Out of touch need advice on upgrade

[stelly]

hold up, I just noticed all this this cards are pcie 3 I think my mobo is pcie 2, any performace choke?

I'm not a tech but i've heard some rumors that running a single Pci-Ex 3.0 card on a 2.0 slot will not affect performance . The performance will be affected if you plan to SLI/XFIRE more Pci-Ex 3.0 cards on 2.0 slots . Once again , i am not sure of this but i think that you will find tons of infos on the web . I did some benchmarks with this R9-280 , same cpu , same memory , different motherboards . Sabertooth P67 and Maximus V Formula ( Z77 and Pci-Ex 3.0 ) . Graphic scores were almost identical but i've noticed a higher cpu score with the Z77 board .

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Just to add to my skylake comment from earlier; Here are some benefits for waiting it out:

Skylake brings PCIe 4.0
LGA1151 socket
TDP up to 95w
Support for both DDR3 and DDR4 (the more people buy ddr4, the quicker the prices will fall)
Thunderbolt 3.0
Support for 20 PCI express 3.0 lanes
Support for Sata Express
14nm fab

Thats just a handfull of the features. thats not even counting the wireless charging it's bringing as a selling point for laptops. The tech there is called Rezence.

 

[peche]

Just to add to my skylake comment from earlier; Here are some benefits for waiting it out:

Skylake brings PCIe 4.0
LGA1151 socket
TDP up to 95w
Support for both DDR3 and DDR4 (the more people buy ddr4, the quicker the prices will fall)
Thunderbolt 3.0
Support for 20 PCI express 3.0 lanes
Support for Sata Express
14nm fab

Thats just a handfull of the features. thats not even counting the wireless charging it's bringing as a selling point for laptops. The tech there is called Rezence.

no need to say that skylake its near the future, but higher prices because of being a new line are awesome, I would like to have one of those futurist kickass combos, but my wallet can't afford it…maybe in a couple of years I replace my Ivy with a kickass combo…

also there is important to say that even the old lynfield ones are brave enough for gaming...

 

[ERazer]

well, pulled the trigger and bought Acer XB270H Abprz 27" Full HD G-Sync (loving it!) and ASUS GeForce GTX 970 to save a little cash to buy new bigger ssd which im still deciding

this one is for sale for 200$ intel, im intel fan when it comes to ssd

 

[peche]

well, pulled the trigger and bought Acer XB270H Abprz 27" Full HD G-Sync (loving it!) and ASUS GeForce GTX 970 to save a little cash to buy new bigger ssd which im still deciding

this one is for sale for 200$ intel, im intel fan when it comes to ssd

nice decision, about SSD's i rather crucial than intel.. but as you said... your fan of intel ones,

 

[ERazer]

I was thinking pulling my evo 840 500gb out of my MBP and use it for gaming then use the intel 530 since i have more sensative data in my MBP

 

[peche]

how much GB's do you need?