for a while now Intel's been providing us with Enthusiast grade X Series
platforms starting with x58 and since then rolling out x79 and x99 and
although most of you probably know that these chipsets support beefy 6 and 8
core processors and tons of PCI Express Lanes what exactly are you getting in
terms of performance by going for an X chipset and with the price of ddr4
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today we have a showdown between the Haswell e core i7 5820k with six cores
and 12 threads running on an x99 chipset and the new Sky Lake core
i76700k with four cores and eight threads running on a zed 170 chipset
although the 5820k isn't the most expensive processor compatible with the
x99 chipset we picked it to see how a processor One Step Up from Intel's
highest and mainstream offering would fair in addition to the extra processing
cores x99 also offers more PCI Express
Lanes than the mainstream option like the Z 170 chipset you get 20 lanes with
the 6700k but 28 Lanes with the 5820k
and the more full fat x99 CPUs namely
the 5930k and the 5960x give you a total of
40 PCIe Lanes making x99 an interesting
option if you're planning to run three or four graphics cards but what about
those of us who don't have just huge stacks of cash to drop on an SLI or
Crossfire setup and are just curious about moving moving to higher-end
chipsets well we checked prices on New Egg for the entire x99 and Zed 170
platforms including motherboards CPUs and ddr4 RAM at the time we shot this
video you could expect to pay about $30 more for a 5820k than a 6700k and about
75 more for an x99 motherboard than a
z170 so you're looking at around $1
100ish Delta total average cost for an
x99 platform using a 5820k comes out to
about $745 assuming you'll pay around $15 for
16 GB of ddr4 RAM which has come down in
price quite a bit since this release one thing to keep in mind is that although
you can use quad Channel RAM on the x99
platform dual channel will actually work just fine so you should be able to save
a few bucks by buying just two sticks of memory if you can live without quad
Channel setup so what exactly do you get for that extra 100 bucks to find out we
ran a few numbers for both gaming and non-gaming benchmarks on our test bench
we used a pair of ASUS motherboards the x99 deluxe and the z170 deluxe and kept
all other components constant across both platforms namely 16 GB of Corsair
Vengeance DDR RAM running at
2,133 MHz a reference NVIDIA GTX
980ti and a 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD a
Corsair h100i GTX CPU Cooler and a
Corsair ax1200i power supply we ran both
of our CPUs and graphics cards at stock speeds jumping right into it we started
out with a couple synthetic benchmarks to test multicore performance although
the skyl 6700k performed respectively in both Cen and 7zip the 5820k with its six
cores outclassed it by a pretty comfortable margin winning by about 15%
in cinebench and about 23% in szip our
single-threaded benchmarks though told a different story we use the dolphin
Benchmark which is actually part of a Nintendo Wii Emulator but never mind
that we used it to retrace a 3D image here the Skylake processor shows its
improved single core performance as it beats out the more expensive Haswell e
chip by over 2 minutes we also ran web expert a benchmark that tests both HTML
5 and JavaScript performance on the latest version of Google Chrome the
6700k one again beating out the 5820k by
about 19 % in this more single core intensive task gaming wise we looked at
a couple titles that we knew about from past testing you can see our corer
gaming video up here we knew that they would benefit from a higher-end CPU
first up we used City skylines which we ran at 1080p with everything maxed out
here the 6700k won by a full 9 FPS even
with its fewer total cores moving all over to Total War atila however we also
ran at 1080p with extreme settings but this time around the 582k by a full 5
FPS we also wanted to check out a couple other popular titles just to see if
there was much of a difference in those Graphics intensive ones namely Tomb
Raider and Crisis 3 at 1080p the settings were cranked and it was hard to
distinguish these two chips apart although the 5820k W by two or 3 FPS in
both cases it wasn't a difference I'd call significant as both processors got
over 125 FPS in Tomb Raider and around
100 FPS in Crisis 3 so what's our
conclusion for starters it's pretty clear that the extra cores you get with
the x99 platform will help with things like encoding video and photo editing
and other heavy number crunching like tasks like say file compression or data
encryption but gaming results can vary
quite a bit depending on what's in your steam or origin library or whatever else
and the four core Skylake processors have a bit of a lead and more common
single-threaded tasks like web browsing and although you can overclock a 58 82k
to match the 4 GHz stock speed of the 6700k other tests have suggested that
Skylake is still Superior with respected instructions per clock or IPC meaning
that the Zed 170 looks like the way to go for most of you if what you're going
to be doing on your PC is web browsing and gaming even so thanks in part to the
greater availability of ddr4 memory it looks more affordable and practical than
ever before to set up an Enthusiast grade platform if you'll be taking
advantage of its extra cores and P C express lanes also don't forget that
we're seeing newer features natively supported by the Zed 170 such as USB 3.1
starting to pop up on newer x99 boards as well so you won't necessarily be
missing out on latest gen Tech and be left feeling like the CPUs are always
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