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POLL: Will you be moving from Haswell to Skylake?

BaronVonDuncs said:
...I was thinking about getting a 1TB SSD to put my Steam Library on but I am not convinced it would make much difference aside from having a few games boot up a little faster.
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It won't make any difference outside of loading times, and 1TB is not an economical size, imho. On the basis you can't play all your games at the same time, why not just tell Steam it has 2 library folders (e.g. one on a 250gb ssd, and one on a bit hdd) and move your games-of-the-month between them? :)

(That said, if you have games that take multiple-minutes to load from a hdd, going solid state is such a blessed relief! Heavily modded Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program really benefit from faster storage.)
 
eddiew said:
It won't make any difference outside of loading times, and 1TB is not an economical size, imho. On the basis you can't play all your games at the same time, why not just tell Steam it has 2 library folders (e.g. one on a 250gb ssd, and one on a bit hdd) and move your games-of-the-month between them? :)

(That said, if you have games that take multiple-minutes to load from a hdd, going solid state is such a blessed relief! Heavily modded Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program really benefit from faster storage.)
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Thanks. Unfortunately that advice came too late as I already ordered the 1TB drive. But thanks for offering it anyway.
 
if they clock well and are priced ok....i most likely will go skylake.... got a very good offer on my own set-up so i let go.....

in the market again for nice shiny new things!
 
Don't need it, the performance difference just isnt enough. It's a shame technology doesn't move quite as quickly as it used to.
 
Don't plan on changing as the Haswell series is sufficient enough for my needs. However, if i come across a worthwhile price then maybe.
 
Highlands said:
I'm about to purchase the 5930k, is it worth holding off for a month or two?
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I dunno ...I sold my x99 combo and 5930k as apart from encoding and rendering I noticed nothing in the stuff I do...

I'm now on a 4690k @ 4.2ghz 16gb ddr3 combo which cost me £190

DDR 4 when I benched offered nothing tbh...

I'm interested in cheap but spunky performance....it's more fun...:p

I've had top end stuff and it's just boring and expensive....when I can have the same performance in games for a 1/4 of the price it's more fun...


Plus dx 12 scales badly on anything above 4 cores
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8962/the-directx-12-performance-preview-amd-nvidia-star-swarm/4

Unless you are rendering etc...it's pretty pointless...

DDR 4 sounds cool...but the the latency currently means dilly squat against tight DDR 3
 
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easyrider said:
I dunno ...I sold my x99 combo and 5930k as apart from encoding and rendering I noticed nothing in the stuff I do...

I'm now on a 4690k @ 4.2ghz 16gb ddr3 combo which cost me £190

DDR 4 when I benched offered nothing tbh...

I'm interested in cheap but spunky performance....it's more fun...:p

I've had top end stuff and it's just boring and expensive....when I can have the same performance in games for a 1/4 of the price it's more fun...


Plus dx 12 scales badly on anything above 4 cores
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8962/the-directx-12-performance-preview-amd-nvidia-star-swarm/4

Unless you are rendering etc...it's pretty pointless...

DDR 4 sounds cool...but the the latency currently means dilly squat against tight DDR 3
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I might just bite the bullet then, I'm sure the 5930k more than enough processing power, saves the wait too. Thanks!
 
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