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My old chip..........

Andy7

Andy7

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I have a 2600k @ 4.8Ghz. My question is: Would the new Skylake chips blow this out of the water big time so I could see a massive difference in gaming?
 
Best thing to do is go and read a whole bunch of the reviews online.

My take is that there will be a difference in most games yes. Very small to nothing in some games and quite a bit in others.

Blown out the water. Not so sure.

Technically the gaming landscape hasnt changed yet. There is not a single DX12 game out. So everything in the world is as it was pre Skylake boomshell.

I'm personally A) Sticking with my 3570k and B) Waiting to see what impact DX12 is going to have before determining any upgrades.
 
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Would the new Skylake chips blow this out of the water big time so I could see a massive difference in gaming?
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No not at all.

The best upgrade for gaming would be either a better graphics card depending what one you already have, or adding a second one in sli/xfire.

Your cpu running at 4.8ghz is unlikely to be a bottleneck and therefore won't really need upgrading yet.

I'd say you've got at least another 12 months of life out of it.
 
I had a good read around and it looks like ill be 2500k for life at this rate....

Its not justifiable for such a complete mobo/ram/cpu swap.
 
I went from an i5 760@4ghz > i7 [email protected]. There is a big difference in the one game I am playing (GTA5) with my 780Ti - before when there was action it would dip to 30/40/50 fps. Now it pretty much is always locked at 60
I also did it to get SATAIII instead of being stuck on II and USB3. It will have cost me ~£100 in total once I have sold my old parts. Havent had a new 'pc' in about 5 years so its about time. I couldnt justify new skylake or x99 parts
 
Nice viceo comparison not to huge of a difference , might as well save up for 1440p 144 hz monitor for now, will be even less of a difference .

talking about 1440 the guy should have made 1440 comparison
 
Maybe he should have compared a more CPU intensive game like an RTS. Would be more interesting to see 2600k vs 4790k vs 6700k at their max overclocks on an identical system playing something like Startcraft 2 with a large map on 8 player.
 
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