Thinking of a New System

bullbearish

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I'm running a 2600k and a 780ti system I built a few years ago. Is the performance gain worth the $1,500 to $2,000 to upgrade to a 2011-v3 board with a 5820k, M.2 SSD, and a 980ti? I'm not finding any good benchmarks for comparison.

I use the machine for everyday computing and for BF4 gaming.
 
For "everyday computer" use(web browsing, excel, ect.), and gaming a 980Ti itself should be just fine overall. Is your 2600K OCed at all? Do you have an SSD in your system right now? Would you be installing games, OS, or both on SSD(s)? Both the X99 Haswell-E and Skylake platforms themselves are very nearly identical feature wise. They both offer same storage options(M.2 and SATA Express), utilize DDR4, 802.11AC on certain boards. However, Skylake is technically the newer platform and has 20 PCI-E 3.0 lanes in the chipset itself. Haswell-E has 28-40 lanes in the CPU itself depending on model. Since your not doing professional work, you likely aren't going to need more than 4-Cores. X99 2011-v3 currently has up to 8-Core CPUs, whereas Skylake Z170 will max out at 4. With this in mind, in gaming both platforms will perform about the same w/ CPU's at around the same clockspeed.
 

vishal15

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yeah i would totally agree with 1LiguidPC , you should definitely go for the skylake platform , the i7 6700K has better architecture, better performance per dollar, lower power consumption, and for the solid points, it has massive clock and turbo clock speed improvements, more no. of displays supported, best in class intel integrated HD 530 graphics. better part though it can be overclocked upto 5 GHz VS 4.6 on 2600K. improved and fast DDR4 memory, improved bus architecture and speed. and will seriously feel far better than 2600k. you can see the comparison here http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-2600K