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Haswell, Ivybridge or Skylake ?

thedoc46

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For a new build, just for the occasional gaming at 1900x1200 with everything on, and stutter free.. Like maybe 3 or so hrs a week. The rest, just online. (getting old !!!)

Not really going to bother overclocking TBH. Maybe I'll dabble a little with it.. Prefer to not hear the sound of fans trying to cool down hardware that's working overtime.... Again, prefer not to have the hassle..

But i'd like to see this hardware refresh last me a good couple of yrs, trouble free. So going to get a decent GPU and decent CPU.....

Currently on a i7 2600k and 7950GPU, which i'm handing down to my kid.

I presume skylake is the latest.... and i should get the 6700k one....

I'll also take a recommendation for a new mobo, if that's allowed in thread ?
 
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In before everyone else says it....

Absolutely no need to upgrade from a 2600k for what you want to do. Especially if you do overclock the 2600k, which is very easy.

A new GPU would definitley be in order however.
 
Agree as above no need to upgrade. I would bother with over clocking as it will give you boost in performance and save you money on upgrade that you dont really need to be honest. Unless you have money and just want a upgrade you can, but you wont see a huge difference.
 
6 core at £299 vs a quad at £319, is that even a choice?

Skylake may be newer but there will be no worthwhile upgrade within the lifetime of the socket, while x99 has a worthwhile upgrade to 8 core available out now already!

Motherbaords are tiny bit pricier on the x99 side of things but you cant go wrong with even the lower end x99 mobos as they are all quality.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
6 core at £299 vs a quad at £319, is that even a choice?
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If the OP doesn't mind dipping into a bit of overclocking to boost the 6 core cpu's single core performance, indeed x99 looks like a seriously good option. The 6700k remains compelling with it's high per core stock clocks, although it seems somewhat overpriced at the moment?
 
The gains to be had on single core performance by choosing 6700k wont be that much for OP as i doubt he will be using a powerhouse GPU set up considering he is a casual gamer. Unless the game is terribly codded i doubt he will struggle at even stock clocks with the 5820k. If the game is only 1 or 2 threads, then it is likely not intensive enough to need what skylake can provide over x99 in low threaded performance. A small overclock is easily achievable just by following one of the guides in the Overclocking section, no need to faff about with a conservative clock, just 10 mins to set up the settings and test by using as you would normally. Noise is almost fully up to what heatsink is used, so grab a bing ol case and a big ol chunk of metal and you are sorted in terms of cooling/noise, overclock or not.

x99 offers already offers a nice upgrade option if he feels the need to go for more power down the line, where as i doubt we will see anything more than a quad core released that can fit onto current skylake motherboards and i am even more doubtful of anything greater than a 15% clock for clock performance boost.
 
spend the money on a gpu and get that 2600k to 4.3 ghz + overclock and you are good to go
 
bfar said:
If the OP doesn't mind dipping into a bit of overclocking to boost the 6 core cpu's single core performance, indeed x99 looks like a seriously good option. The 6700k remains compelling with it's high per core stock clocks, although it seems somewhat overpriced at the moment?
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Bfar do you have cinebench R15 bud? if so would you be able to run the single thread test on there? i'll do the same and see what the result is.

I honestly don't think there's going to be a difference at all really, i think the 5820K turbos to 3.9 and the 6700K to 4.2?

Edit- Forgive me Bfar i totally forgot you have the 2500K, for some reason i thought you'd upgraded to the 6700K lol, i'm tired it seems.
 
BornEvil said:
You would be fine m8, z77 has PCI-e 3.0 but your CPU will only support 2.0.

No biggie though.
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What sort of performance hit, would one expect then? I may reevaluate my needs here, since my kid is only 9 and only plays Minecraft and Roboblox, so i could just spend the money here on a top notch GPU for myself instead, better cooling (as i hate fan noise) and build him something cheap and cheerful.

PS i told the missus i'd have to spend 1k on this little project. :) (mobo, mem, GPU & CPU) everything else is already accounted for. He currently has an old laptop of mine, and apparently its laggy ! lol I did give his older bro' my other gaming machine last yr, which was a basic mirror of what i'm running now... Just lost interest in gaming, and never ever used the 2nd gaming machine that was upstairs.. So gave it to him last christmas.
 
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No noticeable hit at all. I ran a 980 at PCI-e 2.0 for a while, and the only difference is a few less 3dmark points.

I think a 2600k is overkill for a 9 year old, but your kid might have done something good to deserve it. Depends how much you love him :D
 
Guys... he's handing his PC down to his kid... let him upgrade :p.

Perhaps you might be better off dropping down to an i5?
 
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