Hmmm just a downclocked Titan XP, but VRAM type. I wonder how much is gonna be.. :[

I am hoping its still GDDR5X and not actual GDDR5. I mean that would be pretty wtf. 1080 has GDDR5X but not the TI version?

But yea, I think this all points to Pascal getting a shorter cycle than Maxwell

GOOD NEWS!!! I'M GETTING A NEW PC!!!!


because this one is obviously utter shit now...

Loll obviously xD

Got my new replacement GPU today. Plugged it in, booted up, started RL, PC went out. So now I can deduce that at least the PCIe slot is busted and if I'm really unlucky the new 980ti as well. We'll see in the coming days when I built a new one and plug it in there.

I might need some advice though. My biggest question currently is 6700k or 6800k.

Lmao literally shit xD

Essh, that sounds unfortunate.

6800k would be good for gamings coming in the future since more games are becoming multithreaded. But, it also costs more and I would say you can benefit more by saving the money and spending it else where. I will personally upgrade to the 2011 chipsets when I want to get 8 core or higher since that should really show the benefits of havng the cores. But thats why I am waiting until Zen to see if they can convince Intel to finally lower the prices. 

With that being said though, 2011 at least has options of adding 8/10 core CPUs where as the other one doesn't. So it depends on how much you care about that as well.

Good luck with ur PC though, it will be rape either way @_@

Money isn't really a big issue. My biggest fear is though that spending double for a CPU that isn't faster despite having more cores but in turn low clock. My intuition tells me that a 4.2GHz 4 core is faster in gaming than a 6 or 8 core at 3.6 GHz. I'm not so much into overclocking that I wouldn't touch it.

Can I assume that a 6 core CPU will only use 4 cores on a game and use the other two for multitasking if the game only supports 4? Or will it somehow spread everything over all cores? Because currently I have the problem that whenever I play and then turn on Twitch or Youtube the game will start to stutter even if the it's not at 100%. And I doubt that's a problem with the GPU since I can trace all of the stutter in gaming back to the CPU.

Thats true but my thing is that I think game developers will go for either 4 cores or 8 cores as far as future CPUs go. Idk if having a 6 core will benefit much either way. Like we look at say Zen, its coming out with an 8 core CPU and most likely, future consoles will also continue to have 8 core CPUs or more. But we look at current games for PCs, most of them optimized for quad cores. So I feel like the next huge step will be 8 cores for games and etc instead of 6 if that makes any sense. I feel like a 6 core, while it will be beneficial to those games that supports it wont be as beneficial in the long run as a 8 core while not giving out the performance/price as a quad. So I would either get a 4 or a 8.

4 Cores will be faster than 6 or 8 at the ghz you stated certainly but I look for which one will benefit me in the future. As dx12/vulkan allows more games to be multi-threaded, those extra CPU cores should get utilized. But I doubt we will really see them actually do some real work until the next gen consoles come out cause the current CPUs (including the upgraded versions) those got are laughable. Next gen, provided the Zen isn't nonsense, I can see consoles having CPUs that are decent so more cores might make a difference then.

So the question is, will you upgrade your CPU/mobo/ram in the next 5 or so years? If you are planning to upgrade all 3, get an i7 6700k and savez ur moneys, if not, go with the 6 or 8 core.

I never change my Mobo mid PC gen. If I change mobo I'll get a new PC altogether, much like I'm doing now.
I think I can afford a 6900k but I don't want to spend triple the money for 5% more power. I need another opinion on this.

Depending on how gaming requirements develop I'm not seeing my new build hold longer than 3 years. So I might be fine with a 6700k.