At What Point Would You Upgrade Haswell-E

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I've had my i7-5960X for awhile now and am really starting to get the itch to upgrade with the release of Skylake-X and news of coffee lake; but does it actually make any sense? I could always boost clockspeeds above the modest 4.0GHz I keep this chip tamed at, but the 4.5GHz required to make it "relative" comes at a cost and I don't like exceeding 65c under load or 50c while gaming. My primary focus is entertainment (1440p165Hz/VR), but I do also create media projects for my major with CC and my partner likes to edit pictures from her photo shoots as well. I recently picked up a X99 gen2 board (Strix) after my Deluxe kicked the bucket so I now have USB-C which is great for direct compatibility between my MacBook Pro and its externals. While I don't feel like I am missing any new features, I have filled every USB port and could use more. From what I've seen, there is not a huge gain going to the 7820X and I am concerned about the loss of PCIe lanes, but the 7900X sounds like it suffers from thermal dissipation with the move away from solder that my AIO may not be able to handle. This upgrade would however be the perfect excuse to finally build a custom loop, something I've been meaning to do for awhile now.

If you still have a Haswell-E processor, what would make you upgrade? If you picked up Skylake-E already or even Broadwell-E what was the deciding factor?
 
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Honestly sounds like you'd be better off with the 6700/7700K, why did you choose the 8 core flagship? Not trying to flame you or anything, but it kind of just sounds like you're trying to justify spending money. That's fine if you can, but there's really not much extra performance to be had from upgrading your system. Building a custom loop is more of an enthusiast project than it is anything else, for performance/$ it makes no sense at all. Plus, with the latest generation you have to buy the 7900X to get all 40 PCIe lanes, which really hurts the upgrade value for people on older platforms.
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^True. But it's hard to resist the temptation of that 'itch' though...

OP, if you need someone to tell you, I'd say wait for the 10nm die shrink - not the first one, but one of the later, refined cpus(give 'em time to get some of the kinks out). Or wait for the 2nd or later arch NOT named after a freaking lake to come out. Never go for the 'prototype'. Although, I'm in no position to tell you this coming from a 7820x... I gave in to the itch.
 
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Honestly sounds like you'd be better off with the 6700/7700K, why did you choose the 8 core flagship? Not trying to flame you or anything, but it kind of just sounds like you're trying to justify spending money. That's fine if you can, but there's really not much extra performance to be had from upgrading your system. Building a custom loop is more of an enthusiast project than it is anything else, for performance/$ it makes no sense at all. Plus, with the latest generation you have to buy the 7900X to get all 40 PCIe lanes, which really hurts the upgrade value for people on older platforms.
 
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