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Full Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/2bFRu4z
 

Handy Xeon Chart spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/2bqAx1E
 

Buy Core i7 6700K on Amazon: http://geni.us/ZIir
 

Buy Core i7 6800K on Amazon: http://geni.us/2Wj7B
 

Buy Core i5 6600K on Amazon: http://geni.us/VwKJ
 

Buy Core i5 6500 on Amazon: http://geni.us/2OuQI8
 

Buy Intel G4400 on Amazon: http://geni.us/zvtG1N
 

Buy Core i3 6100 on Amazon: http://geni.us/Xi5j
 

Buy Core i5 6400T on Amazon: http://geni.us/OFmh9U

Need help picking a CPU? Then look no further my friend - we've got your choices covered!

 

 

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2 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Full Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/2bFRu4z
 

Handy Xeon Chart spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/2bqAx1E
 

Buy Core i7 6700K on Amazon: http://geni.us/ZIir
 

Buy Core i7 6800K on Amazon: http://geni.us/2Wj7B
 

Buy Core i5 6600K on Amazon: http://geni.us/VwKJ
 

Buy Core i5 6500 on Amazon: http://geni.us/2OuQI8
 

Buy Intel G4400 on Amazon: http://geni.us/zvtG1N
 

Buy Core i3 6100 on Amazon: http://geni.us/Xi5j
 

Buy Core i5 6400T on Amazon: http://geni.us/OFmh9U

Need help picking a CPU? Then look no further my friend - we've got your choices covered!

 

 

None because I'm saving for a 1070.

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Xeon 2966 v4 or that was the name i think

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1 minute ago, DeezNoNos said:

Xeon 2966 v4 or that was the name i think

It's Xeon 2699 V4

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Just now, keNNySOC said:

It's Xeon 2699 V4

THX lol.

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Also very important - make sure you buy a real CPU at all :D

 

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2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Also very important - make sure you buy a real CPU at all :D

"OK please note that..." LOL

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Also very important - make sure you buy a real CPU at all :D

 

linus still needs to hit puberty on this one lol

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5 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

linus still needs to hit puberty on this one lol

Wow! Hitting him below the belt, too!

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Just now, ARikozuM said:

Wow! Hitting him below the belt, too!

lol

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44 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Need help picking a CPU? Then look no further my friend - we've got your choices covered!

Just forget all this noise and buy a 6950x you peasants

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29 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

Just forget all this noise and buy a 6950x you peasants

can you buy it? before the 7th or 8th or 20th edition comes out.

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@nicklmg Reckon you can put my table build log in the yt desc ;) 

 

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Hm, currently i have i7-3770 non K, on a Asus Maximus V motherboard (LGA 1155 and z77), 16 gigs of ram, and a 980ti strix factrory overclocked from Asus, Samsung 850 PRO 512 Gig as OS drive, so regarding this theme, should i wait for Kaby lake CPU lineup to hit the market and upgrade for that, or can i still sit on my 3770 non K untill next generation after Kaby lake, which is Cannon Lake if im not mistaken there.

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2 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

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The Best ;)

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finally a video worthy of LTT

 

i just noticed this when i was trying to upgrade a HP Z240 desktop with more RAM and the desktop just gave me memory errors and refuse to boot

 

turns out the HP Z240 system just hates ECC RAM even thou the board is a C236 chipset based mobo

 

but because the CPU used is a i7 6700 (dont ask me ask HP)

 

that was the reason why the ECC RAM didn't work

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no mention of the LGA 2011 E5 2670 on the used cpus? those have 8 cores over the 3960x 6 cores but you can find them for less than $100 at ebay.

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2 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

no mention of the LGA 2011 E5 2670 on the used cpus? those have 8 cores over the 3960x 6 cores but you can find them for less than $100 at ebay.

are the motherboards expensive though?

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

are the motherboards expensive though?

they are IIRC(unless you get the no-name china ones from taobao :P) but he did mention that the motherboards may be harder to find and more expensive(possibly) so i felt that he could have added that in.

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1 minute ago, herman mcpootis said:

they are IIRC(unless you get the no-name china ones from taobao :P) but he did mention that the motherboards may be harder to find and more expensive(possibly) so i felt that he could have added that in.

It's just that if you consider the motherboard and CPU combo (since you'll need both obviously) the cheaper of those two is what's best, not necessarily just the cheapest CPU.

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Eh if you  get anything higher than a 1070 for gaming (or sometimes even a 1070) you should be getting an i7 since there are quite a few which will get a large gain form it, otherwise the rest falls in line with what it should

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