I would like your input on Project Dark Storm - Mark III

[WelshDdraig]

Hey Everyone.

 

So, almost 2 years ago, I built my first PC from scratch - with fairly decent hardware for the time,

1. Intel Core i5 4690k
2. 16GB DDR3
3. GTX 970

Well, almost 2 years later, and a few modifications later:

1. New Hard Drives
2. New SSD
3. New GPU - GTX 1070

Project Dark Storm is due for an upgrade once again.

 

Gaming, It does everything I need - for the time being, and maybe for maybe one more generation, But I feel that I need to upgrade based on other aspects I am using the system for, such as;

1. Game Development - unity, unreal engine - what ever else my university course decides to teach us...
2. Video editing
3. Virtualisation
4. Servers

My i5 just isn't cutting it anymore - and my flat mate said he would by my CPU, Motherboard, Ram and Cooler to upgrade his FX-6100 system.

Trouble is, I'm not sure what route to go.

 

Do I go on the mainstream platform and go with the i7 6700k, or do I go to the enthusiast platform of x99 and get the i7 6800k?

I do want the extra cores for virtualisation and server use, but is it worth it? - I'd be able to afford the jump, but not too sure if the performance gap is worth the jump.

 

And a second question. My current build - Project Dark Storm, Mark II, It is currently a no frills, no lights, blacked out system (with some slight blue accents). I went this route as I wasn't a huge fan of the red and black colour scheme.

But now, I'm considering renaming and re-theming the build, the name I have in mind is "Project Lucifer" or "Project Poseidon", colour schemes Red and Blue respectively.

 

So, to summarise:

1. Which platform, z170 or x99
2. What theme do I go with

 

Thanks for reading - and I would appreciate the feedback/advice.

[RadiatingLight]

RGB for the colors if you want. then you can have the best of both Themes 16.8 Million Themes

 

Have you overclocked the i5? That can give you a significant boost in performance.

 

It really depends if your workload can benefit from all those cores. if your workload will use all cores available, then 6 cores will give you 33% more performance than 4 cores***

 

Just calculate the performance delta between 6700K and 6800K,  and calculate how much price difference there is between them, and decide if the price increase is justified.

 

*** Not counting the difference in clockspeed between 6700K and 6800K

 

 

[BenoitWW]

1 hour ago, RadiatingLight said:

RGB for the colors if you want. then you can have the best of both Themes 16.8 Million Themes

 

Have you overclocked the i5? That can give you a significant boost in performance.

 

It really depends if your workload can benefit from all those cores. if your workload will use all cores available, then 6 cores will give you 33% more performance than 4 cores***

 

Just calculate the performance delta between 6700K and 6800K,  and calculate how much price difference there is between them, and decide if the price increase is justified.

 

*** Not counting the difference in clockspeed between 6700K and 6800K

 

 

the difference is 4 cores hyper threaded vs 6 cores hyper threaded

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6800K/3502vs3607

as you can see, the only performance increase is for multi core tasks, such as rendering