X99 Upgrade Question

[Hoyzon]

Hey guys, i currently thinking in upgrade from H97 to X99 instead of Z170.

Well, to come to this, i thought so much about it. I started to analyzing the longevity of Intel Extreme Platforms. X99 is around us have been a while, and it seems that it's going to still relevant for many many years yeat to come because of Broadwell-E that promises 6 8 and 10 Cores options(Rumor).

I saw the Skylake CPU's and didn't got impressed at all, i believe that i rather get a i7 4790K instead of moving to Z170, didn't saw a huge jump on performance that justify that change.

I'm willing to upgrade my PC in this year, i built it last year, and if i upgrade, i'll only upgrade again around 2018-2019, since i got more important things to invest my money on.

Anyway, if i'm going to move to X99, i'll have to change the MOBO/CPU/RAM. The RAM isn't a problem, but, X99 Motherboards and CPUs are hard to find and very expensive on Brazil. You can find an ASUS Entry Level X99 Mobo for around 450$ wich is an absurd. And Z170 Platform almost the same, the CPU is expensive and Motherboards are on a reasonable price.

So, my currently PC Specs is, i5 4590/8GB RAM/R9 270/MSI H97 Gaming 3 Mobo. Do you guys believe, that i7 4790K is a CPU that's going to handle the massive games that is yet to come till 2018? Or you guys believe it's better move to X99 due to it's longevity?

I hope you guys help me find an answer. Thanks.

 

[bignastyid]

Your i5 is a good gaming cpu. Youd see a better gaming boost with a new gpu.

 

[10tacle]

I saw the Skylake CPU's and didn't got impressed at all, i believe that i rather get a i7 4790K instead of moving to Z170, didn't saw a huge jump on performance that justify that change.

Ever since Sandy Bridge, the jump to the next tick/tock chipset has not been worth it if you owned the previous version (<10% performance boost). You need to skip three generations to make a new chipset upgrade worth it. So Sandy Bridge->Ivy Bridge->Haswell->Broadwell->Skylake. If you had Sandy or Ivy, an upgrade to Skylake is worth it. If you have Haswell, an upgrade to Skylake is not worth it.

So, my currently PC Specs is, i5 4590/8GB RAM/R9 270/MSI H97 Gaming 3 Mobo. Do you guys believe, that i7 4790K is a CPU that's going to handle the massive games that is yet to come till 2018? Or you guys believe it's better move to X99 due to it's longevity?

Your current i5 4590 will do you well until at least 2018 for gaming, especially if you game at higher resolutions and quality settings since most of the performance hit in those scenarios is on the GPU, not CPU. I plan on keeping my year and a half old 4590K that long. But if you want to do video editing or overclock, an upgrade to a 4790K will serve you even better.

 

[Hoyzon]

Yup, i'm going to upgrade my GPU soon, i was willing to get a R9 390, but i thought on wait until Polaris/Pascal arrives, but that's going to take ages and i don't know if i'll wait this long. I also thought on getting a GTX 980Ti, but it's going to be sadly if the Performance jump Between Pascal/Polaris are huge from the previous generation GPU's. I'm not a rich guy like many PC Gamers, i work really hard to buy these things, take months to reach up the money from a GPU, i have been saving for a while, i really don't know what to do anymore.

 

[sammy sung]

Is gaming your only intensive task? If so the 4790K would be your budget minded option, but realistically won't outperform the 4590 by enough to warrant the cost of a new motherboard and the processor itself. Neither would a jump to a 6600K/6700K.

That said, moving to a 5820K wouldn't be worth the money at all unless you were also doing tasks involving live gameplay streaming at moderate resolutions. Hosting a great many virtual machines, rendering 3D images and video, compressing video or various other files frequently. Or potentially planning to utilize more than one video card optimally. Aside from these things, the X99 boards come with a few bells and whistles over Z97/H97, but nothing game changing.

For a pure gaming purpose your current platform is more than adequate as of the moment.

 

[10tacle]

i have been saving for a while, i really don't know what to do anymore.

Well when you have money burning in your pocket and get that upgrade itch (we all get it as PC enthusiasts, being on a budget or not), it's best to cool your jets when there is a new GPU generation coming around the corner. Pascal and Polaris will be here this summer, and if history is any indicator, buyers of current generation cards when new ones are just months away usually get burned.

But like I said above, the only benefit you'd get from a 4790K would be if you want to overclock and do video editing. You'd see substantial performance increases in productivity over the i5. But for gaming only, not so much. (Same with the -E chips with 6 or more physical cores for that matter).

 

[Hoyzon]

I see, well, from now, i'm going to start using some Adobe Suit Programs, as i will too be Streaming great games that i like to play in the Future. I don't know if that counts as Intensive Tasks, the mainly programs that i use is, Photoshop/Lightroom. Sometimes i use the Premiere Pro when i try to make videos from my Gameplays.

From now, the Upgrade that i'm doing in this Exactly moment, is chaning my CX430 PSU to a 1000W PSU, for a SLI/CrossFire config in the years yet to come. I don't plan chaning the PSU until i make another Build, which is going to take so much time.