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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

I'll likely stick on 4790k and the board in sig, (provided nothing goes wrong). Plough the money into a gpu upgrade instead.
 
setter said:
I'll likely stick on 4790k and the board in sig, (provided nothing goes wrong). Plough the money into a gpu upgrade instead.
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Same here, got a 4790K on order after seeing that nothing really better is coming on Broadwell or Skylake. Don't fancy having to change mobo / memory for Skylake either, especially for such a small increase in performance.

Temps @ stock on the 4790K should be better than my 4770K and performance will be enough. I'll take another look in 2016 when AMD and Intel hopefully get out something more exciting.
 
ALXAndy said:
/jams his tongue firmly in his cheek.

Oh stop moaning. Just buy a new motherboard you tight git.

/removes tongue from cheek.

Oh goody. Another new socket, another new board, and 5-10% gains over the last.

*yawn*
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Hi Andy, I have no intention of moving anyway. I skipped Sandy and Ivy and the way Intel keeps giving crappy increases will skip the next couple of gen's too. I can't see anything that is going to force me to upgrade for the next couple of years at least and Intel's current prices are disgusting, so these when they launch are going to be even worse. I am actually hoping that AMD get their fingers out of their backside and bring out something worth buying in the next year or two. I have fond memories of AMD as they were the first cpu's I used when started building pc's many years ago. I still have a trusty socket 754 system here that I use for my weather station and old games.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Same here, got a 4790K on order after seeing that nothing really better is coming on Broadwell or Skylake. Don't fancy having to change mobo / memory for Skylake either, especially for such a small increase in performance.

Temps @ stock on the 4790K should be better than my 4770K and performance will be enough. I'll take another look in 2016 when AMD and Intel hopefully get out something more exciting.
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If you already have a 4770k, I wouldn't advise buying a 4790k. They don't run any cooler at idle or load at stock or clocked. I've owned one 4770k and x2 4790k's, both the DC chips were much hotter than the 4770k. The TIM is still the same stuff they've always used. The whole new next gen polymer stuff is basically nonsense.
 
So it seems the upcoming Broadwells will be inferior to the likes of the i7-4970k, a 4770k is still better atm. We'll need real world benchmarks when these are released. Otherwise, I'm just interested to see how these shake up the pricing of current chips. Worst case scenario, they increase the price of 4770k/4790k to make room for these ones. Or we can hope the prices go down. 4790k prices have been on the rise for a while, which is depressing. Skylake will definitely do something interesting to prices, they'll try to make them more desirable to buy, so pricing needs to be on point.
 
Shall have to keep an eye on the overclocking results for these lil guys - feels like the 6700k really should have decent potential, what with 4.0/4.2 base settings. If they're comfortable around 4.8, the compound 10%s from three generations since Sandybridge might just be enough to make it worthwhile moving over...

Is there any potential for DDR4 bringing 16GB dimms to the market? I'd love to have a two-slot 32GB memory option, would open the way for an ITX rig that does what I need it to do :)
 
Think there are a lot of Sandybridge owners wondering if this is the time for them to move on to the next thing... I'm definitely one of them... Love my little 2500K but think I need a refresh.
 
Yeah I'm in that boat too, still with a 2600K. I'm hoping Skylake will be worthwhile upgrading to but I've got a feeling that while it'll be noticeable on benchmarks, the real world results won't justify the cost of a new £300 CPU, £150 motherboard and £150+ of DDR4.

We shall see. I do find it quite surprising that my 4 year old 2600K can still hold its own today. I don't think I've ever had a CPU this long before. I just don't think Ivy or Haswell have offered anything worthwhile really.
 
Still on my trusty i7 2600k here too. Really want to upgrade but will not if its just going to be a measly jump..

I honestly think sandybridge has to be one of the best CPUs, it was what the 8800gtx was for GPUs.
 
Sitting on my old i7 920 right now considering if it is likely to be worthwhile to go Skylake 6600k or 6700k or just get a 4690k.. I wish I knew how much those things were likely to cost, considering the stupid price of the 4790k..
 
Got a niche usage case here and a few questions. I run simultanious video encodes, x264 on the CPU and QuickSync on the IGPU. Would I be better off with Broadwell or Skylake? If I went x99 would a 5960X be fast enough to make up for the loss of the IGPU?
 
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