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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

MSTRBKR said:
Is your Q9650 overclocked? If stock, it's similar to my i7 860 and I feel like it's bottlenecking my R9 290 in Watch Dogs (I have to play it on high with AA turned down). Do you really think you can get 2 more years from it?
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My Q9650 is overclocked to 4Ghz. I will try to overclock it further to 4.2Ghz now that I got new Superflower PSU. Although FSB is major bottleneck but I still get good frames on my current 7950 which I am gonna sell.

I don't game as much, only on weekends. I have been on 775 for the past 5 years :p. So 2 more years should be okay and I only do major upgrades to last me 5-7 years. So Skylake-E would nicely fall in this category :)
 
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As resisting DC for Broadwell as an upgrade on my Phenom system hasn't worked out as I hoped, I'm actually quite glad that the Skylake launch is closer than expected. Even if it's only 5-10% better than Haswell or 2500k, it'll still be a significant improvement over what I'm currently running....
 
2500k is still owning game's why are we all on the lets buy a new CPU train. how about we show intel a thing or two and say if prices keep going up they can kiss are bums :
 
WingZero30 said:
Well I will be going straight for Skylake-E knowing I would have a chip with full features and more cores.

I am currently on Q9650 and just bought GTX 970 reference card. I know my setup will be bottlenecking my gpu but I will be moving to Windows 10 in future. So I can still get 2 more years out of my setup and with the help of DX12 it should enable my current setup to play future DX12 games smoothly hopefully.
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It'll probably take about 2 years for games to start using DirectX 12's new features efficiently anyway.
 
P4Clock said:
2500k is still owning game's why are we all on the lets buy a new CPU train. how about we show intel a thing or two and say if prices keep going up they can kiss are bums :
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PC PEPs like shinny things. Still rocking a i7 920! Might upgrade but not really in a rush given that gaming is pretty static at the mo and not really requiring anything crazy specced.
 
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I'm not sure to be happy or sad :confused:

Happy: New CPUs look great, if the rumours of these being tick and tock above Haswell are true then we can expect Haswell to Skylake to be a first gen i7 to third gen i7 grade jump. Excellent for the consumer especially if they hold the prices.

Sad: If the above does turn out to be true, then it's checkmate for AMD with the exception of APUs...
 
David Bisset said:
In games? Unlikely to notice any difference at all I'd expect.
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Well, there are some demanding indie games which only care about single core performance, like Dwarf Fortress. If Skylake is a nice bump in terms of IPC, or boosts single core perf in other ways, then it would be a nice upgrade for me.
 
Can't say i'll be rushing to upgrade my 2600K @ 4.4 any time soon either... it's been ridiculously good value for money!
 
Surprised TDP is still so high for a 14nm part, 2500k / 2600k are 95w TDP on 32nm and heck even i7 860 is a 95w TDP on 45nm 6 years ago, what gives?

3 x smaller yet same TDP and i'm assuming performance isn't 3 x as good? or is it.
 
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