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Hi all I decided while I had the money available I was going to do a complete system overhaul and make one that would hopefully last me years open to any suggestions.

I've made up the system here http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TkRhnQ

Only thing i'm keeping from my old system is the M.2 SSD and my GTX 970 [That will be upgraded when Pascal Launches]

I'm hoping this system will be able last me 3-5 Years.

My question is should I wait for Broadwell-E or will it not effect my overall system much?
 
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I see nothing wrong with it. Though I do not know the UK market for deals to suggest other parts. I don't think the performance increase will match the price in gaming. If you need the cores for CPU bound applications, video editing, rendering and the like it will save a lot of time. And time is money.
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Short of a 10 core 20 thread chip and maybe some new motherboards with updated features coming out at the same time, I don't think broadwell-E is going to offer much more. I wonder if intel will jump to skylake-E quickly like they did with the mainstream line. It does not make sense to me to have the enthusiast platform a generation behind...

Though maybe if that m.2 is 4 lane pci express 3.0 consider a 950 pro?
 
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So what you saying is that I likely won't notice much of a difference in quality?

That M.2 SSD is a SATA one not a PCI one.



I currently have a 4790K, 16GB DDR3 RAM, MSI Z97M Gaming, GTX 970. 550W PSU
 
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your current configuration seems good enough. Just upgrade to Pascal once it releases. Thats what I would do.
 
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I want to start doing video editing as well as Gaming. So I want to upgrade entire system while I have the money. I plan on getting a PCI SSD soon as well and a Asus PG279Q to go along with this new build.

Planning on likely getting the Titan Pascal. This is not going be a basic system it's a system i'm building for about 3-4 Years.
Least I would be surprised if a 8 core processor doesn't last that long I know I might need to upgrade the Graphics Card maybe in that time.

I would be gaming at 1440p
 
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Saw the 850 m.2 in the buy list. If you have the 850 evo m.2 already and moving it to the x99, then you won't notice much difference from an upgrade to a 950 pro according to reviews. For a new purchase there is some nice throughput on the 950 pro raid-like in a single stick but not as noticeable increase over a sata ssd as the sata ssd was over hdd. That board will do m.2 sata or m.2 3.0x4 on the same slot, auto sensing or bios set I guess. M.2 seems limited to 500GB and the pci express slot intel ssd up to 1.2 TB will stop SLI and then there are u.2 drives and m.2 to u.2 adapters for the cable to a 2.5 inch drive.

Gaming wise you would be about the same level unless you plan to use multiple graphics cards 3 or 4 way SLI and need the 40 lanes from the x99 platform cpu, but this matx build will hold two? Two cards in x8 (z97 SLI boards) is not that far behind two cards in x16

Sounds like you will be using the extra cores for editing though. The top broadwell-E is expected to have 10, judging from 5775c mainstream vs 4790k then broadwell-E won't overclock like haswell-E.
 
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So I should just get the setup I linked and I will be set?

The 5960X is less about the PCI Lanes more about the cores.

I'm not sure if I will go SLI expect I will just buy the Pascal Titan.
 
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I see nothing wrong with it. Though I do not know the UK market for deals to suggest other parts. I don't think the performance increase will match the price in gaming. If you need the cores for CPU bound applications, video editing, rendering and the like it will save a lot of time. And time is money.
 
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