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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

JimboJet said:
Your 4690k is an excellent chip, cool it, overclock it. Most likely you wont notice an appreciable difference in games if you went to Skylake over say putting your funds towards a new graphics card. Based on past Intel releases, Skylake will be a small price increase over the current chips though expect some time for retailers to adjust to stable pricing after the initial early adopter premium.

My feeling is the 4690k is the new Q6600 chip and will last many yrs for ppl that don't succumb to the upgrade itch.
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He hasn't bought the 4690k yet - sounds like he's waiting for Skylake 6600k.
 
so, in short, if you have a 4790K you don't have any reason tu upgrade in the next 3-4 years as Intel adds with every new generations 3-5% performance...
 
NMBlack said:
It would be nice to think that a lack of cooler in the retail version would mean it goes on sale at a cheaper price (than it would if the cooler was included), but I suspect that's wishful thinking from me.....
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Would be nice if they spent the savings made by not having a HSF on using solder for the CPU heatsink...
 
I'd be interested in seeing a line of "watercooling only" CPUs that lacked the heat spreader, if only Intel would consider it. Water blocks will put a gentler, more symmetric loading onto the die than a heavy air cooler.
 
I remember non stock cooler, or stock big cooler?, in Gulftown times....I bought this crazy baby 980X and inside was big and noisy aircooler, but really much better than small classic box cooler :)
After I got AMD FX-8150 with allinone set as also good bonus.
 
Still rocking a P67 chipset (MSI p67a-gd53) and an i7 3770k :p :D. My motherboard is ancient! :eek:

Not sure when to upgrade. Skylake looks tempting but is there anything mind blowingly better around the corner or penned for 2016?

Might just wait until my motherboard dies :p
 
Jono8 said:
Still rocking a P67 chipset (MSI p67a-gd53) and an i7 3770k :p :D. My motherboard is ancient! :eek:

Not sure when to upgrade. Skylake looks tempting but is there anything mind blowingly better around the corner or penned for 2016?

Might just wait until my motherboard dies :p
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August: Skylake - possibly the first real performance uplift since Sandy

2016 Q1: Broadwell-E - rumoured heavily to be cancelled

2016 Q3: Zen - hopes & dreams

2016 Q3: Skylake refresh - see Devil's Canyon
 
Orangey said:
August: Skylake - possibly the first real performance uplift since Sandy

2016 Q1: Broadwell-E - rumoured heavily to be cancelled

2016 Q3: Zen - hopes & dreams

2016 Q3: Skylake refresh - see Devil's Canyon
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The problem is this is all fine and dandy but the only reason why gamers have been upgrading is due to single thread bottlenecks in games which is why people needed their 4.5GHZ Core i5 CPUs.

Core i7 CPUs don't show massive uplifts over Core i5 CPUs in most games either.

However, with DX12 being less bottlenecked by single thread performance,I can see anyone with a recent Core i7 not really needing an upgrade especially if its overclocked.
 
DX12 won't be a factor for at least 2 years. It takes ages for a new API to get momentum. DX10 had a total of like 1 game before DX11 rolled around.
 
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