OCUK has Built an X99 system that is cheaper it's i7 Skylake equivalent

Nice to see them putting in a SuperFlower psu in to those barebone kits most places just toss in cheap units.
 
I've never liked the idea that the huge multicore systems were the way to go for 'creative programs'. A number of the ones I use/build systems for depend highly on single core/thread speed in the modeling/viewport process, where I assume skylake would actually pull ahead until the render button was hit.
 
I like how all the benchmark results in the article are multi-threaded ones ;)

Give them some real game benchmarks and not these over-inflated "20 cores will give you a better benchmark score" ones.
 
Was speaking to 8 pack on OCUK and he reckons that all recently made 5820k can easily do 4.2ghz on a basic air cooler.

Not good news for Skylake really.
 
They're benchmarks.

Very true bud but they are GPU only benchmarks, You, Me and Kaap could all bench our Fury X's as we all have different CPU's and we would all get the same score in Valley/Heaven plus/minus 100-200 points as it's GPU bound :)

An example of this GPU bound situation is the Heaven benchmark thread on OCUK -

Score 2757, GPU 980 Ti @1510/2102, CPU 5960X @4.60GHZ

Score 2746, GPU 980 Ti @1543/2100, CPU 4790k @4.60GHZ


That's a tiny tiny difference of 11 points between a £300 CPU and a £1000 CPU ;)
 
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Very true bud but they are GPU only benchmarks, You, Me and Kaap could all bench our Fury X's as we all have different CPU's and we would all get the same score in Valley/Heaven plus/minus 100-200 points as it's GPU bound :)

An example of this GPU bound situation is the Heaven benchmark thread on OCUK -

Score 2757, GPU 980 Ti @1510/2102, CPU 5960X @4.60GHZ

Score 2746, GPU 980 Ti @1543/2100, CPU 4790k @4.60GHZ


That's a tiny tiny difference of 11 points between a £300 CPU and a £1000 CPU ;)

GPU bound once DX12 hits will be a thing of the past.

Never know, DX12 might even make my lady's 8 core Xeon break idle sweats.
 
GPU bound once DX12 hits will be a thing of the past.

Never know, DX12 might even make my lady's 8 core Xeon break idle sweats.

Don't count on it !!!!

Mantle did very little for my 5960X.

This is only me speculating but I think true DX12 games will actually run slower than DX11 games and will require higher spec hardware.
 
Don't count on it !!!!

Mantle did very little for my 5960X.

This is only me speculating but I think true DX12 games will actually run slower than DX11 games and will require higher spec hardware.

I've been saying it for a while now, People keep overhyping DX12, It will be good but everyone keeps expecting too much.
 
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