Hi Guys and Girls!
Basically I'm buying a gaming only pc.
I will only use more than 4 cores as games start to use more cores.
No other requirement for more than 4 cores ever! But I want a future proof CPU and I want to have the choice to play all games released. Even if it's only a few.
Therefore this is dilemma...
4 core 8 thread 6700k OC
6 core 12 thread 5820k OC
Wait for broadwell-e
Wait for skylake-e
I would strongly prefer to have more than 4 cores so I am covered if games start using more than more than 4.
Would the 6700k with 4 core 8 threads solve that problem anyway?
If the 5820k were newer I would get that hands down but its a year and a half old and it just feels wrong to spend 1.5k on a pc with a year and a half old chip and a mother board coming the end of its life cycle too. broadwell-e will drop into the x99 but beyond that it's looking like a new motherboard for skylake-e. (I have spoken to 3 sales people that think skylake-e will drop into the x99 but the message boards say Skylake has no FIVR on chip so a new motherboard is needed. Plus it wouldn't make sense anyway. Why would a new hedt chip go into a 2.5 year old motherboard.)
I really don't want to wait for skylake e as that is 2017. Or late 2016.
So my options are x99 or skylake.
I guess my questions are therefore simply
Do you think there is any chance of skylake-e dropping into the x99?(pc specialist said it's all but confirmed but they are under a non disclosure agreement with Intel and can't talk about it. Others say no chance)
Would skylake 4 core 8 threads cover any games starting to use 4 cores + anyway?
Or should wait for broadwell-e in q1 of 2016.
If I had a current pc it would be a no brainer to wait for skylake-e. But I don't.
Thoughts welcome and thank you for your time.
Paul.
Basically I'm buying a gaming only pc.
I will only use more than 4 cores as games start to use more cores.
No other requirement for more than 4 cores ever! But I want a future proof CPU and I want to have the choice to play all games released. Even if it's only a few.
Therefore this is dilemma...
4 core 8 thread 6700k OC
6 core 12 thread 5820k OC
Wait for broadwell-e
Wait for skylake-e
I would strongly prefer to have more than 4 cores so I am covered if games start using more than more than 4.
Would the 6700k with 4 core 8 threads solve that problem anyway?
If the 5820k were newer I would get that hands down but its a year and a half old and it just feels wrong to spend 1.5k on a pc with a year and a half old chip and a mother board coming the end of its life cycle too. broadwell-e will drop into the x99 but beyond that it's looking like a new motherboard for skylake-e. (I have spoken to 3 sales people that think skylake-e will drop into the x99 but the message boards say Skylake has no FIVR on chip so a new motherboard is needed. Plus it wouldn't make sense anyway. Why would a new hedt chip go into a 2.5 year old motherboard.)
I really don't want to wait for skylake e as that is 2017. Or late 2016.
So my options are x99 or skylake.
I guess my questions are therefore simply
Do you think there is any chance of skylake-e dropping into the x99?(pc specialist said it's all but confirmed but they are under a non disclosure agreement with Intel and can't talk about it. Others say no chance)
Would skylake 4 core 8 threads cover any games starting to use 4 cores + anyway?
Or should wait for broadwell-e in q1 of 2016.
If I had a current pc it would be a no brainer to wait for skylake-e. But I don't.
Thoughts welcome and thank you for your time.
Paul.
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