X99 Chipet Life

[baseballfreak21]

Earlier this year I built a new PC gaming rig with MSI's X99 SLI Plus motherboard and Intel's i7-5820K. I went this route so that I would have Intel's latest chipset. Right now I know there are only three X99 CPUs and in the future I would want to upgrade, but wanted to know if we will see more X99 chipset CPUs with the new Skylake CPUs coming out soon.

Also my current CPU only has 28 PCIe lanes and being someone who runs SLI, I am interested in knowing if having a CPU with more lanes would make a noticeable difference with 2x or 3x SLI.

 

[baseballfreak21]

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[Neutr1n0]

Yes there are more than just those 3 cpu, you already have xeon cpu on 2011-v3 socket that are supported on X99 platform. Usally intel is keeping there e-series socket for 2 generations, so i would expect next generation e-series to be on the same socket and supported on X99 platform...

with 28 pci-e lanes there will be (next to) no difference up till 3 way SLI if your mobo supports to be running ×8 ×8 ×8. I dont think for your mobo that's the case though. Thinking that it will only support x16 x8 x4 for 3-way SLI and then you will start to see some difference as from 3 way SLI. For sure no difference in 2-way SLI in x16 x8.

 

[baseballfreak21]

So X99 will likely last me only one more year of upgraded/updated CPUs? My motherboard doesn't support 3x X8?

 

[Neutr1n0]

So X99 will likely last me only one more year of upgraded/updated CPUs? My motherboard doesn't support 3x X8?

why worry? It wont be different for any other socket. all sockets have limited lifespan. You have a great CPU! Why would you want to upgrade? And like i said, there's plenty of Xeons that fit.

I just checked the specs of your MSI board and it DOES support x8/x8/x8! So you're good for 3-way SLI without any performance difference with 40 lane CPU.

 

[wbj707]

Skylake processor details are out there. It will be socket LGA 1151. They will not outperform X99/2011-3 Processors.
http://wccftech.com/intels-6th-generation-skylake-s-processor-lineup-leaked-core-i7-6700k-leads-pack-10-skus-detailed-samples-spotted/

 

[RobCrezz]

So X99 will likely last me only one more year of upgraded/updated CPUs? My motherboard doesn't support 3x X8?

That tends to be how it goes. X79 supported Sandybridge-E and Ivybridge-E. So its fairly logical to assume that X99 will support Haswell-E and Broadwell-E.

That said, your CPU is great. I doubt you will need to upgrade for many years.

 

[wbj707]

I agree X99 is the way to go and is ahead of most games you can throw at it. Even X79 builds can handle most games with ease. Your PC is set for many moons to come

Throw in 2 GTX 980's and your golden. 3x SLI isn't really worth it IMO. Price to performance ratio after 2x SLI is crap.

 

[baseballfreak21]

So X99 will likely last me only one more year of upgraded/updated CPUs? My motherboard doesn't support 3x X8?

why worry? It wont be different for any other socket. all sockets have limited lifespan. You have a great CPU! Why would you want to upgrade? And like i said, there's plenty of Xeons that fit.

I just checked the specs of your MSI board and it DOES support x8/x8/x8! So you're good for 3-way SLI without any performance difference with 40 lane CPU.

Because I want to make sure when it gets to the point to where my CPU is the bottleneck after upgrading my GPUs I can upgrade to a powerful enough processor to give me another few years of highend 4K gaming.