Buyers remorse already

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On Friday I ordered a i5 6600k, DDR4 and a Gigabyte ultra gaming mobo to be delivered Tuesday. Problem is I'm already having buyers remorse.

I'm just worried that I'm chucking £450 on something that I will barely notice the difference on in games that I play like Cities: skylines, Rome: TW2 and FSX.

Dont know if I'm better off waiting for Kabylake and the new chipset or even Cannonlake instead. My 2500k has had a new cooler and is going along nicely at 4.4Ghz. Still playing pretty much everything very decently.

Any advice or should I just ignore the feelings and go with it?

 

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Will help fsx for sure

Will it help with using plenty of addons, like scenery, weather and textures?

 

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Thanks guys.

I have cancelled the order. Too much money for minimal gain for 1080p gaming. I'll definitely upgrade to either Kaby or cannon lake though and then swap my 970 for a 1080Ti when it's out. That will be a banging gaming rig.

Any of you fine people have any idea of what will be out first, cannonlake or the 1080Ti?

 

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Kaby Lake is up next, in late 2016 or early 2017. Don't expect Cannonlake until late 2017 at the earliest, unless AMD's Zen puts enough pressure on Intel to speed up its delivery. The only real benefits Kaby Lake has are full 10-bit HEVC decoding and native USB 3.1 (10 Gb/s). Unless you're building an HTPC there really won't be any point in Kaby Lake unless they somehow manage to get higher clock speeds on 14 nm.

At 1080p, I see no reason to move beyond Nehalem, let alone Sandy Bridge. At some point, once my study is refurbished, I plan on building an entirely new system for 1440p gaming. New monitor, new quieter case, new NVMe M.2 SSD, new everything except keyboard and mouse I suspect. If I wasn't going up in resolution though, I wouldn't bother.

This is the thing. I am eventually moving up from 1080p to 4K when the 1080Ti is out, so I think I will really need to upgrade then. Can't stay on lowly 1080p for ever.

 

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Just curious but do you actually see a difference between a game running at 1080p and 4k, that isn't down to monitor differences.?
Apart from performance differences that is.
I'm running at 1440p worth my 27" monitor, but that is more down to the screen size as such.

Yes most definitely for me. I think people who can't tell the difference genuinely have poor eyesight.

 

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Moore's law will apparently end by 2022 with 5nm technology. It doesn't really surprise me that it's slowing down already.