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Skylake or Devils Canyon?

neviditelny

neviditelny

neviditelny

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Hello there

I am in the hunt for a new computer now when my finances finally allows it. I'm looking around at different builds and am wondering which would be the better buy looking for a long term solution? The new Skylake (I'm thinking of the 6700K there) or the Devils Canyon (4790K).

They are close to each other in price and with the full build they will still be very close to each other in the full price for the full rig (less than £50 difference).

I'm mostly doing some plain gaming and smaller multi-tasking but I'm looking to get something I won't need to upgrade too much in the next few years (except from possibly the graphic card).

The advantages with the Skylake is that the mobo would be able to handle a lot more memory than the Devil's Canyon. However, the Devil's Canyon, even if a bit older than the Skylake is a CPU that should work fairly well and which there is less "kids diseases" on (hopefully).

So any suggestions and opinions would be gratefully received.

And about the full rig, it would cost me about £1350-1400 depending if I decide to upgrade my GPU and get a new storage HDD.
 
Well, both a Devil's Canyon and a Skylake will be an upgrade from my current AMD Phenom II Quad Core 3,5Ghz :P :D

The memory I've looked at for the Skylake is some Corsair 2x16GB 2400Mhz, but I will look into the 3000Mhz as well.
 
I'm mainly doing some basic gaming and listen to music & watch movies on the computer plus using it for my studies. But I tend to try build my pc's to last for quite a while (this one i've had for over 5,5 years now and its time to upgrade). Not sure if the x99 would be worth the money for me at the moment though but it is looking quite interesting.
 
Someone somewhere mentioned something about that there was some issues with the Skylake and Win10? Is that something you guys know or have heard something about? Or any other "child diseases" to be aware of?
 
I've decided to go with the Skylake 6700K. Now I'm just trying to sort the case out as I've been told the case I was thinking about getting isn't very good in cooling (specially aircooling).
 
I have pretty much decided for the Fractual Design Define R5 case now. I was first thinking about the BitFenix Shinobi XL case but was told it doesn't cool very well.

I'm thinking about using 2x140mm fans in the front, 1x140mm in the rear and 1x140mm in the top.
 
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