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1 hour ago, brighttail said:

With any Intel chip in 1-1 1/2 years it is replaced.  Yeah the x99 will be replaced within a year, great!  Does that mean that the current x99s will be obsolete?  Hell no.   The Z170 processors will be good for another 12-18 months and boom replaced.

 

So wait for the new ones, keep the old ones after the new ones come out...doesn't really hurt one way or the other except in your wallet.

I plan on building a new PC in about a year. Would it be better for me to go with the new X chipset, or still stick with X99?

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1 hour ago, AndyKala said:

Z170 is better for gaming, and X99 will be replaced in about a year. Currently, Skylake is a better choice for gamers. I for one, love X99, but I am scared of buying because I feel it is going to be replaced by X109 or Y01.

Out with the old in with the new. Both platforms, no matter what, will get replace by something better. How long your computer last, isn't about that brand new socket for that brand new CPU, it's depends on how long you want it to last. My old computer before I got this X99 was a socket 775. Now if I want the bleeding edge, my old computer would not have lasted more than 6 months, cause right around the corner was the X58 Nahalem, the very first Core i7. But I don't need that, so I kept my computer for as long as I can, until one of the major components finally broke down, and that's when I upgraded to X99. So instead of making small jumps by upgrading every time a new platform comes out, upgrade in huge leaps, so you can get newer technologies and features that's not available with older gen parts.

 

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44 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Out with the old in with the new. Both platforms, no matter what, will get replace by something better. How long your computer last, isn't about that brand new socket for that brand new CPU, it's depends on how long you want it to last. My old computer before I got this X99 was a socket 775. Now if I want the bleeding edge, my old computer would not have lasted more than 6 months, cause right around the corner was the X58 Nahalem, the very first Core i7. But I don't need that, so I kept my computer for as long as I can, until one of the major components finally broke down, and that's when I upgraded to X99. So instead of making small jumps by upgrading every time a new platform comes out, upgrade in huge leaps, so you can get newer technologies and features that's not available with older gen parts.

 

I have an extremely old PC as well, I don't want to buy X99, and than next an entirely new chipset is released. I don't even plan on up gradding for like 10 months. Wouldn't getting the newer platform be a better idea?

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2 minutes ago, AndyKala said:

I have an extremely old PC as well, I don't to buy X99, and than next an entirely new chipset is released. I don't even plan on up gradding for like 10 months. Wouldn't getting the newer platform be a better idea?

Then get it when you need it. No need for both X99 or Z170.

 

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I agree "...upgrade in huge leaps..."  My current system Asus Crosshair motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+, 8 GB Corsair RAM, Geforce 8600 GTS, Originally with Vista 64 but I upgraded to Debian.  Built this system 10 years ago, and it is still running strong.  After building many systems for others I've finally decided to build myself something a little less archaic and turn this system into a NAS.

Only real reason for a new build is I can not dvr my tv shows on this system it doesn't have enough balls!  Oh and I can't stand waiting 2 seconds for OpenOffice or Firefox to load! :)

 

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i am upgradeing my pc to asus x99 deluxe 2 motherboard what i want to find out if i will have enouf pci-e lanes to run everything on the board and the outher stuff i will pluge into it? using the i7 5820k 28 pci-e lane cpu. hear is a list of what is going on the board invida gt 740 ftw sound blaster x sound card tv tuner cart thunderbolt ex 3 card 4 hdd's 2 ssd's 1 dvd burner 1 blue ray burner. or should i go with the i7 5930k 40 pci-e lane cpu?

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I honestly saw very little gain from going from an I7 980 to a 6850k, but I saw lots more gains in having Sata 3 for my raided SSDs.

 

Intel's higher end CPUs last for a very long time, so long that the motherboard is what ends up needing to be replaced first.

Linus is my fetish.

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hi bros i`m planning to build a new pc but i wonder what cpu should i use the i7 6800k or the i7 6700k  please reply

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On 9/13/2016 at 5:56 AM, linusfantech said:

hi bros i`m planning to build a new pc but i wonder what cpu should i use the i7 6800k or the i7 6700k  please reply

budget and 3 uses for the pc please :)

that will help me help you

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x99 or bust

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Hi guys, i dont exactly understand this.  I checked on intel website that the xeon 1231, i7 4960k and i7 6700k support max # of pciE lane up to 16 lanes. So if im using the xeon with msi z97 gaming 5 mobo will it be underperforming if it has more than 1 card?

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On 10/2/2016 at 7:25 PM, mahaqmi said:

Hi guys, i dont exactly understand this.  I checked on intel website that the xeon 1231, i7 4960k and i7 6700k support max # of pciE lane up to 16 lanes. So if im using the xeon with msi z97 gaming 5 mobo will it be underperforming if it has more than 1 card?

It means SLI or Crossfire will run in 8x/8x mode using those CPUs. That's fine, in fact that's the common way to do it since most people don't have a $600 40-lane CPU. Current video cards don't really need the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 16x, and the performance difference is near-zero.

 

Other types of PCIe cards (sound/LAN/SSDs/etc.) can use the lanes from the chipset instead, leaving all 16 lanes from the CPU for graphics. Z170 offers 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes, and Z97 has 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes.

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12 hours ago, typographie said:

It means SLI or Crossfire will run in 8x/8x mode using those CPUs. That's fine, in fact that's the common way to do it since most people don't have a $600 40-lane CPU. Current video cards don't really need the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 16x, and the performance difference is near-zero.

 

Other types of PCIe cards (sound/LAN/SSDs/etc.) can use the lanes from the chipset instead, leaving all 16 lanes from the CPU for graphics. Z170 offers 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes, and Z97 has 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes.

So for msi z97 gaming 5 mobo, even though it has 3 pcie 3.0x16 it will run as 2.0x8 for both lane im using sli for? And sorry for the noob question but do all mobo chipset give different extra pcie lane? if so that means as you stated the z170 mobo will not drop the pcie mode to 3.0x8 for my sli setup because it give extra 20 pcie3.0 lane + another 16 pcie lane from the xeon??

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11 hours ago, mahaqmi said:

So for msi z97 gaming 5 mobo, even though it has 3 pcie 3.0x16 it will run as 2.0x8 for both lane im using sli for? And sorry for the noob question but do all mobo chipset give different extra pcie lane? if so that means as you stated the z170 mobo will not drop the pcie mode to 3.0x8 for my sli setup because it give extra 20 pcie3.0 lane + another 16 pcie lane from the xeon??

For any 16-lane CPU, you will get half of those lanes for each card. In your example, it would be PCIe 3.0 8x/8x, or 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes per card. They stay as 3.0, you're just diverting 8 of them to each card. That happens no matter what platform (Haswell or Skylake) that you're using.

 

The CPU and the chipset each have their own PCIe lanes, but the chipset's lanes are limited by the connection speed between the chipset and the CPU. Z97 provides an additional 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes that can run at up to 2.0 4x speed, and Z170 provides an additional 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes that can run at up to 3.0 4x. I don't think these lanes can be used for video cards, and you probably wouldn't want to. The chipset's lanes are useful for stuff like sound cards, network cards, and PCIe SSDs, though, but that means those devices can be added without cutting into lanes allocated to your video card(s).

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2 hours ago, typographie said:

For any 16-lane CPU, you will get half of those lanes for each card. In your example, it would be PCIe 3.0 8x/8x, or 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes per card. They stay as 3.0, you're just diverting 8 of them to each card. That happens no matter what platform (Haswell or Skylake) that you're using.

 

The CPU and the chipset each have their own PCIe lanes, but the chipset's lanes are limited by the connection speed between the chipset and the CPU. Z97 provides an additional 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes that can run at up to 2.0 4x speed, and Z170 provides an additional 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes that can run at up to 3.0 4x. I don't think these lanes can be used for video cards, and you probably wouldn't want to. The chipset's lanes are useful for stuff like sound cards, network cards, and PCIe SSDs, though, but that means those devices can be added without cutting into lanes allocated to your video card(s).

Ok. Got it. Thx very much!

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Wait so... Z170 being able to take an m.2 drive without compromising the GPU lanes, somehow makes it "far superior" than X99 that can deal with at least 28 lanes and up to 40? What kind of logic is this?

 
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1 hour ago, SaladFingers said:

Wait so... Z170 being able to take an m.2 drive without compromising the GPU lanes, somehow makes it "far superior" than X99 that can deal with at least 28 lanes and up to 40? What kind of logic is this?

Never said that? even 28 lane X99 has more expandability

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2 minutes ago, TheProfosist said:

Never said that? even 28 lane X99 has more expandability

I was referring to the OP:

 

On 10/6/2015 at 0:19 PM, Sakkura said:

As for the Core i7-5820K, it offers the well-known 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes directly from the CPU. But again, the chipset offers additional PCIe lanes. In this case, X99 is far inferior to Z170, because it only offers 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes (just like Z97).

 

It implies that X99 is inferior to Z170 because of the rare occasion that one would need to add an obscene amount of PCI peripherals *other* than graphics cards. In reality that's actually less flexible.

 
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On 10/6/2016 at 8:08 AM, typographie said:

For any 16-lane CPU, you will get half of those lanes for each card. In your example, it would be PCIe 3.0 8x/8x, or 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes per card. They stay as 3.0, you're just diverting 8 of them to each card. That happens no matter what platform (Haswell or Skylake) that you're using.

 

The CPU and the chipset each have their own PCIe lanes, but the chipset's lanes are limited by the connection speed between the chipset and the CPU. Z97 provides an additional 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes that can run at up to 2.0 4x speed, and Z170 provides an additional 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes that can run at up to 3.0 4x. I don't think these lanes can be used for video cards, and you probably wouldn't want to. The chipset's lanes are useful for stuff like sound cards, network cards, and PCIe SSDs, though, but that means those devices can be added without cutting into lanes allocated to your video card(s).

haswell had more lanes (I believe 16) than that they were just tighter on what you could or couldnt disable that's generally built in like SATA ports, audio, LAN, etc

 

Skylake has 20 lanes when pretty much nothing from the chipset is enabled including SATA ports. The big change was DMI 2.0 to 3.0 which also got you PCI-E 3.0. If you remember 3 SATA III SSDs in RAID 0 was kind of the limit with DMI 2.0.

 

With the speed increase came more lanes basically enough for a M.2 without disturbing anything else. Just remember DMI 3.0 is still roughly PCI-E 3.0 x4 in total bandwidth.

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1 minute ago, SaladFingers said:

I was referring to the OP:

 

 

It implies that X99 is inferior to Z170 because of the rare occasion that one would need to add an obscene amount of PCI peripherals *other* than graphics cards. In reality that's actually less flexible.

Since there is less bandwith total and because a board would literally have to disable SATA and LAN to get you all 20 lanes for PCI-E slots

 

and yes you can run GPU's through the Chipset. This is how you get crossfire capable boards that are not SLI certified. They run in the x4 slot through the chipset.

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1 minute ago, TheProfosist said:

Since there is less bandwith total and because a board would literally have to disable SATA and LAN to get you all 20 lanes for PCI-E slots

 

and yes you can run GPU's through the Chipset. This is how you get crossfire capable boards that are not SLI certified. They run in the x4 slot through the chipset.

Running a GPU at 4x on an SLI setup isn't exactly the best design... Total bandwidth alone doesn't say a thing. If you can get 40 lanes on your CPU, 4 PCI 3.0 slots, and 2 m.2 slots and get everything to max bandwidth, why would you go with a board that will limit your setup? Just so you can slot an extra soundcard or two? That's rather obsolete...

 
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20 minutes ago, SaladFingers said:

Running a GPU at 4x on an SLI setup isn't exactly the best design... Total bandwidth alone doesn't say a thing. If you can get 40 lanes on your CPU, 4 PCI 3.0 slots, and 2 m.2 slots and get everything to max bandwidth, why would you go with a board that will limit your setup? Just so you can slot an extra soundcard or two? That's rather obsolete...

yes a horrible idea but #marketing

 

wait what? no board would have that many devices usable at once youll run out of physical room first lol

your reply rather confused me.

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6 minutes ago, TheProfosist said:

yes a horrible idea but #marketing

 

wait what? no board would have that many devices usable at once youll run out of physical room first lol

your reply rather confused me.

Yeah I didn't write that properly. I didn't mean you could have all of that at once. 

 

My point is that, having more chipset PCI lanes but less CPU lanes, doesn't make the board superior, because the real life configurations will always be more limited. You can't compare boards without taking into consideration the actual CPUs available to them.

 

PS: Actually the physical room would be enough for quite a few X99 boards though.

 
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2 hours ago, SaladFingers said:

I was referring to the OP:

 

 

It implies that X99 is inferior to Z170 because of the rare occasion that one would need to add an obscene amount of PCI peripherals *other* than graphics cards. In reality that's actually less flexible.

The X99 chipset is far inferior to the Z170 chipset when it comes to PCIe connectivity. 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes vs. 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes is a massive win for Z170.

 

But the CPUs that plug into the two platforms are the other way around, with Haswell-E and Broadwell-E processors featuring more direct PCIe lanes than Skylake etc.

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8 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

The X99 chipset is far inferior to the Z170 chipset when it comes to PCIe connectivity. 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes vs. 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes is a massive win for Z170.

 

But the CPUs that plug into the two platforms are the other way around, with Haswell-E and Broadwell-E processors featuring more direct PCIe lanes than Skylake etc.

Yes and the end result is that with an X99 chipset there are more configuration options. It's a little misleading to directly compare only what the chipset is capable of, when chipsets are designed to work with a CPU in the first place.

 
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