Asus ROG Battle IX formula or Rampage V 10th edition

[JohnFPS]

So I am planing a gaming rig and can not pick with motherboard/CPU I should go with. I don't need extra cores for video editing or rendering just a gaming rig I want to have custom water cooling setup and I want to get the best Overclocking I can and I don't know what chipset to go with Z270 or X99. I know people are going to say go with the i7 7700k its stock clock is fater than 6800k. But when it comes to Custom water over clocking and the fact that the Rampage V is the coolest looking MB on the market in my opinion could I get better OCs with X99 or not. If you have any thought or ideas about what I should do please post thanks.  

[NumLock21]

flip coin

[The Sloth]

x99 is much better 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Yea. Edition 10 is definitely a very flashy board. 

But it might be easier to wait for the Maximus IX Extreme for your custom water cooling needs. 

[Sintezza]

For mainly gaming i would go with Kabylake 7700K.

They have a higher overclock potential.

And overall they are the better chips for gaming usually.

[Sintezza]

30 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

x99 is much better 

 

And why would that be better for gaming specificly?

Because i personally think that X99 is unessesary for gaming.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Sintezza said:

 

And why would that be better for gaming specificly?

 

dx 12 and vulkin is coming 

[Sintezza]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

dx 12 and vulkin is coming 

Yeah so?

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Sintezza said:

Yeah so?

more cores will be used, if you can afford x99 its a good idea to go that route. 

[Sintezza]

21 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

more cores will be used,

 

I have not really seen that much in most DX12 and Vulkan benchmarks untill now.

So unless i did miss something?

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Sintezza said:

Based on?

I have not really seen that much in most DX12 and Vulkan benchmarks untill now.

 

.... Microsoft presentations whare they said dx12 will use more cpu power also some basic reading online 

  

[Sintezza]

Well basiclly X99 isnt really better for pure gaming atm.

Unless you go crazy on triple gpu setups.

 

There might be a very few games that might run better on a 6800K.

But in most of the gaming benchmarks arround the board the 7700K will be at the top of the list.

 

I personally think that the time that we really gonne see a benefit in having a cpu with more the 4 core + HT in gaming is still a pretty long way ahead on us.

But in the future maybe.

 

X99 is definitelly not a bad choice what so ever.

But its just unessesary for gaming.

And as far as overclocking is concerned,

The 7700K will also overclock better.

 

I'm personally in the works for an upgrade to X99.

But i exally have the workload that benefits from having more physical cores,I run virtual machines.

But if the only thing i do would be gaming and browsing the web.

Then i would go Kabylake without a single doubt.

 

[NumLock21]

Get the Apex, it lets you OC with liquid helium!