2011 v3 or 1151 questions on upgrade path.

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Hey guys...i am looking to upgrade from my I5 2500k z68 setup. I have $1200 to spend on a new mobo, cpu, RAM, and water cooling for the CPU.

I was lookin at the egg and of course all the 6th gen i7 cpu's are out of stock.

My question is....what would be the best upgrade path? Wait for the 6th gen CPU's to come back in stock, or go ahead with a2011 v3 build?

I was looking at a gigabyte board in socket 2011 v3
a I7 5930k with 40 pcie lanes.

Gskill quad channel DDR4 3000 Ram

and a Hyperx 240gb Pcie SSD.

Silverstone CPU water cooling

I already have 2x 980 Ti cards for SLI.

The toal on these partsd would be 1160$ within my budget.

Solid setup? Anyone have any different suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
 
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If you have a Microcenter, then try them. If you do, then you will and a major choice because the 5930k's are $400. The I7 6700k's are in stock in store. I am in the same situation. In 2016, they are refreshing the Haswell-E (forgot the name of the next one). Since you going SLI, you get more PCI-E lanes. Go 5820, wait for upgrade and get the new x99 MB and CPU next year.
 
Personally I choose 2011 because the end game is a lot higher than 1150 or 1151. Example the end game for the 1150 was pretty much a 4790k. It was nice and all but that was the end. When on sale the 5820K is roughly the same price as the 4790k but you can upgrade to the 5930 and higher over time just in case you need it.
 
Definitely X99 route with that SLI GPU setup.

You can feed both cards the full 3.0 x16 lane spec, as well as leave space for a PCI-E x4 SSD.

With the 5390K @ $400 and a LGA1151 build requiring DDR4 anyways, i know where i would be heading :cool:
 
CaNNoN said:
56 views and no one has anything to add? Thanks for nothing!
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2 hours from your original post.. impatient much, and with attitude like that your going to get even less responses now...

56 views just means 56 curious people, but perhaps none with something to reply with...
 
Thanks for the replies! I am going to go with the x99. I require the 40 PCIe lanes.....you guys make good poitns and i thank your for the time you took to reply.

MrGuvernment....shove it. Hows that for attitude?
 
end game if you need the extra cores, with a future broadwell E or xeon

however if you need more cores, and can live without the PCIe lanes, get 1151. The endgame hopefully after a bios update will yield you entry into cannonlake and intels rumored upgrade to more cores in the refresh.
 
CaNNoN said:
Thanks for the replies! I am going to go with the x99. I require the 40 PCIe lanes.....you guys make good poitns and i thank your for the time you took to reply.

MrGuvernment....shove it. Hows that for attitude?
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Internet tough guy, shaking in ma boots!
 
If you are going SLI, 2011 allows you to use both lanes at x16, and you won't get that performance out of the 1151. However, 2011 motherboard prices are insane. I have a feeling money isn't a big concern here.
 
Look at the benches -- full lanes for 980Ti SLI don't matter. You can actually get better performance from Skylake, even, in some cases (GTA V for example). If you're going Tri-SLI it makes sense, otherwise forget X99 and having "full lanes."

There's a lot of parroting when it comes to high end SLI setups. I suspect this is because even somewhere like here not /that/ many people have them. You wouldn't believe the number of time I've told me I'm an idiot to run 980Ti SLI with a 2500K, but I'm getting pretty much solid 60+ FPS in even the most demanding AAA titles like The Witcher 3 at 3440x1440. That's good enough for me.
 
I'd go for a 5930K and X99 MoBo for x16 + x16 SLI. Just because. :)
 
get x99
find one that has xeon support for future upgrades.
make sure you use 4 sticks of ram or x99 is a bit of a waste.
go for the cheapest proxesor for now as 28 lanes is fine for now even with 980ti in sli
 
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