Convert to Intel

[Morbidos]

Ok so following up on this thread,

 

I was curious what would a swap cost me?

 

But being an AMD fanboy I know next to nothing about the holy land of Intel soctets and such so I turn to you guys!

 

Given the spec of my current system and my main usage being, high end gaming and video editing/rendering. Can you please recommend me a system (CPU, MB and RAM) that will do that, and last me a good few years in the future?

Price wise, I live in Norway (the land of high mountains and even higher tax) so lets keep price out of the picture for a while.. tho I might add I'm not prepaired to pay 2500 USD for a CPU so be sensible here guys!

[bgibbz]

Wait for zen/kaby. 

[kelvinhall05]

3 minutes ago, Morbidos said:

Ok so following up on this thread,

 

I was curious what would a swap cost me?

 

But being an AMD fanboy I know next to nothing about the holy land of Intel soctets and such so I turn to you guys!

 

Given the spec of my current system and my main usage being, high end gaming and video editing/rendering. Can you please recommend me a system (CPU, MB and RAM) that will do that, and last me a good few years in the future?

Price wise, I live in Norway (the land of high mountains and even higher tax) so lets keep price out of the picture for a while.. tho I might add I'm not prepaired to pay 2500 USD for a CPU so be sensible here guys!

 

kinda hard to recommend something without a budget, please try to give at least a rough estimate for cpu alone

[Taswell]

Well here's prices for a 6700K platform, you will also have to get a new CPU water block. I don't know how High up the Intel tree you want to go.

**CPU** | [Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/tdmxFT/intel-cpu-bx80662i76700k) | $324.89 @ OutletPC 
**Motherboard** | [Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q9Gj4D/asus-motherboard-z170a) | $144.82 @ B&H 
**Memory** | [Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/xhM323/kingston-memory-hx421c14fbk216) | $72.99 @ B&H 
 | *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
 | **Total** | **$542.70**
 | Generated by [PCPartPicker](http://pcpartpicker.com) 2016-09-19 10:09 EDT-0400 |

[don_svetlio]

Anything less than an i7 6700K is a downgrade in your case. Wait for Zen/Kaby Lake

[Paytend01]

Thats a high price point so... something that would last awhile would be a 6700k

[Paytend01]

I agree with @ITheSpazI

[AlisterM]

Intel's 5820K is a great option, its the lowest end of the high end section of i7's meaning you can save in other departments while maintaining great performance with its 6 cores.

[Morbidos]

16 hours ago, ITheSpazI said:

Well here's prices for a 6700K platform, you will also have to get a new CPU water block. I don't know how High up the Intel tree you want to go.

**CPU** | [Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/tdmxFT/intel-cpu-bx80662i76700k) | $324.89 @ OutletPC 
**Motherboard** | [Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q9Gj4D/asus-motherboard-z170a) | $144.82 @ B&H 
**Memory** | [Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/product/xhM323/kingston-memory-hx421c14fbk216) | $72.99 @ B&H 
 | *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
 | **Total** | **$542.70**
 | Generated by [PCPartPicker](http://pcpartpicker.com) 2016-09-19 10:09 EDT-0400 |

Converted to Norwegian prices the total comes to about 670 USD and I don't think I'll save anything by buying from outside of Norway, as shipping tends to skyrocket, and we have our loveley import tax...(yey Norway)

 

But all in all that was not as high as I feared I'd have to go... but I think I'll wait for Zen and see how much of a flop that will turn out to be before I make a switch...