It's just as Boomstick777 stated, purely for gaming then no; get a better GPU or bigger SSD to hold more games. Though if you really can't assuage the upgrade itch then X99 is most likely way to go for all the extra stuff you get vs the outlay.
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pretty much except for m.2 pci-e SSD;s they are getting very fast and prices are reasonable.
skylake is without doubt the most reasonable upgrade from sandy (compared to ivy/haswell/broadwell) it has the most tech improvements but yes ultimately an SSD and sandybridge on a Z77 motherboard is more than enough for general use and gaming.
We can all agree for gaming alone it is a waste of money upgrading.
This pretty much sums it up for me personally.
The chip itself was a monster, its the bells and whistles of the mainboard that force you to upgrade.
Saying that my lovely other half has ones of these with a 770, she's playing the new Witcher as we speak with no problems at all!
A X99 system with a 5820K will net you more performance, 2 extra cores / threads. DDR4 support and M.2 etc. Newer chipset.
Yes. I've got that chip in my 2nd machine and it's a superstar.
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Yes. Although I'm still getting a 6700K. The 2700K is needed elsewhere!
But yes, cracking CPU nonetheless.
But yes, cracking CPU nonetheless.
Those GTA V numbers look wrong. For some reason a stock 6600K beats a stock 4790K.
Plus it's not hard to get GTA V to run really well on slightly lower than max settings. I very rarely drop below 60fps @ 1440p with a 4.5Ghz 2550K and Titan.
What's wrong with expecting both new features and a nice jump in performance?
I guess I'm just lucky that the Core i7-920 had just been released when I was putting my first build together.
You can get a 2600k to 4.6ghz quite easily. It's not worth the upgrade considering how much it will cost.
Wait for the next generation to come out. You never know, AMD might take the crown back
I'd like to see a comparison which includes 5820k as well though.
Wait for the next generation to come out. You never know, AMD might take the crown back
I'd like to see a comparison which includes 5820k as well though.
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Yes that is more than enough but how the market is going with VR, Ray Tracing and whether or not that will affect things in the future is still unknown. But an i7 Sandy Overclocked will be enough, not so much an i5 now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=23&v=DfyR8qF_zK4
Where does the 25-30% increase in GTA V come from? Is that 4K or multi monitor/multi gpu or something? I did want to do a full upgrade for Christmas but it’s just not worth it from anything I’ve seen so far. In any of the benches I’ve seen the difference between i7-2600 and i7-6700 in GTA V is around 7% max and that's with the 2600 at stock (and as low as 1% with some gpus/resolutions).
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/287?vs=1543
7% is not insignificant but it’s hardly worth a full mobo + cpu + everything else upgrade for. Surely for most gamers the money would be better spent on buying the best gpu you can afford instead?
i5 is still fine - he only needed the i7 for an extra monitor running twitch or recording with obs.
The 25% comes from this article. But the numbers for gta v are all over he place.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review
Yea, it seems the i7 is pulling ahead in some recent games. If I disable HT on my 2600k now it's noticeably slower in some games made within the last year or two.
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They're all at 4.4GHz
Ops nvm haha