- Aug 10, 2015
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Hello all,
There was a post about building a budget gaming system... I'm not gonna get into specifics but I seem to have a different idea of what components are acceptable than the rest of the people responding to said post. I'm not linking to the post because I don't want people going there and calling me (or those against me) out on our builds, which would fill up the comments even more. I'm not trying to say that I'm right and everybody else is wrong, and I'm not trying to say that I'm wrong either, I'm just looking for information.
Point being, we were suggesting the barebones for a build for OP of the other post (he already has a GPU, so it's not in the parts lists), and my post was called out on for being too low and not good enough for gaming. Here was another user's build and my build. I'm wondering what the major disadvantage of using H110 on a budget system is.
So here's what I'm looking to clear up...
First: I thought that on Skylake, the first (primary) PCIe slot goes straight to the CPU instead of going through the chipset, which would make the H110 chipset acceptable for a low budget system. I got called out for using the H110 chipset (again, not blaming people or pointing fingers). Am I wrong about the first PCIe slot going straight to the CPU?
Second, what does DMI3 mean on the Intel spec sheets for Z170 and H110?
Third, I would like for someone to put together a hierarchy of Skylake chipsets for gaming so that this confusion doesn't happen again. Please include all of them, not just Z170 and H110.
Fourth, I would like to clear something up for myself. I would like some information on the affect of clock speed on gaming vs the affect of thread count on gaming. I thought that clock speed was more important than core count as long as you had at least two cores.
Now for the part you've all been waiting for. I'm sorry for causing so much confusion across the forum because of my apparent low level understanding of the differences between Skylake chipsets.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to help out. I'm open to all forms of constructive criticism.
There was a post about building a budget gaming system... I'm not gonna get into specifics but I seem to have a different idea of what components are acceptable than the rest of the people responding to said post. I'm not linking to the post because I don't want people going there and calling me (or those against me) out on our builds, which would fill up the comments even more. I'm not trying to say that I'm right and everybody else is wrong, and I'm not trying to say that I'm wrong either, I'm just looking for information.
Point being, we were suggesting the barebones for a build for OP of the other post (he already has a GPU, so it's not in the parts lists), and my post was called out on for being too low and not good enough for gaming. Here was another user's build and my build. I'm wondering what the major disadvantage of using H110 on a budget system is.
So here's what I'm looking to clear up...
First: I thought that on Skylake, the first (primary) PCIe slot goes straight to the CPU instead of going through the chipset, which would make the H110 chipset acceptable for a low budget system. I got called out for using the H110 chipset (again, not blaming people or pointing fingers). Am I wrong about the first PCIe slot going straight to the CPU?
Second, what does DMI3 mean on the Intel spec sheets for Z170 and H110?
Third, I would like for someone to put together a hierarchy of Skylake chipsets for gaming so that this confusion doesn't happen again. Please include all of them, not just Z170 and H110.
Fourth, I would like to clear something up for myself. I would like some information on the affect of clock speed on gaming vs the affect of thread count on gaming. I thought that clock speed was more important than core count as long as you had at least two cores.
Now for the part you've all been waiting for. I'm sorry for causing so much confusion across the forum because of my apparent low level understanding of the differences between Skylake chipsets.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to help out. I'm open to all forms of constructive criticism.
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