Upgrading from x58 to ???

[Ov3erclock3R]

Hi people, I want to upgrade from my current I7 950 and Gtx 570 but not sure whether to go x99 or go x299.

I want a 960 pro and a 1080 TI and i want to have enough pcie lanes so they can both run without limitations.

Only use it for playing Arma 3 and odd few other games, still don't mind paying the premium for what i want (if its wort it).

Any advice will be greatly appreciated

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Neither. Wait until August for Z370 and a 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPU. You'll have enough PCI-E lanes since your M.2 will eat from the chipset and your GPU from the CPU. The HEDT really are prosumer platforms and since you're just playing a few odd games, mainstream is better for that in all respects.

 

[AlienALX]

If you are dead set determined to go with Intel do not do it now as advised by F34R. It's really not a good time to go Intel, unless you are going with 10+ cores and don't mind paying for the privilege.

I would strongly consider a Ryzen 1600 as a stop gap (because it's bloody fast and a massive upgrade from now !) with a B350 Strix board. This will cost you £320 or so and the RAM you buy can be moved on if and when Intel settle down.

If you don't mind changing teams you can obviously go with something like the Ryzen 1700 on a better board.

The problem is Intel's prices are still a joke. We're talking double the price of a 1600 for their Kaby 6 core, triple the price for their 8 core and so on. Intel promise high clocks, but down here in reality they are actually around 4.5ghz which is only 4-500mhz more than AMD and they are charging double for it.

Yeah, um, no. But hey, it's your money fella do as you wish with it

 

[Ov3erclock3R]

Neither. Wait until August for Z370 and a 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPU. You'll have enough PCI-E lanes since your M.2 will eat from the chipset and your GPU from the CPU. The HEDT really are prosumer platforms and since you're just playing a few odd games, mainstream is better for that in all respects.

Cheers thanks, I'm in no rush at the minuet as i'm just getting to grips with all the latest specs again but i think i will wait a few weeks, thanks.

 

[AlienALX]

Cheers thanks, I'm in no rush at the minuet as i'm just getting to grips with all the latest specs again but i think i will wait a few weeks, thanks.

If you get your hands on the latest issue of Custom PC (by fair means or foul) there is a CPU wars group test between most of the Ryzen range and some of the Intel range in the same price bracket.

Overall winner by a country mile - Ryzen 1600. We're talking not even close. The Intel 7700k is included in the tests, too, but the 1600 absolutely walked it.

 

[Ov3erclock3R]

If you are dead set determined to go with Intel do not do it now as advised by F34R. It's really not a good time to go Intel, unless you are going with 10+ cores and don't mind paying for the privilege.

I would strongly consider a Ryzen 1600 as a stop gap (because it's bloody fast and a massive upgrade from now !) with a B350 Strix board. This will cost you £320 or so and the RAM you buy can be moved on if and when Intel settle down.

If you don't mind changing teams you can obviously go with something like the Ryzen 1700 on a better board.

The problem is Intel's prices are still a joke. We're talking double the price of a 1600 for their Kaby 6 core, triple the price for their 8 core and so on. Intel promise high clocks, but down here in reality they are actually around 4.5ghz which is only 4-500mhz more than AMD and they are charging double for it.

Yeah, um, no. But hey, it's your money fella do as you wish with it

I do want to stay with Intel as its just my preference, its a bit mind boggling coming back in to it all with all these cpu's from both sides haha ..Cheers for your input

 

[Dawelio]

I'd personally go with an Ryzen 1700, IF I could. But I can't, since there's no compatible low profile CPU cooler for AM4 unfortunately. IF there was, that would fit inside the Dan Case A4 SFX, then I'd switch to Ryzen in a heart beat.

This is the ONLY reason I'm still on Intel, otherwise I'd leave them as they just completely f*ck you over with their insane prices and complete ignorance towards their customers really.

And I'd like to support AMD, just because they're awesome

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Well if he want's to play arma3 then he really needs the better ipc of the intel CPUs and the highest speed memory he can. GPU doesn't matter that much unless he wants to render it at 200% (which my r9 290 handles fine).