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x99 or skylake?

DominicNikon
By DominicNikon
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i say 5820k 

 

skylake doesnt have enthusiast grade stuff out yet.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Gaming: i7 6700k, but if you game at 60fps you will probably not see a difference in performance even compared to the 5820k@stock

Editing: 5820k, if you oc the i7 6700k it might be around a 5820k for editing, but you can also overclock the 5820k of course.

 

Price it out and decide if 20-30% faster rendering times are worth the difference and if you prefer more pcie lanes or the new z170 features.

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For Single GPU 6700K is enough .. For more PCIe lanes and 2 or 3 Graphics Cards, go 5930K .. I don't see any big advantage on 5820K over the 6700K

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If the price is really close where you live, or you're the type of video editor that needs to shave every possible second off of your render times for financial reasons, go with X99.

 

If you need to pay a lot more for X99 and/or you're an amateur/enthusiast video editor who isn't doing this to make money, Z170.

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I actually had the exact same dilemma to face recently. I was deciding to between the i7-6700K or i7-5820K, and in my thread, the 5820K won by a land slide. Take a look. My vote goes to the 5820K

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/453242-i7-6700k-or-i7-5820k/

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