- Jan 20, 2015
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In about 2 months I will have roughly 2700$ to spend on a new workstation (primarly), gaming pc (secondarily).
I'm working with 3D graphics (modelling, rendering etc.). It isn't my main source of income, but it is almost half of it. You wouldn't believe on what I'm working on now - it's a prehistoric caveman build.
Q6600 + 8gbddr2 + 8800gt
Unfortunately, I had so much other expenses (bought a car amongst others, so I simply couldnt afford upgrading PC for a long time)
While I'm able to work on this fine in most cases, I am not able to upgrade up from 3ds Max 2012 because this system wouldn't handle that. Also, rendering times, especially for some Archviz are painfully long. (as you can probably imagine)
Now, I bet that upgrade to a 5820K system with 32gb of DDR4, SSD and GTX 970 would be such, that my jaw would likely drop all the way to the China from being amazed by it.
What bothers me, since I'm paying off a car and few other expenses, I wan't to buy something that's really future proof and can settle me for a longer period of time. Since Skylake "should" come out this year, and it's intels "tick" release, I presume those which come out first would be "S" versions? If so, Skylake-K could be released in 2016?
So in 2 moths time, when I have 2700$, what would you do. Or, rather, what do you thin I should do since I'm considering these options_:
1. Buy Hasswell-E (5820k)
2. Wait for Skylake-S, with presumeably cheaper DDR4 by then. And then in 2016 replace the S with K
3. Get Broadwell?
4. Wait for Skylake k?
I'm not bothered to sit on this old rig IF skylake would be worth it (cost/performance/feature/guture proof wise)
Eager to hear your advices
I'm working with 3D graphics (modelling, rendering etc.). It isn't my main source of income, but it is almost half of it. You wouldn't believe on what I'm working on now - it's a prehistoric caveman build.
Q6600 + 8gbddr2 + 8800gt Unfortunately, I had so much other expenses (bought a car amongst others, so I simply couldnt afford upgrading PC for a long time)
While I'm able to work on this fine in most cases, I am not able to upgrade up from 3ds Max 2012 because this system wouldn't handle that. Also, rendering times, especially for some Archviz are painfully long. (as you can probably imagine)
Now, I bet that upgrade to a 5820K system with 32gb of DDR4, SSD and GTX 970 would be such, that my jaw would likely drop all the way to the China from being amazed by it.
What bothers me, since I'm paying off a car and few other expenses, I wan't to buy something that's really future proof and can settle me for a longer period of time. Since Skylake "should" come out this year, and it's intels "tick" release, I presume those which come out first would be "S" versions? If so, Skylake-K could be released in 2016?
So in 2 moths time, when I have 2700$, what would you do. Or, rather, what do you thin I should do since I'm considering these options_:
1. Buy Hasswell-E (5820k)
2. Wait for Skylake-S, with presumeably cheaper DDR4 by then. And then in 2016 replace the S with K
3. Get Broadwell?
4. Wait for Skylake k?
I'm not bothered to sit on this old rig IF skylake would be worth it (cost/performance/feature/guture proof wise)
Eager to hear your advices
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