Skylake vs Haswell E

[Silent_Scone]

Unless your privy to some information not available to the rest of us its looking like 2017 for SKLE? Please enlighten us if you know otherwise

I have seen some claims/ internet rumours of skle coming 'sometime' in 2016 but given 14nm broadwell-e is currently posted for q1 2016 and given Intel's recent form for getting the 14nm cpu's out of the door I think 2017 is a safe bet for now

Be prepared for Q3-Q4 2016 - as with all these things though it's subject to change. Broadwell-E is a drop in, so a shorter product life span is to be expected

 

[Gazb]

I see a lot of people mention that the skylake i5 is the better lower end buy, but why not the i7 6700 (non K), it seems to be ~£80-100 cheaper than the 6700K and for a lot of people who don't overclock much would make it the better buy.

In fact if you can enable multi-core turbo on the non K version that would probably be enough for most people.

 

[Caracus2k]

I see a lot of people mention that the skylake i5 is the better lower end buy, but why not the i7 6700 (non K), it seems to be ~£80-100 cheaper than the 6700K and for a lot of people who don't overclock much would make it the better buy.

In fact if you can enable multi-core turbo on the non K version that would probably be enough for most people.

if your not overclocking then the non 'k' i7 might be worth it. If you are willing to overclock then the i5 'k' CPU will outperform a stock i7 in most usage scenarios (esp gaming). Given that intel don't bundle their basic coolers anymore and given the ease of clocking these days most people would be best served by the i5 with at least a moderate overclock applied