X99 stuff

[khandajatt]

I was wondering from a gaming and editing point of view, which motherboard and chip should I go for? The editing I do is Montague for various games and events. Thanks

[Real_PhillBert]

Since you mentioned gaming first, have you considered Z97 instead of X99? 

 

@khandajatt

[Queek]

I was wondering from a gaming and editing point of view, which motherboard and chip should I go for? The editing I do is Montague for various games and events. Thanks

If you do plenty of editing (that is what you'll primarily use the system for), then X99 might be a good option for you.  

If you're primarily going to be gaming with a little editing on the side, Z97 is probably a better option with a 4790k.  

Which category do you fall into?

[adnank77]

If u will do editing and/or gaming at high resolution and go for 3-Way .. then go X99.

Otherwise Z97 is just fine

[Real_PhillBert]

If u will do editing and/or gaming at high resolution and go for 3-Way .. then go X99.

Otherwise Z97 is just fine

you have to do a lot of editing to really justify X99. Jay from Jay's Two Cents uses a 4790k, and a 4770k before that. 

 

Gaming at high resolutions will benefit more from spending more of your budget on GPU's than spending on the CPU. 

[adnank77]

you have to do a lot of editing to really justify X99. Jay from Jay's Two Cents uses a 4790k, and a 4770k before that. 

 

Gaming at high resolutions will benefit more from spending more of your budget on GPU's than spending on the CPU. 

 

True .. but in order to spend on more than 2 GPUs (considering the scaling), you need the higher PCIe lanes in X99

[Real_PhillBert]

True .. but in order to spend on more than 2 GPUs (considering the scaling), you need the higher PCIe lanes in X99

More than two GPU's scale poorly no matter what platform they are on.

[khandajatt]

Teachically I do more gaming then editing because let's face it for any montage you need atleast 3 to 5 days of some epic game play. So yes I wuld be gaming more than editing. I was actually looking into the rampage IV Be along with 4930k.

[runit3]

My X99 parts will be here friday, system should be done being built late next week. My rationale for selling the Z97 i7-4790k I just built and going with X99 was primarily the x264 performance coupled with CUDA accelration in editing (premier pro CC) as well as batch encoding with Xilisoft. Not that you cant do that with dual x8 SLI setups, but now I can have dual x16 lanes for when I replace my 2 580's in the future. I'm planning to keep this rig for at least 5 years and nothing will touch the 5960X for at least 3, and with OCing 4-5. Which is exactly what I did with my current 980X, it didnt start showing its age until I got my hands on a 4.7ghz i7 Haswell.

I prefer to spend/build once rather than replacing a system a couple years down the road. It's really down to your budget and whether or not you will fully utilize all of the X99 features now, or in the relatively near future, and those features directly correlate with productivity/editing, NOT gaming. For gaming it's a complete wash between the two platforms until game devs make heavily threaded programs. If you never planned on maxing PCIe lanes or running SLI there is no reason that I can think of to run X99 as opposed to Z97 or just waiting a year to see what broadwell has to offer.

[khandajatt]

so should i get rampage IV Be along with 4930k?