Hi all,
I have been waiting for 2016 to upgrade my pc, mainly in anticipation of Oculus/Vive, but also because my current pc was built in 2010! I have also recently purchased a EVGA 980ti FTW in sales, and so mainly want to upgrade the CPU and motherboard to match this. I would normally have waited until later this year but I feel it would be a waste having the 980ti with my current setup and monitor for the next 6 months. My monitor is also 1080p and so again I'm not making the most of the 980ti as it stands.
Current Setup:
(1) upgrade now to X99, maybe an OC'd i7 5820k, to get immediate benefits or wait until Haswell-E to see what happens to prices and whether Haswell-E is a big enough upgrade over Broadwell-E... Or go with Skylake i7 6700k now
(2) stick with CPU/MB for now and upgrade monitor to somthing like Asus PG278Q ROG Swift to better utilise 980ti. Decide on CPU upgrade later this year / next year depending on how much I can save again
(3) do cheaper upgrade to i5 now and wait for new MB socket type next year (hopefully) for Skylake-E, maybe stretch budget to get new monitor also
(4) Go all out and buy new monitor and CPU/MB / anything else that needs upgrading
My current thoughts are:
(1) if moving to X99, it is likely that no further chips will come out after Haswell-E and so I am stuck with this setup for 5 years (unless I upgrade again earlier), however a 6-core 4-4.4 GHz CPU probably should suffice for that period? It probably isn't likely that Haswell-E is going to be that much better that Broadwell-E within my price range, also Skylake-E chips will use a different socket to i7 6700k, so there is no benefit of going Skylake now with a view to waiting for Skylake-E... so I'm leaning towards X99 Haswell-E if upgrading CPU/MB, I could also sell my RAM and get DDR4 equivalent.
(2) I am definitely under-utilising 980ti with current monitor so am due an upgrade on this at some point, a 1440p 27" 90Hz+ would be great
, especially since it would be used for everything I do, unlike VR. However if I am getting VR anyway later this year the i7 950 might not be quite enough for that and so I may need still budget to upgrade CPU/MB for then, and so am therefore better off buying the CPU/MB now and saving for the monitor to buy later this year. G-sync / 90Hz+ monitors are becoming a bit more common and so there might be sense in waiting to see what comes by summer.
(3) a cheaper CPU/MB update might cover me for VR and allow my budget to strech for a nice monitor now also (I could go up to £850 if needed). I could also then wait to see next year what Skylake-E is like if it comes out and decide to do an incremental CPU/MB upgrade then. Downside is that I won't get the benefits of the hyperthreading / 6-cores now, which I probably would make use of to some extent with editing and development.
(4) Would prefer to spend wisely and space out purchases, but if I am seriously missing out not getting new monitor + top CPU/MB right now, then I would consider splashing out.
So basically I can't make my mind up, monitor vs CPU/MB now, if CPU now then X99 vs i7 6700k vs cheaper i5, or wait generally for Haswell-E to see what happens to prices. Also, would everything still fit in my case and is my PSU good for another 5 years... the current pc has probably seen moderate to little use the past 3 years due to PS4.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
Cheers!
I have been waiting for 2016 to upgrade my pc, mainly in anticipation of Oculus/Vive, but also because my current pc was built in 2010! I have also recently purchased a EVGA 980ti FTW in sales, and so mainly want to upgrade the CPU and motherboard to match this. I would normally have waited until later this year but I feel it would be a waste having the 980ti with my current setup and monitor for the next 6 months. My monitor is also 1080p and so again I'm not making the most of the 980ti as it stands.
Current Setup:
- CPU: Intel Core i7 950 Bloomfield 45nm
- Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
- MB: Asus P6X58D-E
- RAM: HyperX Savage 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 2400 MHz DDR3 CL11 (bought Aug 2015)
- HDD1: Crucial BX100 250 GB 2.5-Inch SATA III
- HDD2: 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
- HDD3: 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
- GPU: 6GB EVGA 980Ti FTW (bought Dec 2015)
- CASE: Antec P183 Advanced Super Mid Tower
- PSU: 850W Antec CP-850 PSU (comes with CASE)
- Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster BX2450 1080p
- OS: Windows 10
- Gaming (Most FPS, ARMA 3 mods / other online open world, Total War, most new games)
- VR (Oculus or Vive)
- Music Production (Cubase)
- Video / Photo editing (Adobe Premiere Pro / After Effects / Photoshop)
- Music / Movies
- Coding (potentially Python/RoR/.Net)
- General stuff
(1) upgrade now to X99, maybe an OC'd i7 5820k, to get immediate benefits or wait until Haswell-E to see what happens to prices and whether Haswell-E is a big enough upgrade over Broadwell-E... Or go with Skylake i7 6700k now
(2) stick with CPU/MB for now and upgrade monitor to somthing like Asus PG278Q ROG Swift to better utilise 980ti. Decide on CPU upgrade later this year / next year depending on how much I can save again
(3) do cheaper upgrade to i5 now and wait for new MB socket type next year (hopefully) for Skylake-E, maybe stretch budget to get new monitor also
(4) Go all out and buy new monitor and CPU/MB / anything else that needs upgrading
My current thoughts are:
(1) if moving to X99, it is likely that no further chips will come out after Haswell-E and so I am stuck with this setup for 5 years (unless I upgrade again earlier), however a 6-core 4-4.4 GHz CPU probably should suffice for that period? It probably isn't likely that Haswell-E is going to be that much better that Broadwell-E within my price range, also Skylake-E chips will use a different socket to i7 6700k, so there is no benefit of going Skylake now with a view to waiting for Skylake-E... so I'm leaning towards X99 Haswell-E if upgrading CPU/MB, I could also sell my RAM and get DDR4 equivalent.
(2) I am definitely under-utilising 980ti with current monitor so am due an upgrade on this at some point, a 1440p 27" 90Hz+ would be great
, especially since it would be used for everything I do, unlike VR. However if I am getting VR anyway later this year the i7 950 might not be quite enough for that and so I may need still budget to upgrade CPU/MB for then, and so am therefore better off buying the CPU/MB now and saving for the monitor to buy later this year. G-sync / 90Hz+ monitors are becoming a bit more common and so there might be sense in waiting to see what comes by summer.(3) a cheaper CPU/MB update might cover me for VR and allow my budget to strech for a nice monitor now also (I could go up to £850 if needed). I could also then wait to see next year what Skylake-E is like if it comes out and decide to do an incremental CPU/MB upgrade then. Downside is that I won't get the benefits of the hyperthreading / 6-cores now, which I probably would make use of to some extent with editing and development.
(4) Would prefer to spend wisely and space out purchases, but if I am seriously missing out not getting new monitor + top CPU/MB right now, then I would consider splashing out.
So basically I can't make my mind up, monitor vs CPU/MB now, if CPU now then X99 vs i7 6700k vs cheaper i5, or wait generally for Haswell-E to see what happens to prices. Also, would everything still fit in my case and is my PSU good for another 5 years... the current pc has probably seen moderate to little use the past 3 years due to PS4.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
Cheers!
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