JosiahBradley
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Long time reader but infrequent poster finally giving in to the community for some assistance on a personal build. I build a lot of computers for work but it's been 8-9 years since I've built a system for myself and I want to put a lot of extra thought into it. Here is my dilemma:
I don't want to wait any longer to build this system so waiting until Fuy X launches is finally long enough. However it seems that Skylake is about to launch within less than two months. I don't use a ton of storage or need more speed than a regular TB SSD and my main focus for this build is purely gaming. So my choices are the following.
I'm planning on Crossfire Fury X, 32GB RAM minimum and the ASUS MG279Q freesync monitor with:
- X99 w/ 5820k
- X99 w/ 5930k for extra PCI-e for crossfire. Maybe Fury X will actually be able to use the extra bandwidth given it is already pushing it's own RAM so fast, I'd love to see tests on this.
- Z97 w/ 4970K for max IPC
- H97 w/ some cheap i5 and sell the parts when Skylake hits.
So what would be the best platform for such a setup? Thanks to everyone in advance for the assistance and I really look forward to a new system.
I don't want to wait any longer to build this system so waiting until Fuy X launches is finally long enough. However it seems that Skylake is about to launch within less than two months. I don't use a ton of storage or need more speed than a regular TB SSD and my main focus for this build is purely gaming. So my choices are the following.
I'm planning on Crossfire Fury X, 32GB RAM minimum and the ASUS MG279Q freesync monitor with:
- X99 w/ 5820k
- X99 w/ 5930k for extra PCI-e for crossfire. Maybe Fury X will actually be able to use the extra bandwidth given it is already pushing it's own RAM so fast, I'd love to see tests on this.
- Z97 w/ 4970K for max IPC
- H97 w/ some cheap i5 and sell the parts when Skylake hits.
So what would be the best platform for such a setup? Thanks to everyone in advance for the assistance and I really look forward to a new system.