Hi all,
New in the forums, and I need some advice moving forward. (New participating, not new lurking around
).
So I have a AMD build which is doing fairly well, but I feel it's time I say goodbye to my aged FX CPU and jump on the Intel bandwagon. That said, what should be a simple decision, is not, it seems. My current Rig:
Case: Corsair 780T (modified for my custom wattercooling loop)
PSU: Corsair 1200i with custom Sleeving
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Memory: 16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 2133
GPU's: 3 Way Crossfire R9 390X's
Storage: 2 x Samsung 850 Pro SSD's in RAID 0
Cooling: EK Custom Watercooling loop (plenty enough to keep all of this REALLY cool)
On top of this I game in 1440p (driving a Dell 34' Ultrawide monitor OC'd to 75Hz).
Everything in this machine is Over clocked and stable to the maximum I can to achieve good speeds, temps and results that really matter for day to day use.
Now my problem moving forward seems to be the 3 way Crossfire and how to maximize it... I am planning to get rid of the CPU, MB and Memory and retain everything else. I will be using these in another build.
Now i really should go for Skylake (i7 6700K with a Z170) BUT i'm doing 3 way crossfire.
The question is, should I be better served with a X99 set-up, say with a i7-5930k (not really seing a benefit from the i7-5960k for the price point) as it sports more PCI-E lanes (40) or would i be better served with the Skylake i7-6700k (with it's 36 PCI-E lanes if i'm correct)?
I'd like to take the most advantage of the PCI-E x16 as much as i can, but really not sure if i'm reaping the benefits form the new Skylake vs Haswell-E...
What do you think?
Another option would be to sit put until Skylake-E comes out, anyone knows when that will be and possibly the specs of those E grade CPU's?
Thanks in advance for your comments.
P.S. - I'll be doing mainly gaming on this rig, with some other small productivity work but nothing over the top.
New in the forums, and I need some advice moving forward. (New participating, not new lurking around

So I have a AMD build which is doing fairly well, but I feel it's time I say goodbye to my aged FX CPU and jump on the Intel bandwagon. That said, what should be a simple decision, is not, it seems. My current Rig:
Case: Corsair 780T (modified for my custom wattercooling loop)
PSU: Corsair 1200i with custom Sleeving
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Memory: 16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 2133
GPU's: 3 Way Crossfire R9 390X's
Storage: 2 x Samsung 850 Pro SSD's in RAID 0
Cooling: EK Custom Watercooling loop (plenty enough to keep all of this REALLY cool)
On top of this I game in 1440p (driving a Dell 34' Ultrawide monitor OC'd to 75Hz).
Everything in this machine is Over clocked and stable to the maximum I can to achieve good speeds, temps and results that really matter for day to day use.
Now my problem moving forward seems to be the 3 way Crossfire and how to maximize it... I am planning to get rid of the CPU, MB and Memory and retain everything else. I will be using these in another build.
Now i really should go for Skylake (i7 6700K with a Z170) BUT i'm doing 3 way crossfire.
The question is, should I be better served with a X99 set-up, say with a i7-5930k (not really seing a benefit from the i7-5960k for the price point) as it sports more PCI-E lanes (40) or would i be better served with the Skylake i7-6700k (with it's 36 PCI-E lanes if i'm correct)?
I'd like to take the most advantage of the PCI-E x16 as much as i can, but really not sure if i'm reaping the benefits form the new Skylake vs Haswell-E...
What do you think?
Another option would be to sit put until Skylake-E comes out, anyone knows when that will be and possibly the specs of those E grade CPU's?
Thanks in advance for your comments.
P.S. - I'll be doing mainly gaming on this rig, with some other small productivity work but nothing over the top.
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