Are you guys going to upgrade to a 6700k when its out?

My rule of thumb is no upgrades till it at least doubles in speed.

I'm on a 3770K running @ 4.4Ghz

With roughly a 20% gain, they still have 80% to go. In 3 years, that's pretty piss poor sad.

I might upgrade my vid card though with HBM2 comes out. Either AMD or NVIDIA
 
DigitalGriffin said:
My rule of thumb is no upgrades till it at least doubles in speed.

I'm on a 3770K running @ 4.4Ghz

With roughly a 20% gain, they still have 80% to go. In 3 years, that's pretty piss poor sad.
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I was on roughly the same schedule too

920 @ 4.0ghx x 4 core
operton 160 @ 2.5ghz x 2 core
Barton 2500+ @ 2ghz
tBird @1.2ghz
Celeron 366 @ 500mhz x2 core
Celeron 300a @ 450mhz
P5 MMX 200 @ 250mhz

A couple were maybe 50% improvements, which we are just now starting to get close to compared to my i7 system, especially if you go a hex core chip. But one of the things I've learned along the way (BP6 2xcelerons) is that single threaded perfomance counts more often than not.
 
obiwansotti said:
I think you might be off a little bit.

The z97 platform supports 8 lanes of PCIe 2.0 and the CPU supports 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/z97-chipset.html
http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz

But what I think we are hearing about the Z170 is that we get 20 Lanes on the mobo connected via a highspeed DMI link to the CPU AND 16 lanes on the CPU.

So Skylake will have 16 lanes for the GPU and the platform will have 20 more for M.2, thunderbolt 3, expansion cards, ect...

The X99 is similiar to the Z97 with 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes so an x99 will have 28 lanes of PCIe 3.0 and 8 lanes for 2.0
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/x99-chipset.html

Z710 - 36 lanes 3.0
X99 - 28 lanes 3.0, 8 lanes 2.0
z97 - 16 lanes 3.0, 8 lanes 2.0
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That makes sense. I hope this to be true.

I can't remember the last time I was this excited for an upgrade. :D
 
obiwansotti said:
I think you might be off a little bit.

The z97 platform supports 8 lanes of PCIe 2.0 and the CPU supports 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/z97-chipset.html
http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz

But what I think we are hearing about the Z170 is that we get 20 Lanes on the mobo connected via a highspeed DMI link to the CPU AND 16 lanes on the CPU.

So Skylake will have 16 lanes for the GPU and the platform will have 20 more for M.2, thunderbolt 3, expansion cards, ect...

The X99 is similiar to the Z97 with 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes so an x99 will have 28 lanes of PCIe 3.0 and 8 lanes for 2.0
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/x99-chipset.html

Z710 - 36 lanes 3.0
X99 - 28 lanes 3.0, 8 lanes 2.0
z97 - 16 lanes 3.0, 8 lanes 2.0
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X99 only has 28 lanes with a 5820K. All other CPUs it's 40 lanes.
 
Just curious I thought I read somewhere that you can't use the M.2 slot on themotherboard with the 5820k because of the lack of lanes...or maybe that is if you SLI...any truth to that?
 
No, would not be a problem with a single GPU and most boards will just drop the speed when running multiple. Comes down to how the lanes are configured, but at least the Asus boards I've seen have no issues with that.
 
HardLiner said:
Just curious I thought I read somewhere that you can't use the M.2 slot on themotherboard with the 5820k because of the lack of lanes...or maybe that is if you SLI...any truth to that?
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You can provided you don't have too many devices installed. Typically in the manual it will denote which slots or resources share lanes with the M.2 slot and what you have to give up if anything to use them.

Blue Fox said:
X99 only has 28 lanes with a 5820K. All other CPUs it's 40 lanes.
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With a 40-lane CPU there are a total of 48 PCIe lanes. 40 PCIe lanes from the CPU and 8 via the PCH. with a 28-lane CPU there are 36 lanes total counting the ones with the PCH. All PCH lanes are unfortunately PCIe 2.0 with X99.
 
As the owner of a 3770k, I don't see any reason to upgrade. At this rate, I won't upgrade until the 10700k is out.
 
jwcalla said:
I guess we can assume that the 6700K will not have VT-d support?
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Good possibility it will. Intel finally added VT-d support to mainstream socket unlocked CPUs with the 4790K. 5775C supports it too.
 
HardLiner said:
Just curious I thought I read somewhere that you can't use the M.2 slot on themotherboard with the 5820k because of the lack of lanes...or maybe that is if you SLI...any truth to that?
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If you have the lanes you can:

For example You can run SLI with M2:

GPU1: 16x
GPU2: 8x
M2: 4x

Adds up to 28.
 
I have been planning to go from ATX to mITX recently. I'll probably just go to this if it's out soon enough and Microcenter has a combo deal on the CPU.
 
dragonageinquisition said:
If you have the lanes you can:

For example You can run SLI with M2:

GPU1: 16x
GPU2: 8x
M2: 4x

Adds up to 28.
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Except, that's not how it works. Most if not all SLI motherboards with a 28-lane CPU will run at 8x8 when two graphics cards installed.
 
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