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I'm using a very nice rig at the moment to play games, but I built it in 2012, adding on parts occasionally, these are specs:
Windows 10
i5-3570k @ 3.8GHz
MSI Z77A-G43 MOBO
H60 Cpu cooler
MSI GTX 970
4 x 2GB ram at 1600MHz
128GB OCZ Vertex4
256GB Samsung
1440p Asus 60Hz
1080p Samsung, 60Hz
1600x900 HP (for TS3, really)
I'm looking to upgrade to a PCIe based SSD setup in the next few months with a pascal GPU and the newest CPU, with the idea in mind that I'll be able to upgrade the GPU in a year or two to a SLI setup with hope that DX 12 mixed GPU will allow for better sli performance.
With that in mind, it seems i'll need something with more than 16 PCI lanes. The skylake 6xxx CPUs come with 16 lanes, while the haswell-e CPUs are 28 or 40, depending on the model #. I'm expeciting the $600/$550 versions of broadwell-e to have 40 PCI lanes, and I'm hoping nvlink/PCIe 4.0 will not ruin my upgrade paths in the future, but I've only been building PCs for 4 years now, and I'm not sure what the future looks like concerning those.
My expectations are this:
buy a CPU/mobo that can support single/dual/triple pascal cards in the next 3 months/1 year/2 years respectively, while scaling up in FPS at given settings close to 100%/200% from single card. It looks like dx12 will be a good avenue for adding second generation Pascal and Volta cards along side each other by the time volta hits the consumer in 2.5 years.
any advice on this project would be helpful, particularly concerning pascal/nvlink/broadwell-e
Windows 10
i5-3570k @ 3.8GHz
MSI Z77A-G43 MOBO
H60 Cpu cooler
MSI GTX 970
4 x 2GB ram at 1600MHz
128GB OCZ Vertex4
256GB Samsung
1440p Asus 60Hz
1080p Samsung, 60Hz
1600x900 HP (for TS3, really)
I'm looking to upgrade to a PCIe based SSD setup in the next few months with a pascal GPU and the newest CPU, with the idea in mind that I'll be able to upgrade the GPU in a year or two to a SLI setup with hope that DX 12 mixed GPU will allow for better sli performance.
With that in mind, it seems i'll need something with more than 16 PCI lanes. The skylake 6xxx CPUs come with 16 lanes, while the haswell-e CPUs are 28 or 40, depending on the model #. I'm expeciting the $600/$550 versions of broadwell-e to have 40 PCI lanes, and I'm hoping nvlink/PCIe 4.0 will not ruin my upgrade paths in the future, but I've only been building PCs for 4 years now, and I'm not sure what the future looks like concerning those.
My expectations are this:
buy a CPU/mobo that can support single/dual/triple pascal cards in the next 3 months/1 year/2 years respectively, while scaling up in FPS at given settings close to 100%/200% from single card. It looks like dx12 will be a good avenue for adding second generation Pascal and Volta cards along side each other by the time volta hits the consumer in 2.5 years.
any advice on this project would be helpful, particularly concerning pascal/nvlink/broadwell-e