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If you already have a 4790k I can't recommend it. Those xeons are best at being ran with a single chip in which case they are like a 4790k or a stock 5820k. You would have better luck if you really do want a multi-threaded beast to buy X99 and pick up one of those cheap $400 14-22 core ES builds. Try to do what you want to do on the 4790k first and see how it goes. If someone is going dual cpu on 1366 and really want to game or something along with multi-thread then you want to pick up X5690s which really makes the cost jump considerably but gives you 3.7GHz turbo.

Lots of the Xeons with the same name will differ greatly even with the same model number but the new revision... v1-v4 adding more cores every time or even changing sockets on the way. The best way is to search on Intel Ark and find what you need and then searching that model # exactly on your retailer website.
 
Example. E5-2670 and the E5 2670 v3
 
You can see that by the third revision it is on the 2011v3 socket instead of 2011, and also is now a 12 core intead of the original 8 core and even the clock speed has changed.
http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI
http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-v3-30M-Cache-2_30-GHz
 
 

Actually 1366 is about the longest lasting best performance platform in the history of computing because Intel didn't know yet how long the Xeons would last as upgrades once they were decommissioned out of servers and available for $80 second hand instead of $1700 new retail. Literally just swapping in an X5650 or an X5675 and making sure you have a decent cooler and OC it and then upgrading to the newest GPU that you can afford is all you need to do. No other platform can still give you excellent performance 6 years later the way 1366 has. That is why all Xeons are locked now and can't be OC'ed.

Makes perfect sense now
 
 
Yes I know

Definitely go 6 whether you think you need it now or not.

Delid will help, use CLU not CLP, CLU is better

Well, I assume you know the motherboard will only work for the 6800k, as the skylake will need a z170 board. Moving on,
 
Go with the broadwell if you can afford it (assuming at least some workloads will benefit). Yes, the skylake is theoretically faster for most games, but I have yet to see a title that will be bottlenecked by a 6800k. So if it will provide you with a benefit in your other workloads, may as well go for it.

Step one: get a job
Step two: profit.
 
What do you currently have?

Be sure and buy plenty of extra tubing, you will waste tons of it on the first few tries especially if you have any complicated bends with more than two bends unless you take your time and measure them out.

No.... X5650 or X5675.
 
X5675 is 75% more powerful than an i7 960 in multi-threaded apps. ~$80

No.... X5650 or X5675.
 
X5675 is 75% more powerful than an i7 960 in multi-threaded apps. ~$80

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Generally the rule of thumb is 2GB of RAM per thread... 3GB in extremely heavy 4k rendering.You have 20 threads. I'd try 64GB in a 16X4 kit first and see how it runs before jumping higher.

Are you in the US, can you link what kits you're looking at?
I can look on newegg and find you some ram. Yeah you can run two 32GB kits together if they are the same timings and clock. I would personally try to stick to identical RAM if I was pairing two 32GB kits together though. Mix and match will probably work fine but if you can avoid it I would. 

I mean... As long as all the other ones are connected... You could always just unscrew it and leave it out.

Yeah if you bought this. :"Kingston 2x 16GB HyperX Fury Black DDR4 2400MHz CL15 PC Ram" I would try to get the same thing in the future to hit your 64GB target that you want. But if you can't find it when the time comes you should be alright just grabbing another kit of comparable 16GB sticks to add. Personally though I would try to match it up if nothing else because I'm kind of a stickler about looks as much as performance lol.

Zen maybe too... supposed to be about like getting the 6900k for the price of a 6800k, maybe it will live up to the hype. Still hearing Jan-Feb last I checked. 

So this was cheap, less than $20 for the sandpaper pad/sponge and Plastix polish.
 
Sandpaper pad is 3000 grit, I wet it down really good and slapped it on the bathroom counter, the water caused it to stick to counter pretty good where it stayed in place where I didn't have to hold it. 5-10 minutes of sanding per side. Then with a very soft microfiber cloth I used a generous amount of Plastix (adding more as needed) and sat down and polished each piece for probably 20-30 minutes easily. Basically just sat down and watched some netflix while polishing away. Rinsed with warm water when I was done, possibly polishing a second time if needed. Here are the results.
 
 





 
 

So this was cheap, less than $20 for the sandpaper pad/sponge and Plastix polish.
 
Sandpaper pad is 3000 grit, I wet it down really good and slapped it on the bathroom counter, the water caused it to stick to counter pretty good where it stayed in place where I didn't have to hold it. 5-10 minutes of sanding per side. Then with a very soft microfiber cloth I used a generous amount of Plastix (adding more as needed) and sat down and polished each piece for probably 20-30 minutes easily. Basically just sat down and watched some netflix while polishing away. Rinsed with warm water when I was done, possibly polishing a second time if needed. Here are the results.
 
 





 
 

That looks like glass... I might do this on any future waterblocks I get.

That's some damn fine polishen there........ damn fine.

About $40USD for the cpu, $80-$100USD for the board, and $30-$40USD for the ram.
 
Total $150 - $180USD.

So this was cheap, less than $20 for the sandpaper pad/sponge and Plastix polish.
 
Sandpaper pad is 3000 grit, I wet it down really good and slapped it on the bathroom counter, the water caused it to stick to counter pretty good where it stayed in place where I didn't have to hold it. 5-10 minutes of sanding per side. Then with a very soft microfiber cloth I used a generous amount of Plastix (adding more as needed) and sat down and polished each piece for probably 20-30 minutes easily. Basically just sat down and watched some netflix while polishing away. Rinsed with warm water when I was done, possibly polishing a second time if needed. Here are the results.
 
 





 
 

Keep 16GB of ram that is plentyyy... keep the current setup, spend that extra money you are wanting to spend to jump from a 1070 to a 1080 or a 1080Ti.

With a 1060 no not really.... and your ram is definitely not a bottleneck. As long as you can run near 1600 you have plenty of through put on DDR3, its often easier to tighten timings on DDR3 than to overclock it as well. My old 1366 rig I could tighten my cas 9 sticks to cas 7 timings all day but the system absolutely would refuse to boot with ram in the 1800s. If anything you can attempt to tighten timings but as long as your sticks are 1600 Cas 9 or better you are plenty ok.
 
Your monitor should last you for years as a very nice setup I would suggest doing a completely new build in a year or two on the LGA 2066 platform when it comes out and when HBM2 becomes standard on GPUs and 3D X Point is hitting the mainstream market. Since you just picked up a 1060 recently which fits perfect with your 2500k I would say just wait and hold off for now unless your money is burning a hole in your pocket.