should i wait for x99? or go with Z97?

[1832vin]

I KNOW IT'S OUT

it was out yesterday.

but that is exactly why.  it's all damn expensive, and the product range are limited

 

i require it by 27/10/14

and my budget is £1500 (that includes shipping)(+ monitor, never had a desktop)

the most taxing program that i use is blender(FYI, it only uses VRAM)

and i want to watercool both CPU and GPU

 

i either buy z97-4790k + 780ti (MATX)

or wait

and buy:

x99 + GTX 980 (wait for MATX board, cheaper DDR4, GTX 980)

(they seemed to skipped the 800 naming)

 

the second option is that is GTX 980 gonna be released by then,

would they have a waterblock for GTX 980, and is there gonna be cheaper DDR4 memory

and would they have released the MATX X99

[Jobbe03]

980? 

 

We haven't even heard about the damn 880 yet

[Captain_Slow]

Im going to assume that this is going to be a gaming desktop

 

the first rule in building a game desktop is:

 

buy the best GPU you can afford and make sure it doesnt get bottlenecked.

 

Since a 4790k isnt going to bottle a 780ti, or a 980, I would stay away from x99.

[1832vin]

Im going to assume that this is going to be a gaming desktop

 

the first rule in building a game desktop is:

 

buy the best GPU you can afford and make sure it doesnt get bottlenecked.

 

Since a 4790k isnt going to bottle a 780ti, or a 980, I would stay away from x99.

no, i said

BLENDER, it's a 3D -ray tracing program

and much more intensive than Premier pro would get normally

 

and good scenes takes about 9 hours to render a frame

and not, i don't game

[1832vin]

980? 

 

We haven't even heard about the damn 880 yet

as i've just said, they are going to skip the 800 naming to match the mobile lineup:

here's the news:

http://videocardz.com/51426/nvidia-to-skip-geforce-800-series-geforce-gtx-980-and-gtx-970-mid-september

[Jobbe03]

as i've just said, they are going to skip the 800 naming to match the mobile lineup:

here's the news:

http://videocardz.com/51426/nvidia-to-skip-geforce-800-series-geforce-gtx-980-and-gtx-970-mid-september

Videocardz is not a reputable source. 

[NUFCThomas]

980? 

 

We haven't even heard about the damn 880 yet

They are apparently renaming the 800 series to the 900 series to avoid confusion with 800m series

[Captain_Slow]

no, i said

BLENDER, it's a 3D -ray tracing program

and much more intensive than Premier pro would get normally

 

and good scenes takes about 9 hours to render a frame

and not, i don't game

 

sorry i missed that part,

 

is it heavily multithreaded?

 

in any case I would still stick with z97, but if your program utilizes double precision flops i would get a titan instead

[1832vin]

sorry i missed that part,

 

is it heavily multithreaded?

 

in any case I would still stick with z97, but if your program utilizes double precision flops i would get a titan instead

why? and no, does not benefit from double precision,

[Ciano]

i say hold on the 5820k is looking good but we'll only know for sher when we see some benchmarks but the x99 will be a longer lived platform than z97

[1832vin]

i say hold on the 5820k is looking good but we'll only know for sher when we see some benchmarks but the x99 will be a longer lived platform than z97

would it be realistic if i say i would like to use the same computer until DDR4 is out phased?  would modern components live that long?

cuz i know that older computers could.  i still had a computer which is from the pre-ddr and it still works fine

[Kryptyx]

Go Z97 and 780ti.

[Captain_Slow]

would it be realistic if i say i would like to use the same computer until DDR4 is out phased?  would modern components live that long?

cuz i know that older computers could.  i still had a computer which is from the pre-ddr and it still works fine

It would live that long but new components at that point will be massively faster so you'd be really tempted to upgrade

 

if you dont benefit from double precision 780ti is fine, 

 

if your program is heavily multithreaded, or benefit from high memory bandwidth, go with x99 and ddr4 and 5820k

[Queek]

@1832vin

So a quick google found

"There are several levels of CPU allocation that you can use to decrease overall render time by applying more brainpower to the task.

First, if you have a multi-core CPU, you can increase the number of threads, and Blender will use that number of CPUs to compute the render."

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render

 

This suggests to me that more threads is more better for rendering, especially if you're looking at 9h per frame.  Running with that assumption, it would probably be a good idea for you to wait for X99, because you'll be looking at 8 cores with 16 threads if you go for the 5930k or higher.  This will be expensive, but it may be a good purchase in your case, especially if you get a good motherboard (like an ASUS X99-WS for compatibility and overclock it).  A 4790k will only be 4 cores with 8 threads, while achieving similar clock speeds.