X99: will it still be good when Skylake is here?

[FordGT90Concept]

Man, even x58 is still more than enough for most anything anybody does today. Even the best S775 setups are more than enough, IMO. The speed from newer hardware shines in benchmarks and some specific situations like video encoding, or WCG, stuff like that. Sandy Bridge was the last time Intel really tried to improve raw CPU power. Now, they seem to be focusing on iGPU development and energy efficiency... which isn't really a bad thing. Even for serious gamers, the iGPU now has some use, thanks to QuickSync. I'd like to see something come from AMD, even if it's just quad cores or 6 cores again, but they need to be improved. The way they did Piledriver didn't turn out too well IMO.

The relatively low clockspeeds of X58 are starting to show in games.

 

[dorsetknob]

The relatively low clockspeeds of X58 are starting to show in games.

So Overclock that sucker

Amd and intel seemed to have given up on the Mhz/Ghz war Clocks are relatively unchanged over the last few years
Intel won that war and will now only increase clock speed by a miserly amount with each new chip release

 

[n-ster]

i7 920s OCed to 4Ghz or i5 2500K OCed were such great buys at the time... They still do sooo well for such old hardware

Since those times, I feel like upgrades are more for the motherboard than they are for the actual CPU

 

[peche]

upgrades now days are mostly GPU and cooling solutions... i my personal opinion ...

 

[n-ster]

I meant, upgrading the CPU has more to do with upgrading the chipset than it does with upgrading for the CPU's performance

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I am dying to upgrade my i7 950 @ 4.2 - 4.4Ghz...but nothing has really made me want to. I almost went 5820k/DDR4 but benchmarks were not OMFGWTF!!! I was like yeah that is better but not $1k+ better. Hopefully Skylake will make either price drops on the 5820 or fast enough that I am forced to upgrade.

upgrades now days are mostly GPU and cooling solutions... i my personal opinion ...

That is exactly what I have done. Added more RAM, Faster SSD, and new video cards. I run everything nearly maxed on 2560x1600...I just had my first real slow down on Witcher 3 with all the eye candy turned on that started the upgrade bug again. But my first thing I was going to upgrade was get another 780ti for sli....

 

[Conti027]

I am dying to upgrade my i7 950 @ 4.2 - 4.4Ghz...but nothing has really made me want to. I almost went 5820k/DDR4 but benchmarks were not OMFGWTF!!! I was like yeah that is better but not $1k+ better. Hopefully Skylake will make either price drops on the 5820 or fast enough that I am forced to upgrade.



That is exactly what I have done. Added more RAM, Faster SSD, and new video cards. I run everything nearly maxed on 2560x1600...I just had my first real slow down on Witcher 3 with all the eye candy turned on that started the upgrade bug again. But my first thing I was going to upgrade was get another 780ti for sli....

Same here. Still running a x58 with my i7-920 @ 4.2Ghz. Hasn't been a real reason to upgrade for me since the most demanding thing I do is play games but I really! want to upgrade.
Might do Skylake or Cannonlake or maybe even buy some cheaper i7 gen4 when the new stuff is out.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Same here. Still running a x58 with my i7-920 @ 4.2Ghz. Hasn't been a real reason to upgrade for me since the most demanding thing I do is play games but I really! want to upgrade.
Might do Skylake or Cannonlake or maybe even buy some cheaper i7 gen4 when the new stuff is out.

Well we for sure got our money out of socket 1366.

And that is the type of upgrade I expect. When I went from a OC'd Q6600 to OC'd Q9650 it was a big step. But from the OC'd Q9650 to OC'd i7 950 was HUGE. Now it's like 5% gains every generation but much, much better power usage and I don't care about as much...lol.

 

[dorsetknob]

still can get

Well we for sure got our money out of socket 1366.

upgrade to a 6 core Xeon 56 series

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

still can get
upgrade to a 6 core Xeon 56 series

I did look into that, but not early enough. That was something I should have done a year or two ago. But really just more threads and doesn't OC any better, or at least not like enough to make it all that worth while. If I was doing some video editing or similar tasks would have made sense. But for gaming I don't see it being a good enough upgrade to warrant the expense.

Guess it would be something to play around with. You can find used e5670s for like $100.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

me too.....


I'm pretty sure that my ivy bridge will last 2 years more being powerful, so no need to move on from my system, hopping that a video card will help me to get better textures on most games, looking forward to a GTX 970 at minimum, gigabyte obviously!

I will be seat watching the bullfight between skylake and all the existing processors/ games / apps / benchs and related topics,


Regards,

I might just end up jumping ship anyway because I need a new motherboard soley for the use of 4+ Intel SATA 6GB/s connections. If I do, I can then run my own benchmarks on my old system and run the same on my new system and post results for people like us that are still using SB.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I asked cadaveca to run a few benchmarks several months ago. He had a 5820k, 16gb ddr4, and a 780ti. Like I said the results were better...but not amazing and not enough real world performance difference to justify for me. I believe he outscored me on 3dmark by roughly 15% and the heaven benchmark was even lower. I play games mostly and and extra 5/10FPS isn't going to make or break a game for me. As I can just drop shadows down a notch or some other minor effect that is a performance hog.

That said I will look forward to your results.

 

[husseinHr]

Sorry I haven't looked at the thread for a while, but since X99 is good for non gaming things as well I'll just go with that. I'll be doing video editing and sucha as well as gaming, so i can use the extra cores and things.

Thanks for the input, folks!