looking to upgrade now that my motherboard died, also some socket questions

[creecher]

well, its been a good 8 years with my current baby. she ran everything great, was able to run mediumish setting on 4k with my 770's

so, im trying to find a replacement for my 920. the 920 has the full 2 way x16, and id like to keep that if possible. from the research ive done, the 'replacement' for lga 1366/x58 was lga 2011? but now thats kind of old, but it seems i think skylake has replaced that? x99? unfortunatly it seems the best option for that is ****ing 500+mobo+ddr4.

while im not opposed to spending good money for good **** that lasts, 1g is quite a load of money. so my questions are
also, id like to record 4k video @60fps. i couldnt do that with either my cpu or gpus. so i guess that falls under encoding?

• whats the current replacement for lga 1366?
• what price range am i looking at?
• is there better stuff like right around the corner? ie this quarter or mabye next.

thanks,
creecher

 

[ATMINSIDE]

X99 is today's equivalent of X58.
If you can't pony up the cash for X99 then you're looking at Z170.

So... what price range are you looking at?

Dual x16/x16 has basically no impact on GPU performance unless benchmarking, especially on a 770 which can't saturate a 3.0 x16 bus anyway.

 

[wingman99]

I would go for the i7 6700k and ASRock Z170 Extreme 4.

 

[EarthDog]

Performamce loss is ~1% at 8x...not much at all. I'd also go skylake/z170.

 

[wingman99]

Review of a X99 SLI compare 8X to 16x

 

[EarthDog]

Nice! Confirms what we said.