well so yeah lol or should I upgrade to skylake or wait for Skylake-E
No, it isn't a god. But yes, it should be good enough for twin 980tis. Have fun puking up money.
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Yeah that's demi god
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You'll probably be fine, but if you experience any slight bottlenecking I'm sure you could overclock it to 4.6ish ghz and that should alleviate it.
With an overclock it would be about the same as a 6700k. I would think it would be a fine cpu for those gpus when overclocked.
It would be great. But why not grab an i7-6700k instead? The difference here is minimal. Might as well go for the new platform.
You will be fine with a 4790K.
No matter which cpu you trow at it, you will be cpu bottlenecked in some scenario´s anyways.
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No cpu is good enough for dual 980 tis With that said a 4790k isn't a bad choice, its no better or worse than its skylake or x99 counterparts for gaming
I just want one 980-ti.....
(1080p though.)
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DDR4 is expensive as hell.
DDR4 prices are just about the same as DDR3 now.
$20 difference.
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I aint got that cash, not when im getting a water cooled 980 ti.
sides haswell is barely inferior to x99. at this time there is no point to upgrade.
Actually it will run but it doesn't have enough lanes in the cpu to run both 980 ti's at x16. It will run them at x8 each. This becomes a problem if you want to use a m.2 or pcie ssd which use x4. I have a 4790k with a 980 and am able to get 60fps at 1440p with everything maxed but if I was in your shoes I would go with x99 instead
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This will not realy be a problem
Mainstream i7´s simply dont have more then 16 pci-e lanes anyway.
M.2 storage will go over the dmi 2.0 bus in case of Haswell,
which are basicly 4 pci-e lanes dedicated from the chipset.
If you need more then 20 lanes for whatever reason,
then X99 would indeed be a better choice.
But i dont think that would be realy the case as far as the "op" goes.
There are a couple of over expensive Z97 boards with plx chips,
but yeah, those are not realy worth it to look at imo.
I would go for the i7-5820k all day for this setup.
I dont realy see why he should do that, if he allready has a 4790K atm.
Of course if he is looking to build a totaly new system, then yeah X99 would be interesting to look at.
I missed it if he mentioned he already had a LGA 1150 board. My reasoning is the PCIe lanes available in X99. With SSD's/M.2/NVME being made more available having the room and upgrade path never hurts.
Yes i basicly agree with this,
if he would build something new, and he wants a dual 980Ti and some pci-e SSD's and stuff.
And if he is using the system for gaming and productivity workloads.
then yeah X99 would be more interesting to look at then Skylake for that matter.
Especialy if you look at the pricing, the 6700K is more expensive then the 5820K, which basicly makes no sense.
But for mainaly gaming, i would just stick with the 4790K, like i said above.
several other technical advantages as well, but not sure if the OP is interested, I assume( don't like to) it's a gaming rig.
The more I read this the more concerned I get by someone who is thinking about upgrading his year old cpu to another cpu but doesn't know how it's going to effect the $1200 dollar sli gpu setup...something seems fishy here
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