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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

I'm getting real antsy about wanting an upgrade. Still got an i7 965EE but I can't help but feel I should wait for Skylake-E.

Should be one heck of a jump!
 
Skylake-E will most likely be released in 2017 - that's a long ass wait guys :D

I'm personally going Skylake 6700k, along with 4x8GB DDR4, so that if I decide to go Skylake-E in 2 years, I can reuse my DDR4 in a quad channel setup.
 
I'm planning to upgrade CPU in the next few months (currently rocking an i5-3450) - If I had an approximate budget of £500.. Would it be worth going DDR4 with an i7-6600k? Or more worth it to salvage my current RAM with an i7-4790k?

Not entirely sure what to do at this point.
 
Rowlii said:
I'm planning to upgrade CPU in the next few months (currently rocking an i5-3450) - If I had an approximate budget of £500.. Would it be worth going DDR4 with an i7-6600k? Or more worth it to salvage my current RAM with an i7-4790k?

Not entirely sure what to do at this point.
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Personally wouldn't do either.

For similar money you could get a 5820K and a X99 Motherboard. Benefit from 50% more CPU i.e 2 extra Cores / Threads + Cache, without crappy TIM.
 
The last I checked, most LGA 2011-3 boards were in excess of £200, is that not the case anymore?

That'd take my spending up to £500, plus however much RAM is.
 
Dave2150 said:
Skylake-E will most likely be released in 2017 - that's a long ass wait guys :D
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I read a rumour that Broadwell-E has been canned and Skylake-E moved forward to Q3 2016; how accurate that is remains to be seen, but it would make a lot of sense.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Personally wouldn't do either.

For similar money you could get a 5820K and a X99 Motherboard. Benefit from 50% more CPU i.e 2 extra Cores / Threads + Cache, without crappy TIM.
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Completely depends on the workload of the machine. No point having 2 extra cores if they will never be used etc.

Skylake could/should be faster than Haswell for lightly threaded apps such as games, due to the increased IPC and increased clockspeeds (compared to 5820k).
 
Dave2150 said:
Completely depends on the workload of the machine. No point having 2 extra cores if they will never be used etc.

Skylake could/should be faster than Haswell for lightly threaded apps such as games, due to the increased IPC and increased clockspeeds (compared to 5820k).
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Early benchmarks have shown the 5820K up there with 6700K in gaming at stock.

Plus the 5820K overclocks, a lot. Plus 2 extra cores / threads more cache and is soldered. I don't see the appeal of a similar priced chip with less of everything and poor TIM.

Each to their own, that's just my opinion. Skylake -E will be more appealing to me.
 
Pricewise I can't see there will be much difference between a 5820k/board and ram and the Skylake 6700k/board and Ram. I'm stuck between a rock and a hardplace on upgrading the 2500k I have... 5820X will prob be better with crossfire..But I only game so wondering if the extra cores will just be a waste for a few years until DX12 beds in..
 
They will probably differentiate on features like some fancy multimedia gubbins, wireless doodads or somesuch... while charging the same as a 5820K. >:O
 
I was intending to go mITX with a 6700K but if the current prices and speed proves to be true that would be a bit silly. I may just have to do mATX and a 5820 instead.
 
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