Pc for SC

[Sneakytiger]

Well gonna be  changing my pc next year
hers the current specs i'm looking at

case:corsair (not sure which yet)
mother board:new gigabyte x99
memory:16gb  of ddr4
cpu:intel  i7 5820k
gpu: now not sure here, i have a gfx 760 2gb card at the moment, i might either add another or swap it out for 1 of the new 9 series nvidea's

already have ssd and harddrive

tell me what u think my current pc is over 5 yrs old so hence the change.

[OldBloke]

Well gonna be  changing my pc next year
hers the current specs i'm looking at

case:corsair (not sure which yet)
mother board:new gigabyte x99
memory:16gb  of ddr4
cpu:intel  i7 5820k
gpu: now not sure here, i have a gfx 760 2gb card at the moment, i might either add another or swap it out for 1 of the new 9 series nvidea's

already have ssd and harddrive

tell me what u think my current pc is over 5 yrs old so hence the change.

I would park any thoughts of specs until just before you're ready to buy.

:2cents:

[BrotherTobious]

Agreed with ob. Unless your seeing your machine is struggling with the games you are playing at moment.

[Chaosphere]

Yeah wait for now...

Although, remember its likely your CPU still isn't the limiting factor, and another 760, if you can get one on the cheap (ebay!) could dramatically increase your game performance on the cheap, and still be useful for any future upgrade where you can just migrate the GPUs to, rather than buying new ones! Most games aren't CPU limited yet.

Personally, I wouldn't touch this new generation of CPUs. I'd give it until at least the next iteration of DDR4 before upgrading, unless you 100% need to do it sooner. Just because I am always wary of taking brand new tech up at the front line, before it has had a chance to breathe and have any kinks ironed out. Probably DDR4 is perfectly good and stable already, but no doubt with the next gen choice will increase, price decrease, and stability and cost/£ likely will only go up up up.

[Sneakytiger]

Problem I have is I want to use sata 3 SSd but my board is only sata2 capable,so do I get a new budget board in the meantime or go for a new pc that I won't need to upgrade for a long time?

[Galatoni]

Sata 3 is reverse compatible so try not to worry about that. You'll obviously be capped at the speed of the interface, and there is a possibility that you'll need to configure your BIOS and reinstall your OS. You might already know this, so excuse me if i'm teaching you to suck eggs. But other then that I think you're golden.  But they're right - totally wait until the last possible moment.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/273387-32-sata-sata-motherboard

[lionheart]

Could buy one of these ?

[Sneakytiger]

been thinking of upgrading my pc any way, so i will in the new year, my cpu is a xeon 5518 so its only 2.13ghz
think its time maybe i'll just upgrade the board and chip, will see in the new yr.

[Galatoni]

Could buy one of these ?

I did not know they did those. Nice one!

[kregoron]

Note the 5820 had a limited amount of pcie lanes, so a second card wont run more then x8. Its argued how much impact it has, tho modern cards like the big bandwith.

[kregoron]

Tho some motherboard manufactures will probably add more lanes by using extra chips, but tho tend to loose bit compared to native lanes