building a new rig with " NVIDIA-SLI"

[aQi]

Z170 would be my choice. You'll get DDR4 support, maybe an M.2 slot and some other new features, which x79 cannot offer. x99 is definitely better in terms of performance/expandability, but it is much-much more expensive overall.

I'm kinda in the same boat right now: trying to build a cheap, but long-lasting Skylake rig before retiring my x58 setup. Going x79 or x99 would've killed my wallet, which brings me to a part where I'm looking at brand new and still under warranty from seller and manufacturer MSI Z170-A PRO (bought for $80) and a pair of 4GB DDR4-2666 sticks (traded for a 2x4 DDR3-2133 with $10 overpay). All I have left is a CPU, M.2 SSD and a new videocard, though my GTX 750Ti would probably do until Pascal arrives.

Regarding GTX 700 series: it is still quite expensive, but if you find a good deal and you are not planning on goind Win10/DX12 route, then you should buy it. And since you are willing to stretch your budget to GTX 780 Ti, then you may want to consider GTX 970 as an option. In most gaming benchmarks it falls somewhere in-between GTX 780 and 780Ti (+/- 10%) with approximately the same price on used market (at least where I'm from).

Well i will be selling 2x evga 560Ti and getting one 780Ti or should i say GTX 970????

i am gettting alienware x79 matx for now @70$ but then The Z170XP-SLI gives me visions of the PCIe 3.0 4x native support. Is there any X99 motherboard will minor damages i can fix? like missing a pci e slot? as i can truely resolder it.

They drop normally support/optimizations for anything below the newest series/architecture. However they still release SLI profiles and if needed extreme bug fixes for cards Fermi+ still as I recall.

Well, if its an X79 board you could probably get an i7 3820 for a reasonable price. I still see those floating around for decent and they perform very well.

If your running 1080p, nothing beyond a 780 will really make a difference (Or enough to be seen) of the choices listed.


Eh, personally I am not a crazy about sound cards as most boards in this day and age have good enough on board sound cards. Most of the time they are purchased when they need some extra ports/features that the normal on boards don't support as the quality is normally just fine. I would say no but its going to depend on the board you buy.

iv read the RT1150 and most of the people reviewed it even worst then the previous models. I never came across X-FI, SupremeFX, Core3D bla bla soundcards.

for i7 3820 for how much can i get if for? what about lga2011 xeons out there?

 

[GhostRyder]

Well i will be selling 2x evga 560Ti and getting one 780Ti or should i say GTX 970????

i am gettting alienware x79 matx for now @70$ but then The Z170XP-SLI gives me visions of the PCIe 3.0 4x native support. Is there any X99 motherboard will minor damages i can fix? like missing a pci e slot? as i can truely resolder it.



iv read the RT1150 and most of the people reviewed it even worst then the previous models. I never came across X-FI, SupremeFX, Core3D bla bla soundcards.

for i7 3820 for how much can i get if for? what about lga2011 xeons out there?

I've seen them go for about $150 on ebay (i7 3820).
You may find some xeons cheaper or same price depending on clocks but with that chip you can raise the base up decently depending on if that board supports it. Even if it does not, it starts high enough to give great gaming performance.

 

[aQi]

I've seen them go for about $150 on ebay (i7 3820).
You may find some xeons cheaper or same price depending on clocks but with that chip you can raise the base up decently depending on if that board supports it. Even if it does not, it starts high enough to give great gaming performance.

what about 3820 vs 980x vs 8c/16t lga2011 xeons???

 

[GhostRyder]

what about 3820 vs 980x vs 8c/16t lga2011 xeons???

I would take the 3820 over a 980X personally as its only really great for the extra cores but the improvements from that chip to Sandy are worth while. As for the Xeons on the same platform, well they are fine if you have programs to use more than 4 cores. For gaming though, 4 cores is enough with only up to 6 being used on even the most extreme games (Efficiently I meant, some claim to run on up to 8 cores but they do not use the cores overly efficiently). You can get a good Xeon, I would just say get a higher clocked variant if you can as otherwise the 3820 is a nice clocked option for the price and can do some base overclocking.

 

[aQi]

I would take the 3820 over a 980X personally as its only really great for the extra cores but the improvements from that chip to Sandy are worth while. As for the Xeons on the same platform, well they are fine if you have programs to use more than 4 cores. For gaming though, 4 cores is enough with only up to 6 being used on even the most extreme games (Efficiently I meant, some claim to run on up to 8 cores but they do not use the cores overly efficiently). You can get a good Xeon, I would just say get a higher clocked variant if you can as otherwise the 3820 is a nice clocked option for the price and can do some base overclocking.

Iv checked the 2x EVGA 560TI on an HP server today. Great Cards and Silent. Just ordered Artic MX-4 Thermal Compound.
Im in search of good deal setups.
Just got my hands on alienware watercooling. Im getting there but slowly