X99 Build still viable?

[nmacedocunha]

I was going to start buying the pc parts from my build next week, and some friend said are you sure x99 still viable ? or is it still worth it. He said this because the of CPU and plataform. I'm buying is the 5820k which I believe almost two years old and the because of skylake being the new "stuff".

 

Note that me or my friend are not experts so I kinda wanted to know if the money I will be spenting aint wasted. I also know everything changes fast especially in technology 

 

I had already posted something in the forums and they advise me to change the RAM and the PSU.

 

Build is here http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZXbLWZ

 

Thank you for your time !

 

P.S. I plan to work with Adobe packages, 3D programms, basically multimedia content and developing stuff, alot of multitasking.

[Aereldor]

Why wouldn't x99 be valuable? Keep in mind that LGA1150 and LGA1151 are limited to hyperthreaded quad-core processors at best, while you can get hyperthreaded 6 and 8 core CPUs on the LGA 2011-3 platform. It's still unrivaled in that respect, and the new Broadwell-E CPUs are going to be coming to that very platform, so there's always an upgrade path.

[mikat]

X99, yes because the Broadwell-E chips also use X99

Haswell-E no

 

Broadwell-E should be released soon because the server chips (Broadwell-EP) where just released

 

wait for Broadwell-E

[xgn]

5 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Why wouldn't x99 be valuable? Keep in mind that LGA1150 and LGA1151 are limited to hyperthreaded quad-core processors at best, while you can get hyperthreaded 6 and 8 core CPUs on the LGA 2011-3 platform. It's still unrivaled in that respect, and the new Broadwell-E CPUs are going to be coming to that very platform, so there's always an upgrade path.

Did Intel confirm this? i read about it but i take it with a grain of salt.

[DXMember]

2 minutes ago, xgn said:

Did Intel confirm this? i read about it but i take it with a grain of salt.

what?

it's been known since the X99 release that it will house both Haswell-E and Broadwell-E

all Bridges were on X79, all Wells are on X99 and all Lakes will be on whatever platform comes after X99

[xgn]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

what?

it's been known since the X99 release that it will house both Haswell-E and Broadwell-E

So then that is defently the way to go if you were to buy a mobo today.

[DXMember]

Just now, xgn said:

So then that is defently the way to go if you were to buy a mobo today.

if you were interested in $200+ motherboards and enthusiast platform.. sure, otherwise get the cheapest h110 board or h81 board and go with an i3 or i5

[nmacedocunha]

Thank you guys! I just wanted to make sure I wasnt investing on something "bad" .. And since I do not have any computer to work with or to do anything else I just might buy it right away next week and in the future if the money is around an upgrade ! 

[xgn]

2 minutes ago, DXMember said:

if you were interested in $200+ motherboards and enthusiast platform.. sure, otherwise get the cheapest h110 board or h81 board and go with an i3 or i5

Now i realise how expensive hardware is in Norway. Here it starts on 250$ if you go for asrock extreme3. The real enthusiast ones starts at 580$.

[DXMember]

2 minutes ago, xgn said:

Now i realise how expensive hardware is in Norway. Here it starts on 250$ if you go for asrock extreme3. The real enthusiast ones starts at 580$.

what's your problem?

you wanna pick a fight with me?

I said $200+ and both $250 and $580 are in $200+

#meth

[nmacedocunha]

5 minutes ago, DXMember said:

what's your problem?

you wanna pick a fight with me?

I said $200+ and both $250 and $580 are in $200+

#meth

Btw someone suggested me while I was doing my build to switch the intel 750 pcie for the Samsung PRO 950 M.2 SSD, which is the one you have right?

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, nmacedocunha said:

Btw someone suggested me while I was doing my build to switch the intel pcie for the Samsung PRO 950 M.2 SSD, which is the one you have right?

that's the one i do have

but switch intel what?

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oh... opened the pcpart thingy, yeah totally you can get 950Pro for the same or cheaper price with more storage and half the power consumption

performance wise they are equal

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Samsung-950-PRO-256GB-and-512GB-M2-NVMe-PCIe-SSD-Review

[nmacedocunha]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

that's the one i do have

but switch intel what?

ahahah sorry, this one Intel 750 Series 400GB PCI-E Solid State Drive