Wait for Broadwell E or buy Haswell E

[KING2882000]

Hello

I have a dead MB. I want to upgrade to an m2 supported MB.

I could buy a rampage v and a 5960x now or wait a half year or more for the 6960x. It would be the same Price i think. Maybe asus releases a rampage v black edition. 4 more threads and a better MB would be worth waiting, but until they are released i would have to use an old MB. Sure, it would work but its not very good and not something i like to use for such a long time.

Should i buy now or should i wait? Do you think Asus will release a new board?

[Korth]

Skylake is currently better than Haswell-E. But next year's Haswell-EX promises to be better than today's Skylake. I expect the "best" processors and motherboards will leapfrog a couple more times while Intel ticks and tocks through smaller nanofab lithographies.

I think you wouldn't be disappointed with either X99 or Skylake. If you just want the fastest gaming parts then just buy Z97/DDR3/i7-4790K for now and save some money for superior systems later. Intel's last few generations of chipsets/sockets/processors involve tradeoffs, you can now choose from a variety of nonlinear Intel upgrade paths, lol.

[Piers]

I came from the 4790K to the 6700K (the previous CPU died). So far, I'm very impressed. I know the reviews for Skylake have not been that great, but to me it's well worth the money.

[KING2882000]

Sry if you misunderstood. I want at least 8 cores, so there is only the x99 socket

My question: wait for 6950x (have to use an old board until its released) or just buy an 5960x? Do you think asus is going to release a better biard for broadwell e than the rampage v EX ?

[Vlada011]

I think you should upgrade on X99 chipset and i7-5930K.
Than you have 2 years to chose ideal combination for longer period.
Broadwell-E or Intel Xeon V3, or next series of Xeons.
Anyway if you want to upgrade from i7-5930K to some other version you will sell him for 2/3 of price.
If not you can stay on him until Lewisburg show up with 48 lanes + 20 from chipset and six channel DDR4 in autumn 2017.
8 core is good, but 8 core because lower frequency need really good cooling to work nice on 4.2-4.3GHz every day.
From other side Intel want to sell i7-5960X successor for only 650$...That's i7-6900K 8 core, because i7-6950X will be 10 cores...
Again I think that i7-6850K will be ideal combination of core and frequency, price.

You had ROG motherboard, maybe instead Rampage 5 or waiting Black is time to try ASUS X99-E WS USB 3.1.
I'm like very much that motherboard, and she work excellent probably. Maybe she have less overclocking settings but all important settings for OC are there.
Motherboard build to hold Xeons with 10-12-14 or 18 cores can't be bad hardware.
This is previous version, but there are second with Internal USB 3.1 ports...

[Korth]

Yes, I think Asus will eventually release an updated X99 mobo. Their best X99 right now - the R5E - is already beginning to be outclassed by top-end competitor offerings. There has been much speculation about an R5E Black Edition, I personally expect it will launch shortly after the Haswell-EX procs hit retail, and I expect it will essentially be the last and best X99 mobo available.

But Asus hasn't announced anything yet, I don't work for Asus, I don't know any Asus secrets. It's just the pattern they've established with previous chipsets.

There's always something better around the corner. You'll probably be lusting after a 6970X and X99+ and a TitanXX (or whatever) when the 6960X is actually available for X99. Buy yourself a costly high-end system now or buy it later, it's worth buying now if you want/need to have that extreme performance now.