I was wondering if anyone could help me with choosing a mini it skylake board. I want it to have WiFi on board so choose the MSIi z170i gaming ac but I've heard some mixed reactions with this. Overclocking isn't necessary but it would be interesting to hear anyones experience with this board. I am willing to upgrade to an unlocked i5 if their is a motherboard that suits overclocking. Also feel free to let me know of any compatibility issues with my all white build (particularly on the Kraken x31, will it fit in the 380t?)
Thanks
Gabs
Aren't skylake ITX boards still relatively expensive? You should go for Haswell
Is Haswell future proof?, i want this build or at least the cpu to last for the next 4-5 years?
Nothing is future proof, skylake is only 5% faster than haswell per Ghz, No idea what kaby lake will be but it's probably not going to be any big jump anyways, as far gaming goes any old current gen intel i5 is going to be that good for a while, what's your current PC? you could always wait for zen it'll probably be decent performance per dollar, and skylake prices will be even lower by then
I've an i5 3330 with a 650ti. I had this built about 3 years ago and still holds up well today but i am looking to move towards programs like adobe premiere and photoshop as I start a film course in college.
Your CPU is fine, maybe get an 1155 i7 if you want more threads, but for a quick comparison a haswell i5 is hardly faster, a skylake i5 is hardly going to be faster than that, what was your budget for the PC?
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1475&cmp[]=2230
Ive a budget for about £800-£900 and want a good portion of that to go towards the gpu first but don't want to be bottlenecked when it comes to the adobe stuff
Well there's that for some idea on hardware, the 1231v3 is basically an i7 with no iGPU, not much faster than your current CPU but you get more threads
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However as far as just a secondary rendering/video editing machine given it's price you can't really go wrong with a 8320e
basically for this you'd just build the cheap secondary rig and let it do all your rendering/editing, and just buy like a 380 for your main rig as a GPU upgrade
your display should have 2 inputs and you could switch between them quiet easily
ALTHOUGH you should probably get a decent 990FX motherboard for the FX 8 core CPU, then you can even do a little overclocking and bridge the multi-threaded gap with the Xeon 1231v3
quick comparison of your CPU options
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1475&cmp[]=2374&cmp[]=2246
really the secondary rendering bitch build is probably the way to go
Don't worry about GPU rendering so much, that depends mostly on your codecs if I'm not mistaken
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Wow thanks, my experience with the i5 3330 has been pretty good with it running all the the games I like and can render decently so a slight upgrade is ideal and I'm not looking to spend too much on the cpu with me wanting to focus on the graphics card and peripherals. I like the idea of a second build though and ill look into it thanks.
Mostly it just lets you have your secondary machine do all the work while you play games or whatever on your main machine, otherwise if you get the Xeon and stuff your main rig is tied up and you'd be doing gaming and what not on the older machine
overall best bang for your buck is probably going to be the AMD secondary rig, and then just throw a new GPU with your i5 and call it a day, maybe get a new power supply for your i5 rig, and move the old one to the AMD rig as it won't be very stressed there