jeppouza
Go for X99, make no mistakes.

sethleigh

bg8780
How the heck are you guys seeing bottlenecks on these modern systems?! I'm still on X58 and I never see CPU go over 30% in any games. Do the extra two cores really make that much of a difference, even on this super old architecture? I've been wanting to upgrade for the past two years but I've just never been able to justify it every time Intel comes out with a new chipset and it's only a bit faster. Granted, I have to run my SSD's in RAID to see comparable read/write speed to SATA 3.
 
I still find myself eyeing up a new X99 board but I just can't justify spending that much money for a bump in performance.

This. I'm currently running an x58 as well, in my case a 6-core Xeon 5680 running at between 3.8ghz and 4.1ghz, depending on whether I feel like a reboot. I'm running a 1080 SC video card, and I don't really feel that limited in any of the games I play. I'm currently in the process of a rebuild around the X99 FTW K and Core i7 6900 with 32gb of DDR4 3200 RAM, but it's more because I just want to than because I can actually justify it for lack of sufficient performance. Fact is, if I'm honest with myself, my X58 Xeon system is running just fine. I just want to rebuild it, and once I've wrapped my mind around something that I want to do, I'm probably going to do it. I'll see a few fps difference in games, but is that worth all the money I'll spend? Probably not. Still doing it, though. 
 
I think the OP's machine is still almost certainly way more than fine for game playing. Sure, he won't make it into benchmark HOF with it, but who really cares? If he cared, he'd already have his answer. 

The only question for the OP is this: is it worth the money to you? If it is, then knock yourself out. I chose X99 and an 8-core i7 6900 because I've wrapped my mind around the idea that my machine will be a monster. That idea is apparently something I'm willing to pay for. Are you?

sethleigh

cyberdimensions
I went from an i5 4690k with a gtx 780 to what's in the sig just this year. I upgraded the power supply, then I upgraded the cpu and the case, added the water cooler, then got the 1080, then upgraded the fans in preparation for the second 1080, the finally got the hb Sli bridge. You see how this all came about, typical case of upgrade fever trying to eliminate the weak spots. If I do go x99 I think I am going to settle for a 6850k, not sure yet though. That 6900k looks tempting but it's like another 200 bucks for that thing, right?

Hehe, well you're playing computer whack a mole aren't you? Admit it though: the single thing you've done, by far, which gave you the performance you see now vs. the performance you saw a year ago was getting the first 1080. Even going SLI 1080 gives you a diminishing return. Upgrading the cpu gives an even more diminished return. Is it still faster? Yes. Is any single $650 you spent so far even in the same ballpark in terms of upgraded performance as that first 1080? No way. Still, there's absolutely nothing wrong with spending money on your computer if you have the money, and it's what you like to do.
 
I always mention that some people will spend thousands of dollars raising their pickup truck by six inches. Seems like a complete waste to me, but hey, it's their money, and they're just more into raised trucks than I am. They probably see the money I dump into my computer every few years and think what a waste, I could have added a chrome exhaust pipe for that money...

I was going to go for the i7 6850 as well. It seemed like the sweet spot in terms of price/performance for the new i7 broadwell-E line. Then I got to thinking (that was my first mistake) that between the motherboard ($240 or so for the FTW K on sale a week or so ago) and the RAM ($239 for DDR4 3200 CL 14 off Newegg) and the i7 6850 being a $600 chip, that's already like an $1100 rebuild cost. I'm getting a great deal from a friend of mine on an i7 6900 for only a couple hundred more than I'd pay for the 6850. So the logic here is: what's another $200 in that large outlay for the this project to take the machine from being beastly (with a 6850) to truly monstrous (with a 6900)? I suppose I could make the same argument to jack it up to a 6950, but you gotta draw the line somewhere, right? LOL.

Just get the X99, a 6850 or 6900, and be done with it. Then cut your credit card in half, hand it over to a trusted friend, or whatever you gotta do to stop the spending. :-)

Viper453
hmm I get 88c with prime95 at 4ghz might need to get another cooler. I order a Swiftech H320 X2 AIO CPU Cooler and will exchange the h115i.