June 7, 20169 yr Which Broadwell-E CPU? In regard to Broadwell-E, some may disagree, but I don't think you will see a significant difference in the sim for gaming. Thus... it could be a huge waste of money given the crazy high cost of the CPU. I would do some very careful research. IPC is minimal compared to Skylake.
June 7, 20169 yr Which Broadwell-E CPU? In regard to Broadwell-E, some may disagree, but I don't think you will see a significant difference in the sim for gaming. Thus... it could be a huge waste of money given the crazy high cost of the CPU. I would do some very careful research. IPC is minimal compared to Skylake. The new Skylake's use Broadwell and X99 motherboards. I want someone to go nuts and get the 10 core/20thread 6950X for $1600 ---Brian Bash---398 HR MEL PPL and climbing!
June 7, 20169 yr I should edit my post above. When I say IPC is minimal compared to Skylake, I mean there's a minimal "difference" in terms of IPC. The new Skylake's use Broadwell and X99 motherboards. No, Skylake is Z170 Brian. Unless you mean Skylake E, and I don't think we have any idea yet what's happening with that. I want someone to go nuts and get the 10 core/20thread 6950X for $1600 They have... http://www.avsim.com/topic/489489-just-ordered-the-following-for-p3d33/ And the claim is that the bigger cache and more cores will make a worthwhile difference in P3D. I'm doubtful of that claim. And in terms of the HUGE cost of the 6950X I don't believe there's any way it's worth it. I would contend that there would be barely any difference between Broadwell-E and Skylake.
June 8, 20169 yr I should edit my post above. When I say IPC is minimal compared to Skylake, I mean there's a minimal "difference" in terms of IPC. No, Skylake is Z170 Brian. Unless you mean Skylake E, and I don't think we have any idea yet what's happening with that. They have... http://www.avsim.com/topic/489489-just-ordered-the-following-for-p3d33/ And the claim is that the bigger cache and more cores will make a worthwhile difference in P3D. I'm doubtful of that claim. And in terms of the HUGE cost of the 6950X I don't believe there's any way it's worth it. I would contend that there would be barely any difference between Broadwell-E and Skylake. Maybe so with P3D, but I use my computer for 2 things. P3D and as my main brain in for my audio production/studio. Those 10 cores would make my rig a straight-up beast in Pro Tools. ---Brian Bash---398 HR MEL PPL and climbing!
June 12, 20169 yr Author Hi, I was looking at the 6900k for 8 cores. The rational is more room to off load OBS, ASN etc, and give more cores to P3D rendering. Looking at Rob As videos P3D is multi-core aware thus helping with smoothness and sharpness of terrain. I'm running 4K locked at 30hz so I'm hoping a little more grunt will keep me above that magic number. Regards James Intel 10900k @ 5.1 HT on, Nvidia 3090, 32GB RAM @3800mhz, 1TB NVME Drive (P3Dv5.1), 1440p 48' Ultrawide Monitor.
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