Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

Killer7xx · 28 Jul 2015 at 11:59

Skylake could be in short supply at launch. http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ssors-to-be-in-short-supply-initially-report/

Safe to say, it won't be a good time for a Skylake/Fury X build.

~Mike~ · 28 Jul 2015 at 12:08

I'm not surprised, although I'm thinking about getting Skylake I'm not in any hurry.

@setter yep the prices Gibbo posted the other day are much better than I was expecting.

Dave2150 · 28 Jul 2015 at 16:38

Killer7xx said:
Skylake could be in short supply at launch. http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ssors-to-be-in-short-supply-initially-report/

Safe to say, it won't be a good time for a Skylake/Fury X build.

I'd take that with a grain of salt. It's a Swedish retailer, I remember they were also very slow to get the 4790k in - OCUK had plenty of 4790k stock while the Swedish store had just preorders.

Dave2150 · 28 Jul 2015 at 16:47

pastymuncher said:
OCUK now has dual channel DDR4 kits although the kits for X99 would also work. See here.

Awesome prices there

I'll get the 32GB (2x16GB) kit for sure - lots of room for further expansion

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-447-CS

bowza · 28 Jul 2015 at 17:33

So as the times is close
Skylake i5 for single Gpu gaming setup be worth investing in, over the i7 version
with mild overclock on a mid range motherboard?

Bowza

Orangey · 28 Jul 2015 at 18:07

Dave2150 said:
I'd take that with a grain of salt. It's a Swedish retailer, I remember they were also very slow to get the 4790k in - OCUK had plenty of 4790k stock while the Swedish store had just preorders.

Well, they said they "polled" a bunch of Taiwanese "sources" too... whatever that means.

Why would Intel do a paper launch? And why is GamesCom suddenly the new E3... MS/Sony/Nintendo/et al all have bigger than expected presence there. It was a strange choice to launch Skylake to begin with but now something's definitely going on I think...

DmitryD · 29 Jul 2015 at 01:55

Yields can't possibly be that good to have a lot of high clocking parts at launch, it's amazing they are even launching them now.

Datass · 29 Jul 2015 at 02:45

DmitryD said:
Yields can't possibly be that good to have a lot of high clocking parts at launch, it's amazing they are even launching them now.

ikr? 14nm at 4-4.2 is pretty high right out the gate for a first gen. I'm worried by how much they've got left in them at them speeds. Seems like intel are pretty adamant to squeeze it inbetween the 5820 and 4790 which begs the question an OC'd 4790 could nullify any ipc improvement in overall performance.

Orangey · 29 Jul 2015 at 05:13

Skylake is technically 2nd gen for 14nm. Broadwell...

TNA · 29 Jul 2015 at 06:54

Martini1991 said:
No 6 core mainstream with Skylake will be severely disappointing.

My thoughts exactly. Not read the whole thread, but I think Intel have given zero reason for us Haswell users to upgrade.

I will wait at least for Cannonlake-E I think. At which point I can get me an 8 core CPU doubling the performance I have now

In the meantime for gaming what I got is more than enough

JamesGrant · 29 Jul 2015 at 10:11

Hi all,

New to the game here.

I'm considering a new build and Skylake is obviously on my radar.

I'm mainly going to be using it for photo editing, am I better off just buying a 5820K 6 core seeming as Skylake won't have 6 core any time soon?

Credo · 29 Jul 2015 at 13:35

JamesGrant said:
Hi all,

New to the game here.

I'm considering a new build and Skylake is obviously on my radar.

I'm mainly going to be using it for photo editing, am I better off just buying a 5820K 6 core seeming as Skylake won't have 6 core any time soon?

My situation too, not sure which way to jump, official benches will help I'm sure.

hedgey · 29 Jul 2015 at 16:26

if skylake can do 5-5.2ghz im in. else i'll wait.

Orangey · 29 Jul 2015 at 16:49

hedgey said:
if skylake can do 5-5.2ghz im in. else i'll wait.

If that was the case they wouldn't have dropped the stock clocks from DC.

Secret_Window · 29 Jul 2015 at 18:47

Is there any point in me upgrading to skylake? I fancy something new, but seems like the benefits would be small like Haswell and Ivybridge.

setter · 29 Jul 2015 at 18:53

Secret_Window said:
Is there any point in me upgrading to skylake? I fancy something new, but seems like the benefits would be small like Haswell and Ivybridge.

Whats your current setup?

Secret_Window · 29 Jul 2015 at 19:00

setter said:
Whats your current setup?

Sandy bridge 2500k
8gb ram

setter · 29 Jul 2015 at 19:07

Secret_Window said:
Sandy bridge 2500k
8gb ram

At a rough guess id say were looking at a 30% performance improvement over sandybridge. I didnt own sb myself but have been through ivybridge 3770k, and then haswell 4770k, (i do currently own a 4790k, but thats basically a speed binned 4770k). Usually a 10% improvement from one gen to the next. Id wait to see benchmarks/reviews first before making any decision, not long to go now.

Dave2150 · 29 Jul 2015 at 19:08

Secret_Window said:
Sandy bridge 2500k
8gb ram

TBH that's something only you can answer.

For myself, I'm still running a x58 I7 920 @ 3.6Ghz, from 2008. I'm upgrading mostly for the new technologies/IO (SATA3, U.2/M.2, USB3.1, PCI-E V3, UEFI PWM Fan control) and my recent GPU purchase is bottlenecked by my aging CPU.

I'll either get Skylake or X99, depending on the Skylake reviews next week.

If you don't need or know you won't use any of the features Z170 will give you that you don't currently have, and you're not noticing your GPU getting bottlenecked, then I'd stick with what you have.

Joe! · 29 Jul 2015 at 19:10

~Mike~ said:
@setter yep the prices Gibbo posted the other day are much better than I was expecting.

Can I ask where these prices were posted? I'm interested to see.