In your opinion. The majority of PC gamers say otherwise.
My Titan X's are working well for me at 4k. But in many games there is definitely room for improvement.
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In your opinion. The majority of PC gamers say otherwise.
I think time to upgrade from my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz E6700 Conroe CPU.
As a 2500K owner I'm probably going to upgrade (reluctantly) but as some reviews suggest, I'm going to wait until there are better mobos out there to take full advantage.
Unless it's 4k I don't care. You guys can hang onto the past I really don't care. The tired memes of PCIE doesn't really matter, DDR4 doesn't matter, extra cores are useless is starting to crack. I'll catch a bench here and there showing a few frame increase here and there. Maybe average frames the same but minimums way up. You can start to see it and peice it together that these old platforms are aging.
Be defensive all you want about the platform you're on and justify why you're not spending money on the newest stuff, but I though my this was [H], shouldn't we all be on 4k by now trying to scape together every few frames we can get?
Zarathustra[H];1041778850 said:Some yes, some no.
Even some 5 year old games don't run satisfactorily on two 980ti's at 4k. (Metro 2033 is an example)
4 years ago called; They have your upgrade.
I don't know about that. But I'm running Witcher 3 @ 4k on my 4.4GHz 3770k 980Ti SLI setup with almost all the features jacked up just fine. When I get to the point I can't run current gen games anymore I'll just add another card.
I plan on upgrading to Skylake because my motherboard is borked, otherwise I wouldn't bother, so I should do even better afterwards.
Are there going to be any Skylake motherboards with Tri-SLI support? All the ones I could find are limited to 2-way SLI (plenty of them have 3 and 4 way Crossfire). I'd like to be able to add another card if I ever get to that point.
Skylake only has 20 PCI-E lanes, so the best you're going to get with Tri-SLI is x8/x4/x4. You would be better off going Haswell-E or waiting for (presumably) Skylake-E.
While you're not wrong about the Tri-SLI PCI-E config, doesn't Skylake have 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes direct to CPU, and up to an additional 20x PCI-E 3.0 from the Z170 chipset?Skylake only has 20 PCI-E lanes, so the best you're going to get with Tri-SLI is x8/x4/x4. You would be better off going Haswell-E or waiting for (presumably) Skylake-E.
Problem is my motherboard is screwed. Among one of the problems is that I can't seem to get the RAID controller on it to play nicely with other drives. I really need to upgrade. I have a Z77 Ivy Bridge 3770k @ 4.4GHz. I could just buy another refurbished Z77 motherboard but I figure as long as I'm replacing it...
What would be the best way to go?
Skylake only has 20 PCI-E lanes, so the best you're going to get with Tri-SLI is x8/x4/x4. You would be better off going Haswell-E or waiting for (presumably) Skylake-E.
Got tired of waiting and ordered a 5820k + GB UD3P X99 Mobo for $460 with tax. Hard to beat. Already have a h100i and 32GB of super cheap crucial DDR4 lying around. Skylake was not meant to be.
looked into this.. the CPU costs as much as the 6700k, the motherboards are similar and the ram is similar. Why not just get this?
you get two full pcie 3 16x/16x. you get a 6 core cpu instead of a 4...
Am i missing something?
looked into this.. the CPU costs as much as the 6700k, the motherboards are similar and the ram is similar. Why not just get this?
you get two full pcie 3 16x/16x. you get a 6 core cpu instead of a 4...
Am i missing something?
Are you saying 6700K has six cores?
While you're not wrong about the Tri-SLI PCI-E config, doesn't Skylake have 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes direct to CPU, and up to an additional 20x PCI-E 3.0 from the Z170 chipset?
At least that's my impression from the architectural overview:
And according to Intel ARK, the 6700k's PCI-E 3.0 configuration goes up to 16x for CPU only.
While you're not wrong about the Tri-SLI PCI-E config, doesn't Skylake have 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes direct to CPU, and up to an additional 20x PCI-E 3.0 from the Z170 chipset?
At least that's my impression from the architectural overview:
And according to Intel ARK, the 6700k's PCI-E 3.0 configuration goes up to 16x for CPU only.
What was the TDP of the CPU at max overclock?
with a bit of staples pm help , the 5820k is $283 right now less if you have coupons and gift cards. Good second gen x99 boards can now be has for $190 so the platform cost is the same. I would rather have 10 data 3 and 16 usb ports rather than 6 data and 14 USB ports. My cost for the CPU and board was only $460 which is going to be hard to match with 6700k in the near term. Plus x99 boards are generally better built.
price matched against microcenter?
I'm up in seattle and I can't figure out how to get the 5820K for anywhere near that price.
I just bought a 6600K cos Ebuyer has stock and are cheaper than everywhere else.
Plan is to get a cheap DDR3 board and use my 8GB DDR3 2400.
Total cost will be less than half that of a 6700K system.
I checked DDR3 vs DDR4 performance on Skylake and the few places that have posted comparisons show practically no difference.
And another 8GB DDR3 is around 1/2 the price of 8GB DDR4.
A no brainer budget upgrade.
Anybody know how to get that via the internet?
It looks like the Haswell-E is a smarter buy. I doubt there will be a Broadwell-E, though. Still upgrading to a 10 core Xeon down the road should be a nice easy upgrade should you find $2000 laying around. MASSIVE e-peen.
It looks like the Haswell-E is a smarter buy. I doubt there will be a Broadwell-E, though. Still upgrading to a 10 core Xeon down the road should be a nice easy upgrade should you find $2000 laying around. MASSIVE e-peen.
Murder it at what? Games? NoYep if you gotta go with DDR4 for Skylake, might as well go H-E.
I'd rather spend the extra $40 (or less given current *51 board prices) and get 2 more Haswell cores. An overclocked 5820k will murder the 6700k, even if the latter is overclocked.