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[adamrutter3]

Hallo guys!

 

My friend asked me for my opinion. He told me he would like to upgrade his AMD PC (the same as mine, see down there) with AMD parts, or buy some 5xxxK/X and X99, DDR4 and all that good stuff. 

 

What should he do?

[Queek]

Hallo guys!

 

My friend asked me for my opinion. He told me he would like to upgrade his AMD PC (the same as mine, see down there) with AMD parts, or buy some 5xxxK/X and X99, DDR4 and all that good stuff. 

 

What should he do?

 

We need a budget and probable usage before we can help you.  

Is he a content creator or is he just going to be playing games?

[WereCat]

Why bother.. what is with this x99 madness. Everyone is building X99 builds suddenly for no reason. Just tell him to get better GPU and he will be fine as long as he is only going to play games. If he plans on rendering few videos per week he doesent need any fancy CPU. i5 4690k (max i7 4790k) will be more than enough.

[adamrutter3]

We need a budget and probable usage before we can help you.  

Is he a content creator or is he just going to be playing games?

Budget is 2500 euro's (2700 dollars I guess). Gaming in 1080p or 1440p.

[BaSkA]

Budget is 2500 euro's (2700 dollars I guess). Gaming in 1080p or 1440p.

 

Just go for the regular "old" stuff:

 

i5-4690k, GTX 780Ti, ASUS Z97-A, NH-D14 or H100i, 8/16GB of 1600MHz RAM, 250GB of SSD, any case you like, any 750w PSU you like, any monitor you like.

 

If there's money left, buy better stuff such as an i7-4790k, better RAM, more SSD space, better monitor, etc.

The new x99 CPUs are not even that good for gaming anyway. Of course they are not bad (lmao), but paying that much more for pretty much no difference in-game (or anything other than really heavy data processing) is not worth it.

 

Z97 is the way to go until Broadwell. You should also note that you might want to wait for the new nVidia generation of GPUs, probably coming out this year.

 

Good luck.

[adamrutter3]

Just go for the regular "old" stuff:

 

i5-4690k, GTX 780Ti, ASUS Z97-A, NH-D14 or H100i, 8/16GB of 1600MHz RAM, 250GB of SSD, any case you like, any 750w PSU you like, any monitor you like.

 

If there's money left, buy better stuff such as an i7-4790k, better RAM, more SSD space, better monitor, etc.

The new x99 CPUs are not even that good for gaming anyway. Of course they are not bad (lmao), but paying that much more for pretty much no difference in-game (or anything other than really heavy data processing) is not worth it.

 

Z97 is the way to go until Broadwell. You should also note that you might want to wait for the new nVidia generation of GPUs, probably coming out this year.

 

Good luck.

Yeah, he thought of Maximus VII Hero, 4790K, 8/16gb RAM and R9 290X from MSI or Lightning.

[BaSkA]

Yeah, he thought of Maximus VII Hero, 4790K, 8/16gb RAM and R9 290X from MSI or Lightning.

 

Way better than X99. Spend the rest of the money with something that's really worth it!

[adamrutter3]

Way better than X99. Spend the rest of the money with something that's really worth it!

On Z97 mobo I can put Broadwell CPU later on It's good. X99 is just piece of crap, that what I told my friend. 

[BaSkA]

On Z97 mobo I can put Broadwell CPU later on It's good. X99 is just piece of crap, that what I told my friend. 

 

Piece of crap. That's somewhat a lie, haha! Anyway, yeah, you'll probably be able to use Broadwell on the z97 mobo but I wouldn't do it.

Selling the z97 mobo+cpu+memory and get the next chipset mobo+cpu+memory would probably be better!