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Sanctorum wrote 980Ti is a fine choice. If you're going to go with either of Chang's suggestions, at least grab a decent 1100W unit or 850W unit instead. The 1000W unit is a waste. 850W is enough for 2-way SLI 980Ti with OC. 1000W isn't going to cut it for 3-way SLI 980Ti. The 6700k is going to perform better in gaming than a 5820k, and there's absolutely no reason to go with Haswell any more so that Xeon option is not worth it, you'd be better off getting a Sylake Xeon if you're not OC'ing the CPU.

The 6700K may perform better in gaming than what a 5820K would but for the price the difference between the two is minimal in gaming. £20 more for 50% more cores and threads. I wouldn't even be thinking about Z170 if I was given the choice.

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Those links are just examples for both platforms.. not suggesting any builds.

You're actually looking at closer to £50 extra for X99 since the Z170A Krait is £105, and you'd probably be looking at quad channel RAM for X99. Just because it's a little more expensive, doesn't mean it's worth it. Single core performance of the 6700k is far superior, and overclocking is better with Skylake. For a rig that is solely being used for gaming, a OP stated, a 5820k is entirely unnecessary.

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Dan- wrote

Sanctorum wrote 980Ti is a fine choice. If you're going to go with either of Chang's suggestions, at least grab a decent 1100W unit or 850W unit instead. The 1000W unit is a waste. 850W is enough for 2-way SLI 980Ti with OC. 1000W isn't going to cut it for 3-way SLI 980Ti. The 6700k is going to perform better in gaming than a 5820k, and there's absolutely no reason to go with Haswell any more so that Xeon option is not worth it, you'd be better off getting a Sylake Xeon if you're not OC'ing the CPU.

The 6700K may perform better in gaming than what a 5820K would but for the price the difference between the two is minimal in gaming. £20 more for 50% more cores and threads. I wouldn't even be thinking about Z170 if I was given the choice.

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Those links are just examples for both platforms.. not suggesting any builds.

You're actually looking at closer to £50 extra for X99 since the Z170A Krait is £105, and you'd probably be looking at quad channel RAM for X99. Just because it's a little more expensive, doesn't mean it's worth it. Single core performance of the 6700k is far superior, and overclocking is better with Skylake. For a rig that is solely being used for gaming, a OP stated, a 5820k is entirely unnecessary.

The SLI Plus and Krait Edition (both X99) are basically the same, it doesn't really make sense to get the Krait board unless you wan't it for aesthetics. Even if OP wouldn't necessarily need more cores and threads, £20 for 50% more cores and threads is a no brainer, unless you don't have a brain.

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Sanctorum wrote

Dan- wrote

Sanctorum wrote 980Ti is a fine choice. If you're going to go with either of Chang's suggestions, at least grab a decent 1100W unit or 850W unit instead. The 1000W unit is a waste. 850W is enough for 2-way SLI 980Ti with OC. 1000W isn't going to cut it for 3-way SLI 980Ti. The 6700k is going to perform better in gaming than a 5820k, and there's absolutely no reason to go with Haswell any more so that Xeon option is not worth it, you'd be better off getting a Sylake Xeon if you're not OC'ing the CPU.

The 6700K may perform better in gaming than what a 5820K would but for the price the difference between the two is minimal in gaming. £20 more for 50% more cores and threads. I wouldn't even be thinking about Z170 if I was given the choice.

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Those links are just examples for both platforms.. not suggesting any builds.

You're actually looking at closer to £50 extra for X99 since the Z170A Krait is £105, and you'd probably be looking at quad channel RAM for X99. Just because it's a little more expensive, doesn't mean it's worth it. Single core performance of the 6700k is far superior, and overclocking is better with Skylake. For a rig that is solely being used for gaming, a OP stated, a 5820k is entirely unnecessary.

The SLI Plus and Krait Edition (both X99) are basically the same, it doesn't really make sense to get the Krait board unless you wan't it for aesthetics. Even if OP wouldn't necessarily need more cores and threads, £20 for 50% more cores and threads is a no brainer, unless you don't have a brain.

I have no idea why you're trying to place so much significance on the amount of cores/threads, it's entirely irrelevant. It's not going to be useful for OP at all.

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As you can see through a fair comparison, X99 is at least a bit more than £50 extra, for slower per core performance.

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ChangsITSupport wrote

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Dan- wrote

Sanctorum wrote 980Ti is a fine choice. If you're going to go with either of Chang's suggestions, at least grab a decent 1100W unit or 850W unit instead. The 1000W unit is a waste. 850W is enough for 2-way SLI 980Ti with OC. 1000W isn't going to cut it for 3-way SLI 980Ti. The 6700k is going to perform better in gaming than a 5820k, and there's absolutely no reason to go with Haswell any more so that Xeon option is not worth it, you'd be better off getting a Sylake Xeon if you're not OC'ing the CPU.

The 6700K may perform better in gaming than what a 5820K would but for the price the difference between the two is minimal in gaming. £20 more for 50% more cores and threads. I wouldn't even be thinking about Z170 if I was given the choice.

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Those links are just examples for both platforms.. not suggesting any builds.

You're actually looking at closer to £50 extra for X99 since the Z170A Krait is £105, and you'd probably be looking at quad channel RAM for X99. Just because it's a little more expensive, doesn't mean it's worth it. Single core performance of the 6700k is far superior, and overclocking is better with Skylake. For a rig that is solely being used for gaming, a OP stated, a 5820k is entirely unnecessary.

The SLI Plus and Krait Edition (both X99) are basically the same, it doesn't really make sense to get the Krait board unless you wan't it for aesthetics. Even if OP wouldn't necessarily need more cores and threads, £20 for 50% more cores and threads is a no brainer, unless you don't have a brain.

I have no idea why you're trying to place so much significance on the amount of cores/threads, it's entirely irrelevant. It's not going to be useful for OP at all.

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As you can see through a fair comparison, X99 is at least a bit more than £50 extra, for slower per core performance.

Once again, if you take the most sensible motherboard choices and use the same brand RAM instead of the cheaper Dual Channel against the more expensive Quad Channel, you will see that there isn't a difference that you can't justify buying. Spending ~£20 extra for 50% more cores/threads and almost double the L1 cache makes sense.

No. I'm comparing the two motherboard that are comparable for both sockets since their are Krait options for both. £190 is a very reasonable price for an X99 motherboard, and the Z170A Krait is only £105 or so. If you're going X99, you're more likely to go quad channel, I would be, it's only an extra £10, even if you go with a 2 stick kit instead, it's still more than £50 extra for X99, which is entirely irrelevant for OP anyway since he'll get no use from it. "£20 more for 50% extra cores lul" is a completely irrelevant argument. The 8320E is almost half the cost of a locked i5. The 8320E has 100% more cores than the i5, you going to recommend the 8320 in a gaming rig instead of an i5? Nup.