Haswell-e or Broadwell-e?

YashDi

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May 20, 2016
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Hello! I'm building a new pc, but i'm not sure which processor I should get. I have these parts already:

MSI x99s krait edition mobo
Raijintek triton cooler with 240mm rad
16gb ddr4 crucial ballistix sport memory @2400mhz
Nzxt noctis 450 case
Corsair rm850i psu
4tb toshiba sata hard drive

Im going to buy a 500gb samsung 850 evo ssd and a nvidia gtx 1080 hybrid.

I am going to use the pc for video/photo editing, 3d animation rendering and gaming.


Im not sure if i should get the i7 5930k or wait for the i7 broadwell-e with about the same price (around 650 euros is my budget for the cpu)

 
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The launch, last I heard , was the first week of June. So at this stage there is no point in jumping into a build when 3 weeks might net you a good performance gain or save you some bucks on the Haswell-e. BTW - with just 1 GPU you can just get the 5820k. Over clocks just as good but you cant run dual x16 gpu's with it natively. You'd need a motherbd with a pcie lane expander chip to do so, but gen3 x8 is not much slower then its x16 big brother. So even if you ran x16/x8 you would still get great performance.
The launch, last I heard , was the first week of June. So at this stage there is no point in jumping into a build when 3 weeks might net you a good performance gain or save you some bucks on the Haswell-e. BTW - with just 1 GPU you can just get the 5820k. Over clocks just as good but you cant run dual x16 gpu's with it natively. You'd need a motherbd with a pcie lane expander chip to do so, but gen3 x8 is not much slower then its x16 big brother. So even if you ran x16/x8 you would still get great performance.
 
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Thanks! I'll wait till broadwell-e comes out, and see which one will be better. I asked this question because all threads i found were outdated (2014-15)
I forgot to mention that I'm planning to do sli in the future, and with m.2 pci3.0x4 and maybe an expansion card those extra lanes would come in handy.