its been a while since the moster 5960X came out, and its still about a $1000 mark, although ive seen it peek its head out at just over 800 ish sometimes
but, at this point im wondering to myself out loud on the open forum here,.,,.,,..
by the time i can save up another $3500 bucks to build an all new massive middlefinger rig
would it be worthwhile just to wait for the new generation of stuff?
i mean it took years and years for them to move off of the x79 6 cores to that 2011 8 core cpu
currently im on an i5-2500k with 1866mhz ram and a 970
If you want to jump into the extreme side, chances are they will stick with x99 for a number of years. Though that is not a fact. If you want to go down the route of extremem cpu's but dont want to buy a 5960x right before the release of say the 6960x, you could go for the entry level cpu and upgrade when the new chip comes out. You will lose a bit but you will lose less if you upgrade from the 5960x.
However why do you need such a high end cpu? A good 4790k is more than enough for most people. Hell I do 3D renders, slice items for 3D printing, play and host games and more yet my 4770k at 4.5GHz is more than enough.
Skylake is supposed to be a big jump from broadwell and I wonder if a skylake z170 unlocked chip will outperform broadwell-e chips that wont even be here till next year.
Thinking that x99 is going to last terribly long is silly. PCIE is just about done and no one ever used it. usb 3.2 isn't terrible but it's still too slow. silicon photonics can't be that far away from production. interconnects and bandwidth are choking efficient multithreading and it's access to shared memory. avx512 is coming out shortly.
None of this matters if you are playing games or running a browser but if you are trying to build a compute beast the current chipsets are bandwidth crippled at almost every critical point.
Heat vs Surface Area have pretty much ended the ghz wars until physics changes or the materials and processes change. 14nm is getting awfully small and the power curve of complexity is going up against hard against single processor design. The Knights Landing Xeon Phi is going to have 8 billion transistors on 60'ish cores using silvermont + avx512 as a base and the Titan X has 8 billion transistors across several thousand "kernels" (shaders units).
Computing is likely going to focus on bandwidth, efficient memory sharing and a return to writing efficient code for highly threaded many cored processors at least until we see photonics make its way onto the processors themselves and possibly until we see a retooling to something other than silicon.
Ill put it this way. When I was buying my new rig, I was waiting for the 4930k. I waited months before I ended up buying a 4770k. I havent looked back. Though in the near future I may need all the power I can get, for now I only need a hyperthreaded quad core.
You sure it's going to be an enthusiast platform? A bit over a year after they released X99? I doubt it. X58 came out in 2008, X79 followed in 2011 - which is 3 years later. Then we have X99 that came out in august.
i guess im just bored idk id like to move up, a mobo that actually can boot from the samsung SM951 M.2 2280 (19nm MLC) on the PCIe 3.0 x4 slot or whatever the next greatest little chip will be
that ddr4 at super mega speeds
i just wanna build a system based off of being over the top i dont really need NEEED NEEEEEEEEEEEEED anything more than what i have already
but one point id like to make, is
an all solid state system a cpu that has more cores that i really need like 6-8 that are over-clockable (ive had my cpu for years now, and my next one i intend to keep for years as well)
ive never ran multiple gpu's but with that new direct x and the rumors of how magical that will be. i may very well want 2 gpu's at that time ive never owned the top tier mega flagship card before, always the number 2 card, 670/970 ect
so my next build id like to have the top level stuff just to make it my first true mega desktop
ive modified my current computer all to hell, so now i think that i have the skill and balls to really dig in and make something cool. but im the type of person that if i were to do it, id wanna go all the way and over the top (my current pc has 3 times the radiators than it actually needed just for the hell of it)
I see they will make it in 14nm, maybe bump the cache and possibly add 2 more cores but still use the X99 platform. I'm planning on building a new computer, since the X58 is starting to show it's age a bit and I was really hoping an 8 core K cpu would come out, so I might hang on for a bit longer than expected.
i want one so very very bad for work number crunching and rendering but i can't justify the near $3k cost personally or with my buisness account but i agree this is what would come next
at any rate, that chip is 22nm fab clocks to like 3.7 or 3.6 or whatnot' new ish. would that have similar gaming potential as the 5960x and at the same time massively more compute power for rendering and other work tasks ? still has 40 pci lanes instead of 8 cores its 14 so id only assume, its more power, but only worth it if we can get those clocks high enough to make gaming applications operate smoothly, can we take the clock speeds up and down like with speedstep on the K chips ? dont need all core so ill shut most off and use the first couple at an enhanced speed
besides anything more than a grand and even that s a craaazy amount on one chip of course unless i could find one somewhere used like in the wreckage of this burning orphinarium hospital ....
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