Upgrading this Year, CPU Choice

[Reject]

Im gonna upgrade my system this year.

I manly use my PC for gaming and maybe some streaming.

What should I do?

-Buy a Skylake i7 6700K

-Buy a Broadwell-E 6 Core equivalent to 5820K (will it be more than 500$?)

-Buy Kaby Lake equivalent to 6700k

 

Is 6 Core more future prove with DX12 and Vulkan?

Im also waiting for the Pascal GPUs and maybe will run them in SLI in the long run.

 

Will i regret going X99 over z170 or (z270?)

 

Thank you guys so much for the advice!

 

[Guest]

Kaby lake from my knowledge will be extremely late this year

Broadwell-E is the safest bet

6700k is okay, you'll definitely get more performance out of broardwell-e

Skylake and Broadwell-E are both future proof. Kaby Lake is very iffy since Intel hasn't been focusing on IPS improvements rather power improvement. 

[stealth80]

I would go X99 without a doubt, DX12 will want cores

 

also I'm pretty sure kaby lake is 2017

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

I would go X99 without a doubt, DX12 will want cores

 

also I'm pretty sure kaby lake is 2017

Its Q4 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake

I thought so too but I looked it up to be sure.

http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-kaby-lake-haswell-refresh-platform-detailed-launching-2h-2016-256-mb-edram-hseries-91w-kseries-unveiled/

Waiting for Cannon Lake w/ 10nm will be the best time to upgrade.

[Supercian411]

Just now, stealth80 said:

I would go X99 without a doubt, DX12 will want cores

 

also I'm pretty sure kaby lake is 2017

its late 2016

[thebrockelley]

I could swear I saw some new Cry-engine stuffs from Star Citizen content creators with some sort of proof that DX12 won't be the master of 6 cores like everyone seems to think. It'll certainly better utilize those cores, and yes performance of the 5820K is noted..

 

what's leaning me towards z170 is the motherboards coming with usb 3.1, usb type c, proper m.2 support at 32Gbp/s instead of 10 which in real world testing drops the read/write speeds to 700 mb/s as shown in the NCIX review of the Samsung 950 pro.. also, it's the new shiny. 

[kevin34ct]

Waiting on "Zen" for AMD.

[LukaH]

wait to see what amd will have to offer or intel both CPUs will launch at about the same time.