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Read more.It's Intel or Intel these days, so which of the two enthusiast platforms do you favour?
I already upgraded from Z97 to X99, so my answer is X99.
I was hoping you lot were going to tell us
Neither it's all about the z68!
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Re: QOTW: Z170 or X99 - which would you choose for a high-end rig?
No, it's all about the X58! ;-p
Woohoo!
Last edited by idris; 07-08-2015 at 05:34 PM.
outwar6010 (07-08-2015)
I'm trying to bold... (clarifying this just ruins the *joke*)
Originally Posted by idris
Third time lucky?
No, it's all about the **X58!** ;-p
lol how did you bold it in the end?
Main rigs would be x99 (or it's replacement if it's not too far off). There's no point me upgrading to a platform that is limited to just 4 cores when I primarily use my pc for 3D work.
X99...no brainer.
I'd Go x99. Skylake doesn't offer enough of a performance boost and x99 has all those delicious pci-e lanes.
For a full-ATX sized build I'd go for X99 - as a 5820K and x99 motherboard are not that much more than Z170 and 6700K, and not only performs on a par or better now, but allows more room for upgrades down the line, in terms of both PCI-E expansion and sheer number of CPU cores - up to 8 multi-unlocked cores with I7 5960x, or 18 locked cores with Xeon 2699v3 - not to mention the potential of Broadwell-E, so there will be the potential opportunity to significantly upgrade your system with a cheap second-hand CPU a few years down the line, like many on X58 were able to upgrade to a 6-core Gulftown.
With Z170 you are limited to 4 cores, and will be lucky to see 6 with Kaby Lake or Cannonlake if they are even chipset compatible, so there is nowhere near the potential scalability.
Z170 makes more sense for smaller form-factors though where you are limited to single-GPU, dual-channel memory and single m.2/u.2 drive by form-factor constraints.
X99 for the extra lanes alone. The fact that you're not limited to 4 cores either puts it beyond question
X99. The new platform doesnt offer too much of an upgrade over Z97.
Neither. Holding out for Skylake-E, which is no hardship given the lack of significant performance gains since I built an SB-E rig in the spring of 2012.
X99, no contest unless you have a tight budget or only game then I would go skylake. But if you use it for anything other than gaming X99 all the way.
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