X99 board with a 6700K?

Why would there be anything wrong with using an X99 board with a 6700K?

A 1060 doesn't cost much more than a 480 and performs better so it certainly doesn't suck compared to a 480.  The only thing definitively better about a 480 might be the cost assuming a 480 could be found for cheaper. 

I think you got the wrong mobo @LAwLz.

@AlexTheRose dude, just let her pick out the parts. I believe she's got it all sorted out after the CPU/mobo combo is taken care of.

Oops.

I meant the 6800K. I blame Intel's naming scheme for my mix-up

Alex I went for the 1060 because the pricing on the 480 sucks here in Sweden. The cheapest one in stock cost 3000 SEK (reference cooler as well). This 1060 costs 3300.

So with the 1060 I am getting slightly better price:performance (the 1060 is about 13% faster than the 480 on average) but also it is much quieter, generates less heat, has better power efficiency, and better software support (CUDA and NVENC).

The 1060 seems like the better option to me. I was considering the 480 though.

Ah, it happens to the best of us.

Pricing of the RX 480 and the GTX 1060 seem to vary quite a lot depending on country. Here in Sweden the RX 480 is a lot more expensive than it should be, and the GTX 1060 is very reasonably priced compared to the US (I could have gotten a Zotac or Palit 1060 for 2800 SEK, but I wanted the better cooler).

So right now you can get a 1060 for less than the 480 here in Sweden.

Something to note is that there are no 4GB models of the 480 in Sweden, at all. Things might change once that comes out, but I don't feel like waiting.

@LAwLz Yeah. That's why I also chose Nvidia over AMD. Where I live, electricity isn't cheap on a per-month basis, and I also get better software compatibility with the 3D applications I use (3ds Max in particular).

Though I will soon upgrade my GTX 960 4GB to the Nvidia TITAN X GPU, not just for the lawlz factor, but also for incredibly fast GPU rendering in Nvidia Iray.

Though for pricing, that goes to all of today's GPUs. They're outrageous with very short supplies on top of that .

@AlexTheRose Hey I am also on a laptop in the meantime. Had to return the Rampage V Edition 10 over to the dicks called OneDealOutlet (AKA BTE Computers) after they made me cough up almost $40 to ship it back to them because the SupremeFX Hi-Fi was defective. I will still get the motherboard, just from Amazon.com instead with Prime shipping.

What surprised me though about that motherboard, that thing's $599.99 and it's out of stock. The one I'm going for says "Usually ships between 2 to 5 weeks". So I hope to get it before August 23 for my Fall semester in college so I can do 3D animation and modeling on it and not on my infernal, 4-year old Asus ROG G75VW laptop.

Oh and top of that, they wouldn't reimburse me on the shipping part or send out a working mobo overnight.

I know your pain. Hope you get your PC up and running soon.

Jurunce, the new Titan X? Sounds like quite the upgrade. What do you use 3DS MAX for?

@LAwLz http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/titan-x-pascal

Yeah. I hope to get it up and running ASAP

On the subject of my usage model in 3ds Max and Maya, I use 3ds Max for some modeling and for all of my renderings (mostly in Iray, which is GPU-accelerated), while Maya is for most of the modeling. I can easily export any projects between platforms rather easily, making it pretty slick IMO.

That's why I am going for the TITAN X, and also why I chose the 5930K processor in the first place.

Uh, is that an X99 mobo with a 6700k, or am I nuts?

@h264 I meant to write 6800K.

oh good, that would've been a disaster otherwise.  Why 6800k over 6700k anyways?

Cheaper than the 6850K, even though it has 28 lanes compared to the 40 the 6850K offers, and it runs a little slower at 3.4 GHz out of the box.

but the 6700k is cheaper on all fronts, and outperforms on single threaded tasks while only giving up two cores.

If she's doing things like video editing and/or 3D animation (me here ), then the two extra cores makes sense.

If I built my computer to be the ultimate gaming rig, then yeah, I would have gone Z170 instead of X99.

Yes I was debating whether or not I should go with the 6700K or the 6800K. I do lots of things that can benefit from having more than 4 cores though so I thought, why the hell not? In the end, it didn't affect the cost all that much either. It was like 20% more expensive than a Z170 system, and it should perform about 20% better in many situations (at stock, and it will pull away even more when overclocked).