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for a while now intel has been providing us with enthusiasts grade x series platforms starting with x 58 and since then rolling out x 79 and x 99 and although most of you probably know that these chips that support beefy six and eight 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 dropping is it more feasible for the average PC builder these days also like the video if you guys are interested in more show content that's similar to the style of scrapyard Wars but isn't necessarily the same thing the Logitech G 303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with delta0 technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your setup click now to learn more today we have a showdown between the haswell-e core i7 5820k with six cores and twelve threads running on an ex ninety-nine chipset and the new skylake core i7 6700 K with four cores and eight threads running on a z170 chipset alone 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 fare in addition to the extra processing cores x99 also offers more PCI Express Lanes in the mainstream options like the Zed 170 chipset you get 20 lanes with the 6700 K about 28 lanes with the 5820k and the more full-fat x99 cpus namely the 59 30k and the 59 60 X gives you a total of 40 PCIe lanes making x99 an interesting option if you're planning to run 3 or 4 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 it just curious about moving to higher end chipsets well we checked prices on Newegg 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 6700 K and about 75 more for an X 99 motherboard than a Zed 170 so you're looking at around 100 ish dollar Delta total average cost for an X 99 platform using a 5820k comes out to about seven hundred and forty five dollars assuming you'll pay around 115 for sixteen gigabytes of ddr4 ram which has come down in price quite a bit since its 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 a sous motherboards the x99 deluxe and the z170 deluxe and kept all other components constant across both platforms namely 16 gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance DDR Ram running at 2,000 133 megahertz a reference nvidia gtx 980ti and a one terabyte Samsung 850 Pro SSD a corsair h 100 i GTH cpu cooler and a corsair ax 1200 i 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 multi-core performance although the skylake 6700 K performed respectively in both intervention 7-zip the 5820k with its 6 cores outclassed it by a pretty comfortable margin winning by about 15% in Cinebench and about 23% in 7-zip are more 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 use it to rate race 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 html5 and JavaScript performance on the latest version of google chrome the 6700 K won 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 course or gaming video up here we knew that they would benefit from a higher-end CPU first up we use City skylines which we ran at 1080p with everything maxed out here are the 6700 K won by a full 9 FPS even with its fewer total cores moving it all over to total war attila however we also ran at 1080p with extreme settings but this time around the 5820k won 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 in crisis 3 a 1080p the settings were cranked and it was hard to distinguish these two chips apart although the 5820k 1 by 2 or 3 fps in both cases it wasn't a difference I'd call significant as both processors got over 125 fps and Tomb Raider and around 100 fps in Crysis 3 so what's our conclusion for starters it's pretty clear that the extra cores you go 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 5820k to match the 4 gigahertz stock speed of the 6700 k other tests have suggested that skylake is still superior with respected instructions per clock or IPC meaning that the z170 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 PCI Express Lanes also don't forget that we're seeing newer features natively supported by the Zed 170 such as USB 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