Out of the loop, what's the deal with CPUs?

[MooMoo444]

I'm a little behind with CPU releases. Not sure where the performance currently lies.

I have a 4770k running at a reasonably mild OC of 4.2, and it serves me well, does everything I need to. Curiousity got the better of me though and I was pricing up a new Skylake PC (which seems to be ridiculously expensive I might add), with no intention to buy.

However, I also noticed on the MM that 3770k-ish and 4770k-ish CPUs seem to be holding their value exceptionally well, still commanding upwards of £200 in some scenarios, which is pretty spectacular for CPU's that are 3 or more years old now.

Is Skylake a flop or what? Are intel holding back the performance and sandbagging?

 

[setter]

Skylake just doesn't offer that much of an upgrade over a 4770/4790k. Particularly when you consider its price.

 

[malachi]

Skylake is too expensive for what is it. That's all you need to know.

 

[spot35]

Yep. Far too expensive for what you get and a 5820 is a much better proposition for a similar price.

 

[Caracus2k]

Stick with what you have. Intel are not necessarily holding things up, but I'm sure the lack of competition doesn't help, two things have happened in the past 5 years or so....

1) processor power draw has become more relevant for most cases then overall power since pretty much any cpu is powerfull enough now for general use and mobile computing devices is the growth market. The growth in igpu power mirrors the desire for mobile 'system on a chip' low power solutions that can cope with general use.

2) physics is just getting in the way. The shrinks in the manufacturing process are not yielding the gains of yesteryear. Maximum cpu speeds have actually regressed somewhat since the 2700k and the ipc gains have not done that much to offset this for a lot of general use scenario's

 

[MooMoo444]

Oh I wasn't planning an upgrade, like I said in OP, was just curious really since the market doesn't seem to have left Haswell behind like I was expecting it to.

 

[Caracus2k]

Oh I wasn't planning an upgrade, like I said in OP, was just curious really since the market doesn't seem to have left Haswell behind like I was expecting it to.

It all starts with pricing up bundles for 'fun' the next thing you know you've come and clicked order and are wondering how your going perhaps going to explain this to the other half if your anything like me!

 

[Caracus2k]

Consumer CPU wise not that much has changed that much for most usage scenarios since sandybridge and to a certain extent even nehalem!

 

[Montala]

It all starts with pricing up bundles for 'fun' the next thing you know you've come and clicked order and are wondering how your going perhaps going to explain this to the other half if your anything like me!

How true!... I am just about to 'upgrade' from an i5 2500K to a Skylake i5 6600K... but will I actually notice any 'improvement', I wonder?

 

[kayomani]

I think you will, its 25% faster at a rough guess. I benched my 920 upgrade at 60% faster.

 

[scotslad]

I have just bought/ordered all my stuff for my new build days ago, which includes the skylake i7 6700K.

I currently have the 3rd Generation i7 3770K in this machine and its served me fine but to be honest I thought this is the time to move up to 6th Generation and move forward, might not look very much forward when looking at benchmarks and things or prices etc (Just yet though).

But its really when you see all the brand new advances that are with the skylake cpu's and the motherboards that they require that I can see massive differences.

I have been watching several excellent videos on the skylake i7 6700K like I'm getting and motherboards similar to mines but not just as good spec and I must say that it looks like its defo a thing of the future, well for me anyway.

I wanted to jump generations, I also needed some parts too (for my current system), so the main thing for me was to think should I sit here and mess about with this current 2012 build system or move on to a 2015/16+ system gen 6 and just go for it and the answer was yes, just as the presenters of most of those videos say too.

But as others have said in this thread, if one is happy with ones system as it is then dont change, I was getting rather bored with mines though and wanted a whole new thing, I just hope I done the right thing, lol.

This Gen 3 I have just now needs a little work done, so it was a choice between spending on that or just getting something new altogether new, and I chose new over old so that I should hopefully be future proof for at least the next 3 years maybe, we shall see

P.s, lots of those videos I watched showed overclocking the i7 6700K's and they done extremely well from what I seen, nice and nice n cool too with simple sealed single rad systems etc, I will be happy if I get same with mines, some of the guys were clocking them at 5gz for fun, I dont know how much higher they could go though, no doubt way higher, its very very early days with the Gen 6 i7's. Just my 2p's worth.