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#1563578 1-Jun-2016 11:42

Laws of diminishing return. I agree the best bang for buck is the 6600k. Not sure about compatibility with future Intel stuff - apparently the top kalby lake will only take a 200-series mobo. I have no idea what series the current ones are - I am guessing they're all 100.

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#1563582 1-Jun-2016 11:49

current is 150 and 170

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#1563583 1-Jun-2016 11:49

Oh I see, so the Z170 = 170 well how did I miss that

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#1563597 1-Jun-2016 12:21

Yeh so probably be better looking at a 170 motherboard instead of a 150? Is this the southbridge throughput?

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#1563607 1-Jun-2016 12:37

I've heard of north harbour bridge .... No you've lost me there ...

I can tell you how many (pci-e) lanes however ...

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#1563624 1-Jun-2016 13:04

Ahh ok so just checked. The Z170 over the H170/150 is

20 PCI-E lanes instead of 16.

More HISO lanes and support for overclocking. So in short if you buy a K cpu, you are gonna want a Z170 chipset...

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#1563639 1-Jun-2016 13:28

Apparently AS Rock Extreme 4+ is one of the best cheap mobo ...

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#1563644 1-Jun-2016 13:33

I have an asrock motherboard at home at the moment and im not particularly impressed with it, mind you it works (occasionally) and decides it doesn't want to detect drives occasionally....

I will probably look at a Gigabyte or ASUS. The GA-Z170-D3H is about $260 which is what I am possibly gonna go for. I really want to get a price on the GTX1070 as well. The 1080 is very expensive.

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#1563688 1-Jun-2016 14:30

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-broadwell-e-6950x-6900k-6850k-6800k,4587.html

Here is a review of the new Broadwell-E processors.

Skylake Core i7's are included in the performance comparisons.

It is pretty much what would be expected.

The Broadwell-E's are better at software that uses multiple cores. But, they cost a lot more.

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#1563749 1-Jun-2016 16:13

JWR:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-broadwell-e-6950x-6900k-6850k-6800k,4587.html

Here is a review of the new Broadwell-E processors.

Skylake Core i7's are included in the performance comparisons.

It is pretty much what would be expected.

The Broadwell-E's are better at software that uses multiple cores. But, they cost a lot more.

I nearly cried looking at the release price. about 80% higher than what the world predicted at announcement.

I am crawling slowly back towards Z170 .... but still wondering about the cheaper broadwell-e ones like 6850K vs 6700K ... I'm sure the youtube reviews will be flying in soon ... or not ...

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#1563767 1-Jun-2016 17:05

According to the article the first broad well chips were not that flash hot the next lot they just released now are apparently quite good. I am already sinking a couple of grand without even getting a monitor so I'm gonna get a skylake i5 K proc should do me about 3 years at least

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#1563768 1-Jun-2016 17:12

Apparently the 6600K can be OC'd to 4.4 easy, 4.6 should be achievable on a normal system. That's a bit.

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#1566026 5-Jun-2016 13:06

Not a lot of point spending a load of money on expensive watercooling though. If it's not fast enough then buy the i7-6700k. I have gone with the I5 because ..it was cheap and so am I lol.

If you can afford the broad well stuff then go for it.

My monitor is average, so in gaming an i5 is gonna do nicely. It really comes down to what you use it for. Some games don't need a lot of cpu namely the ones I play. If you render video or play games which do use a lot of cpu then def get an I7. Wether u get a skylakes or not depends on how deep your pockets are.

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