Temporary side-grading questions

[Panos]

Hi,

Since I haven't managed to find an mATX X79 motherboard for i7 4820K, decided to sell it for £320 and side-grade to an i5 in mATX/mITX until the AMD Zen is out (which is a guarantee change).

However while I have done quite a bit research, cannot justify the extra costs of an 6600K over a 4690K.
Example.
4690K with ASRock Z97M PRO4 Micro ATX is rounded up, to £270 delivered.
(I keep my current 8GB DDR3 ram and that Asrock is a good overclockers)

6600K with Gigabyte Z170M DH3 mATX and 16GB DDR4 RAM is £370. Or the Z170N Wifi for £380 total.

Any thoughts welcome. I will de-lid both (ordered the tool) and watercooled with custom loop.

Cheers

 

[Disco_P]

If you don't intend on keeping them super long then I'd grab something 2nd hand. Plenty of stuff comes up on the MM.

But between your options I would get the 4690K and ASRock board.

 

[Panos]

Cheers

 

[pastymuncher]

I really wouldn't place all your hopes on Zen. I just can't see them catching up and after all the bs AMD spew out before new launches and then when it arrives it's either mediocre or a flop I shall be waiting until it's actually out and much reviewed before making judgement. If I were you I would just go X99 now if that's what your usage requires.

 

[Panos]

I really wouldn't place all your hopes on Zen. I just can't see them catching up and after all the bs AMD spew out before new launches and then when it arrives it's either mediocre or a flop I shall be waiting until it's actually out and much reviewed before making judgement. If I were you I would just go X99 now if that's what your usage requires.

Nah, I wouldn't have considered changing the X79 if I didn't wanted to move to much smaller size case.

And pls lets not open another AMD vs Intel discussion here.