Posted July 8, 2016 Hello everyone. So basically am looking forward building a new high-end PC. It will be running two GTX 1080 (probably STRIX). On the new ROG STRIX motherboard. When talking about the CPU tho I need some help. The only noticeable difference between these two CPU are the PCIe Lanes (28 vs 40). Am going to be running two cards in SLI, one sound card and m.2 drive so I don't know which CPU to pick. I am looking for opinions and help. Thank you Greetings from Bosnia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 Not going need the extra PCIe lanes of the i7 6850K with that setup. Opt for the cheaper i7 6800K, no need to spend extra. 'Fanboyism is stupid' - someone on this forum. Be nice to each other boys and girls. And don't cheap out on a power supply. Spoiler CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K - 4.5 GHz | Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO | RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 | SSD: Samsung 850 EVO - 500GB | GPU: MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6GB | PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G2 | Case: NZXT Phantom 530 | Cooling: CRYORIG R1 Ultimate | Monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Peripherals: Corsair Vengeance K70 and Razer DeathAdder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 Yup, I'd go for the 6800K. Would run the GTX1080s at 8x though, not that it matters since they won't even bottleneck at 8x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 I'm going to be running a 950 pro m.2 pcie ssd and 2x gtx 1080 on a 6700k perfectly fine, so your 6800k will be more than enough mate. x8 and x16 makes no difference in fluidness/fps. There are a few videos on youtube about it already. Maybe if you are GPUs are really old it might, but that is not the case here. 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 Basicly the 6800K will be sufficient. But ofc having the extra lanes of the 6850K would not hurt if you ever have any planes to expend more on pci-e storage. If not, then the 6800K would be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 the 6850k is becoming more and more useless after nvidia basically discontinued 3 and 4 way SLI. would not buy it even if you're running 3 NVMe drives Dutch Talk Thread Unofficial LMG Social Media Accounts Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 2 hours ago, iiNNeX said: I'm going to be running a 950 pro m.2 pcie ssd and 2x gtx 1080 on a 6700k perfectly fine Except when both your GPUs and SSD are using all the bandwidth, either your second GPU is gonna suffer at 4x or your SSD not running at 1500MB/s speeds Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 29 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said: Except when both your GPUs and SSD are using all the bandwidth, either your second GPU is gonna suffer at 4x or your SSD not running at 1500MB/s speeds The SSD doesn't need to run at 1500mb/s while both GPUs are running anyway so that's okay. No need to waste more money on a CPU which is slower than mine just for the extra pci-e lanes. 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 1 minute ago, iiNNeX said: The SSD doesn't need to run at 1500mb/s while both GPUs are running anyway so that's okay. No need to waste more money on a CPU which is slower than mine just for the extra pci-e lanes. Just saying...I doubt you would be playing a triple A while having another Nvme drive and doing transfers over a 10Gbit network Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said: Just saying...I doubt you would be playing a triple A while having another Nvme drive and doing transfers over a 10Gbit network No I wasn't... or maybe... maybe I will in the future.. maybe I will conquer America after defeating Trump in a wrestling match.. or maybe I talk a lot of Sh** 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 1 minute ago, iiNNeX said: No I wasn't... or maybe... maybe I will in the future.. maybe I will conquer America after defeating Trump in a wrestling match.. or maybe I talk a lot of Sh** Hold a second, just re-read your post before... 4 minutes ago, iiNNeX said: a CPU which is slower than mine Ermmm...that's not exactly true, it's faster single core wise as the 6700k has better IPC but a 5820k/6800k will destroy the 6700k with all 6c/12t utilised Plus also with most 5820k, you can quite easily dial in a 4.2Ghz OC without a too beefy of a cooler either (a 5820k runs cooler than a 3570k...just keep that in mind...) Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said: Hold a second, just re-read your post before... Ermmm...that's not exactly true, it's faster single core wise as the 6700k has better IPC but a 5820k/6800k will destroy the 6700k with all 6c/12t utilised Plus also with most 5820k, you can quite easily dial in a 4.2Ghz OC without a too beefy of a cooler either (a 5820k runs cooler than a 3570k...just keep that in mind...) No game does or will use all the cores and threads on the 5820k in the near future, and 4.2ghz is pretty weak considering my 6700k runs at 4.8 on 1.35v and that was with the EK Predator 360 I had, so on my custom loop and once I delid it I expect perhaps 4.9-5 with 1.4v? We'll see though, either way 4.8 annihilates most processors in games and that is what I built the system for. Now if the OP wants to use it for anything other than games then yes of course the X99 platform will be faster 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 1 minute ago, iiNNeX said: No game does or will use all the cores and threads on the 5820k in the near future, and 4.2ghz is pretty weak considering my 6700k runs at 4.8 on 1.35v and that was with the EK Predator 360 I had, so on my custom loop and once I delid it I expect perhaps 4.9-5 with 1.4v? We'll see though, either way 4.8 annihilates most processors in games and that is what I built the system for. Now if the OP wants to use it for anything other than games then yes of course the X99 platform will be faster my 5820k gets to 4.5Ghz 1.31v without sweating... Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said: my 5820k gets to 4.5Ghz 1.31v without sweating... Sounds like you have a good chip. I saw a test on youtube between skylake and current X99 lineup all at 4.5ghz and the 6700k was ahead in terms of FPS (strictly gaming). 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 46 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said: Except when both your GPUs and SSD are using all the bandwidth, either your second GPU is gonna suffer at 4x or your SSD not running at 1500MB/s speeds 28 lanes 2 GPUs at 8x that's 16 lanes 12 lanes left 3 SSDs at 4x used all your lanes with no slowdowns Dutch Talk Thread Unofficial LMG Social Media Accounts Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 3 minutes ago, mikat said: 28 lanes 2 GPUs at 8x that's 16 lanes 12 lanes left 3 SSDs at 4x used all your lanes with no slowdowns Exactly, plus I am pretty sure the 950 Pro should use the chipset pcie lanes not the CPUs ? 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 41 minutes ago, mikat said: 28 lanes 2 GPUs at 8x that's 16 lanes 12 lanes left 3 SSDs at 4x used all your lanes with no slowdowns 6700k, not 5820k/6800k 38 minutes ago, iiNNeX said: Exactly, plus I am pretty sure the 950 Pro should use the chipset pcie lanes not the CPUs ? CPU lanes Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said: 6700k, not 5820k/6800k CPU lanes ow i thought you were talking about x99 Dutch Talk Thread Unofficial LMG Social Media Accounts Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, mikat said: ow i thought you were talking about x99 Nope Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here... What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 Author Thank you all! Helped me a lot. I'll be going with 6800K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 8, 2016 37 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said: 6700k, not 5820k/6800k CPU lanes The Core i7-6700K, and all the other Skylake CPUs, offers 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes. The chipset offers additional PCIe lanes separately from that. For the Z170 chipset, that's 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes, a huge boost over Z97 which had just 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes. Luke was just saying 20 lanes, which is not really correct; there is a kernel of truth to it though, because while the chipset offers all those lanes, it's still only connected to the CPU by a DMI 3.0 link that's equivalent to 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 (in addition to the 16 lanes directly from the CPU). Still, you can hook up lots of PCIe 3.0 SSDs to the chipset just fine without affecting lanes for the GPU(s). Just don't expect RAID0 to give you like 10GB/s combined bandwidth. As for the Core i7-5820K, it offers the well-known 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes directly from the CPU. But again, the chipset offers additional PCIe lanes. In this case, X99 is far inferior to Z170, because it only offers 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes (just like Z97). So the 6700k will be completely fine with 2 cards and the pci-e ssd running at full tilt Damn you for making me research this when I wanted to make tea instead 7800x3d - RTX 4090 FE - 64GB-6000C30 - 2x2TB 990 Pro - 4K 144HZ PCPP: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mdRcqR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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