When is the perfect time to rebuild my rig

[ryccoh]

Hi guys I'm running a SB build and getting the itch to completely rebuild my gaming/editing rig.

I don't have much time to read in-depth anandtech articles anymore so I figured I'd just get help.

Mostly I wanna upgrade when PCI-express SSDs become the norm I know they're already out there but they don't seem to be working flawlessly for people. Do Skylake chips and modern motherboards have enough bandwidth to handle a high end GPU and PCI-E SSD nowadays or should I wait another generation.

In terms of GPU that's easy I'm getting the new 1080.

I'm also wondering if I should get an i7 or go with a hexacore (I'm not too familar with the new Intel naming anymore). I noticed when people went with too high end hardware like hexacore chips and on board SSDs they have long boot times and sometimes various issues.

If I go with an i7 and regular SSD I know it'll be a flawless speedy system but I'm tempted to try to push for more performance this time..

 

[Ken g6]

Bandwidth for PCIe? Sure. The problem seems to be latency, which is better on SATA. Could you please answer the ten questions in one of the stickied threads?

 

[Ketchup]

From what I undetstand, you are going to see very nice performance in sustained reads/writes on PCIe. But, as Ken g6 pointed out, those numbers don't matter on a gaming rig running Windows. You want low latency for good random performance, for which SATA is still the way to go.