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Haswell to Skylake, would it be silly?

On Xpoint I'd wait until it's established and shown to be of tangible benefit before letting it influence a purchase decision. It's likely to empty the safety deposit box I am sure.
 
Thanks guys I got the message loud and clear!

I'm sticking with Haswell and ploughed the money in to 2 x Toshiba X300 6TB 128MB Cache Hard Disk Drive 6Gb/s 7200RPM, I was running out of room on my 3TB's and looked to be the best for the money.

Looking forward to the big upgrade Monday :)
 
pumaz said:
Thanks guys I got the message loud and clear!

I'm sticking with Haswell and ploughed the money in to 2 x Toshiba X300 6TB 128MB Cache Hard Disk Drive 6Gb/s 7200RPM, I was running out of room on my 3TB's and looked to be the best for the money.

Looking forward to the big upgrade Monday :)
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You won't be sorry with those drives. I've got one as well, only had one issue after the first installation, it basically lost all partitions so had to recover them. Nothing like this happened again and it's been quite a while. For size, speed and cost those drives are pretty much unbeatable.
 
pumaz said:
Thanks guys I got the message loud and clear!
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so Im not getting your CPU for £30 then? :(

yea best keeping what you have and adding to it. Im the same with my 4770k system I really don't see the point in dropping any cash on a newer socket yet theirs still life in my system and ~I dont think I would benefit from upgrading.

hoping to upgrade the GPU soon after that ill be happy
 
I am on a z87 Hero VI with a 4790K, Skylake tempts me a wee bit also (so does x99 but can't justify it to myself).

Had my 4790 overclocked to 4.7 but was proving to be ever so slightly unstable, so just knocked it back to stock. Difficult to notice any real world differences tbh. I am however considering delidding and then going for 4.7, 4.8ish again, because why not lol.
 
Vanilla said:
If I may hijack this thread rather than starting a new one:

Current: Intel i7 2600k
Thinking of: i5 6600k or i7 6700k

Good upgrade?
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Depends your budget and graphic card.

Personally I am side/up-grading from the 4930K @4.5 to 6700K (and how much OC i drop on it), because except Crysis 3 and Aces of the Singularity, no other game is using all the cores/threads.
All games stick to 1-2 core/thread at 90-100% and the rest are asleep.

That includes not only up to DX11 games, but also DX12 games.
Like TW Warhammer, which is running on thread 12 at 100% and barely any other thread or core is working more than 5%.
(did a test and limited the cores of the CPU to 4, and still last thread (8) was running at 100%)


And since my brother had it's ancient MB burned (with FX6100), I gave him the 4930K and bought for me an Asrock Formula OC, a boxed 6700K, with good 3600mhz CL15 RAM.
Even I, couldn't justify the B-E or H-E X99 CPUs. Their IPCs are not strong enough compared to the Skylake, and the latter overclocks much better.

I was waiting for Zen however, going to pass and wait until Zen+
 
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Vanilla said:
If I may hijack this thread rather than starting a new one:

Current: Intel i7 2600k
Thinking of: i5 6600k or i7 6700k

Good upgrade?
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As previously mentioned, certainly not at this point in time.

If you're going to do that, wait till Z270 motherboards and Kaby Lake. This wait is only 3 months, or slightly less.

Also going from an i7 to an i5 isn't a good idea.

You'd want to go for the i7 7700k, or maybe the next i7 down, for a true decent upgrade.
 
AllBodies said:
As previously mentioned, certainly not at this point in time.

If you're going to do that, wait till Z270 motherboards and Kaby Lake. This wait is only 3 months, or slightly less.

Also going from an i7 to an i5 isn't a good idea.

You'd want to go for the i7 7700k, or maybe the next i7 down, for a true decent upgrade.
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Thread hijack, 3 months or less is that quite accurate?
I only ask cause I'm in the very early buying stages of building an itx system. I've only bought the case. So I can easily wait till then.
 
7700K will come out Q1 2017 and is compatible with Z170 motherboards

Z270 motherboards will come out that time also but not compatible with previous CPUs.

However please note. If you do not plan to use Windows 10 with Kaby Lake, stick to Skylake.
At best it will run probably with issues, at worst not run at all.
(Same applies to AMD Zen)
 
There are so many other things you can upgrade that are (a) cheaper, (b) better value for money, and (c) more effective. GPU, SSD, monitor, keyboard, mouse...
 
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