X99 or Z170

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HalfBakedJake

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Hi Guys,

Short and sweet. Which of these builds would you go for?

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4995-KR) £559.99
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM (CM8064801548435) £299.99
1 x EVGA X99 Micro2 Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard £193.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C16 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M4A2666C16) £129.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
Total : £1,380.90 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



or the skylake

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4995-KR) £559.99
1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail £335.99
1 x Asus Maximus VIII Gene Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060021-WW) £101.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/16) £97.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
Total : £1,360.94 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).




Skylake PRO's
- Built in DAC

Haswell-E PRO's
- 6 cores
 
I'm told that Skylake doesn't add much if anything in the way of performance. The only reason to go for it now is if you think you'll be getting a CPU upgrade before the mobo architecture changes. Otherwise, you may as well stick with the tried and tested.
 
MSTRBKR said:
If only gaming - Skylake. No point having the extra cores when you don't need them imo.
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When the extra cores/threads end up costing no extra though, jump on them y'know.

Besides the extra cores will add some nice overhead for windows when playing games making anything else you decide to do at the time run smoother.

and with upcoming API's (DX12) the extra cores threads may be favourable from the looks of things :).
 
lee32uk said:
Cheaper Ram for the X99 build


YOUR BASKET
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK4/16) £99.95
Total : £99.95 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).




I would go X99 :)

You might want to up the psu a bit if you plan on SLI. Maybe 850W or so. A 650w would be fine for a single card.
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I did go X99 the day after skylake came out as thought it was disappointing have not regretted going x99 5820K

I think the above comment is correct regard SLI and 850W but if you don’t want to go SLi the EVGA 750W is exactly what I got and I can’t hear it.

Only other thing I would suggest is go with a Retail 5820K for the 3 year warranty its worth the money presently £12 difference
:)

Ps overclocked mine to 4.0Ghz on 1.075v on a cheapish Air cooler with reasonable temps the cores vary between 65-68c under AIDA64
 
The general census I am getting is that x99 is the way to go. Tbf the Micro 2 is also the correct colour for the all black theme im going for.

Dual channel or Quad channel for the memory. The Micro 2 only has 4 ram slots unlike the ATX versions so I'm not sure whether I should go for the 4x8gb (future proofing) or to stick with a 4x4gb or even get a dualm channel kit 2x8gb and add 2 later on.
 
Also I was going to put a shroud on the motherboard tray either all plastic or all metal to give it a clean look.

Can the x99 or z170 motherboards overheat if they dont have airflow on the back side of the board? the shroud will only overlap the underneath of the mobo by about 10mm all round.
 
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