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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

Will the new chipsets support Intel quick sync if not I'll probably do as some posted wait for Amazon prime and try the Devils canyon ,should be a good leap over my x58 950
 
colinmcr said:
I don't think you can go wrong buying the 5820K, what with DX12 supposed to utilise cores better. Its only another 4 weeks or so till supposed release can you wait and then see some real bench results and Win10 will be available also.
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Might be a stupid question but is the Haswell E CPU also DX 12 compatible then? I wasnt sure if this was an advantage that Skylake had or not.

I was thinking about Skylake but now I am wondering about going for an X99 board and a Haswell E instead either a 5930K or a 5960X. Skylake would be cheaper but if the performance of a 5930K would be better and would support things like DX 12 its quite tempting.
 
DX12 support in the context of that quote is just that DX12 allows game rendering to be more multi-threaded so having more cores could potentially provide extra benefit. Plus games in general are getting more multi-threaded due to the consoles 8 core APUs. No special support is necessary for that.
 
Boomstick777 said:
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.
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Any news on if Skylake will be soldered or use improved TIM? Any overclocking news on it at all?
 
BaronVonDuncs said:
Might be a stupid question but is the Haswell E CPU also DX 12 compatible then? I wasnt sure if this was an advantage that Skylake had or not.

I was thinking about Skylake but now I am wondering about going for an X99 board and a Haswell E instead either a 5930K or a 5960X. Skylake would be cheaper but if the performance of a 5930K would be better and would support things like DX 12 its quite tempting.
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AFAIK DX12 compatibility for CPUs only refers to the iGPU.
 
and x99 CPU's have no igpu, so its a bit of a moot point when talking about just the cpu and dx12.

BUT, if you have x99 and big cpu you are either going to have a good gpu allready that should be dx12 ready, or you just need the cpu rendering power for encoding or some other simulation work.

I'm still in the market for i7 6700k myself, under water using my i110GT :) AVX2 and the newer instruction sets I think will start helping more going forwards, and i have the upgrade ich to scratch now!

need to start seeing dual channel ddr4 kits soon as well! I suspect 16GB will be the sweet spot as a new build now, rather than 8GB ddr3 as it was until recently!


Dan
 
DanielSon said:
and x99 CPU's have no igpu, so its a bit of a moot point when talking about just the cpu and dx12.

BUT, if you have x99 and big cpu you are either going to have a good gpu allready that should be dx12 ready, or you just need the cpu rendering power for encoding or some other simulation work.

I'm still in the market for i7 6700k myself, under water using my i110GT :) AVX2 and the newer instruction sets I think will start helping more going forwards, and i have the upgrade ich to scratch now!

need to start seeing dual channel ddr4 kits soon as well! I suspect 16GB will be the sweet spot as a new build now, rather than 8GB ddr3 as it was until recently!


Dan
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I'm the same as you Dan, already ordered half of my components including a H100i GTX for the 6770k... The only thing I'm still not sure on is what speed I should be looking at for DDR4, as with DDR3 I would probably have went with 2 x 8GB 2133MHz... But with DDR4 I'm seeing numbers all over the place. Also Corsair and Crucial have some 2 x 8GB kits I've seen for sale.
 
SCOLANATOR said:
I'm the same as you Dan, already ordered half of my components including a H100i GTX for the 6770k... The only thing I'm still not sure on is what speed I should be looking at for DDR4, as with DDR3 I would probably have went with 2 x 8GB 2133MHz... But with DDR4 I'm seeing numbers all over the place. Also Corsair and Crucial have some 2 x 8GB kits I've seen for sale.
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DDR4 Isn't really needed for gaming atm. DDR3 will be fine for a while yet. No difference I can see tbh
 
Silent UK said:
I've waited a long time for Skylake as I'm currently using a Q9550. Looking at the I7 6700K. In real terms, what sort of gain should I be looking at? Since I'll also be changing to DDR4 (8-16GB) (from 4GB DDR3).
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Maybe ~75% faster clock-for-clock on average, with a much higher clock speed if you're overclocking. Only niche applications will benefit from DDR4 but obviously more RAM is useful too.

I assume you mostly do gaming? If so, what GPU do you have and do you have an SSD?
 
ltron said:
Also, Windows 10 is a free upgrade. This means many more people will be able to use the new DirectX version than in the past, when you had to pay for the privilege.
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Not really, DX11 launched with Windows 7 but was backported to Vista for free, DX11.1 launched with Windows 8 but was backported to Windows 7 for free.
 
DragonQ said:
Maybe ~75% faster clock-for-clock on average, with a much higher clock speed if you're overclocking. Only niche applications will benefit from DDR4 but obviously more RAM is useful too.

I assume you mostly do gaming? If so, what GPU do you have and do you have an SSD?
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Thanks for the reply.

Currently using a 670 and got a Intel SSD for about 5years ago. So I'm sure that's not the quickest and will need replacing along with everything else.

Looks like a very nice increase in that case then :cool:
 
i currently have a AMD 8350, was looking at the 4790k but i rather just go with skylake and also get some DDR4, cant wait to built new PC :)

current people on 4790k i dont see any benefit
 
Some EVGA Z170 boards have leaked:

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http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/evga-shows-off-z170-series-motherboards-ahead-of-intel-skylake-release/#/3

Hopefully the full range of Asus boards will leak soon :)
 
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