 6GB/s SATA slots + 4 other SATA connections (got a bluray drive I want to keep).

Any suggestions mobo wise for the X99 build?

I keep seeing stuff like this

"* When an i7-5820K CPU is installed, the PCIE_2 slot operates at up to x8 mode and the PCIE_3 operates at up to x4 mode."

Would that be fast enough for 2 980ti's?
 
You only need 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 lanes for SLI, performance dropping from x16 to x8 is probably around 2% or so, and not worth fussing over.

The issue with the 5820K is that it doesn't have as many lanes as the 5930K, but the 5930K is a lot more expensive for basically the same thing. In my mind, if you're getting two cards, the 5820K is fine. If memory serves me rightly, the 5820K has 28 PCI-E 3.0 lanes and the 5930K has 40; therefore, there's enough for 2x x16 lanes and some spares as well.

If it were me, for a dual card set up, I'd be looking at the 5820K unless you've got money to blow.
 
Your options are i5-6600K, i7-6700K, or i7-5820K. If you're "mostly gaming" as it says in the OP I think Skylake would be the better option for you. Yes you get two more cores with the 5820K but it's often slower in games and the motherboards cost a premium.

But, you haven't said what games you're playing and what monitor resolution you use.
 
I have 2 of these. I tend to play games in borderless on one screen with utilities(TS/Chrome/Slack etc) on the second, though I also play EVE online and I would like to be able to handle 6 clients minimum on max or near max settings - these I run across both screens.

Other games are Siege (mostly this right now), ARMA 3, LoL, The Division, might get into Rust again if friends want to etc.

The only future game I have my eye on atm is Warhammer Total War, but naturally I'd like this rig to last 4 years minimum or so, maybe 6 with a 2nd gpu+ram added.

Edit: Don't have money to burn, bigger budget than usual as I got a new job, but I want to be smart with the money.
 
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Thoughts on this? I'm not sure the Mobo will handle the M2 drive though, the amount of SATA ports should be enough for my planned selection of drives + I think PCI will be good.

I'm not sure how well my current PSU will handle a TI, its a 650W Antec semi modular one and over 4 years old iirc. If I get a new one I want to make sure it can handle 2 TI's. Otherwise I'd just upgrade whenever I get a 2nd TI
 
X99 all way the difference a skylake i7 will make for games will be so minuscule but the difference in being able to run multiple apps will be better from x99
 
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