Davva2004
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Hi all,
Speccing up a client build and I've hit a conundrum - do I go for Z170 i7-6700K or X99 i7-5930K?
He wants two Fury X cards and will be using the rig primarily for gaming on the Acer 34" curved Freesync monitor. We will also be fitting an M.2 SSD.
Speeds wise, both CPUs will be at 4.5ghz and cooled by the Corsair H110i GT.
Keeping everything else the same and only changing the CPU and motherboard (both MSI Krait motherboards, it's a black and white theme build) the Z170 build is £200 cheaper than the X99 build. That's a significant saving, but it halves the PCIE lanes available.
With a Z170 6700K build, each GPU would get PCIE 3.0 x8 and 4 lanes go to the M.2 SSD. With X99 5930K, both GPUs get x16 lanes. Seeing as the Fury cards "talk" to each other over PCIE, I'm keen to ensure they have all the bandwidth they could ever need.
My client trusts my judgement and I have talked through the options with him, he's happy to pay the extra if I consider it worth it. I just want to sanity check my decision as I'd hate to waste his money on something that will have zero performance impact.
Speccing up a client build and I've hit a conundrum - do I go for Z170 i7-6700K or X99 i7-5930K?
He wants two Fury X cards and will be using the rig primarily for gaming on the Acer 34" curved Freesync monitor. We will also be fitting an M.2 SSD.
Speeds wise, both CPUs will be at 4.5ghz and cooled by the Corsair H110i GT.
Keeping everything else the same and only changing the CPU and motherboard (both MSI Krait motherboards, it's a black and white theme build) the Z170 build is £200 cheaper than the X99 build. That's a significant saving, but it halves the PCIE lanes available.
With a Z170 6700K build, each GPU would get PCIE 3.0 x8 and 4 lanes go to the M.2 SSD. With X99 5930K, both GPUs get x16 lanes. Seeing as the Fury cards "talk" to each other over PCIE, I'm keen to ensure they have all the bandwidth they could ever need.
My client trusts my judgement and I have talked through the options with him, he's happy to pay the extra if I consider it worth it. I just want to sanity check my decision as I'd hate to waste his money on something that will have zero performance impact.