Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

[Supernova]

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.

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?

 

[WingZero30]

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?

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 . 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

 

[FoxEye]

What are the chances, do you think, of this being a worthwhile upgrade from a 2500k?

 

[Dave2150]

What are the chances, do you think, of this being a worthwhile upgrade from a 2500k?

Pretty high chances this will smash a 2500k in every sense of the word.

 

[Jokester]

I hope they have made some serious ipc improvements becuase 95watt tdp is higher then Ivy Bridge.

Was thinking the same thing. I suspect though that the power is going to a bigger iGPU rather than better CPU performance.

 

[Morfinel]

I'll stick to my used refresh thank you very much, I hope AMD look at it and get out of their Trojan horse

 

[Evian]

Might upgrade from a 2500k to the 6700k if it's good enough.

 

[NMBlack]

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....

 

[P4Clock]

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 :

 

[David Bisset]

What are the chances, do you think, of this being a worthwhile upgrade from a 2500k?

In games? Unlikely to notice any difference at all I'd expect.

 

[DragonQ]

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.

It'll probably take about 2 years for games to start using DirectX 12's new features efficiently anyway.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

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 :

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.

 

[ubersonic]

I'm not sure to be happy or sad

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...

 

[FoxEye]

In games? Unlikely to notice any difference at all I'd expect.

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.

 

[Poneros]

Honestly, I wish I had went for the 2500K, I could've rocked that till 2017.

 

[HeX]

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!

 

[Supernova]

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 . 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

I see, that is probably quite good. I'd like to overclock my i7-860 but don't really have the time to get it stable. If I could find a good price for an i7-880 I'd buy that to bridge the gap!

 

[Craterloads]

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.

 

[Orangey]

Perhaps they had to push them hard to keep up with the clockspeed precedent they have set. Also the 14nm node is problematic.

 

[Martini1991]

It's the gpu that's counted in the tdp too