What would you do?

[Gimpymoo]

Father Christmas is bringing the nippa a PC for Christmas.

He likes his games and plays a mix of Indie to AAA stuff. Gaming will be at 1080p.

Normally, for the childrens rigs, I upgrade my rig and give them my cast offs in a new shiny case. benefits are, they get a computer and my upgrade cost is "halfed" as I am getting two computers, if that makes sense?

In this instance, my "cast off" is a 4770k so not too shabby and to be honest, does what I want it to do and the extra threads help me when doing stuff other than gaming.

This time around however, I am struggling to justify upgrading my rig with a "old for new" upgrade as the value just does not seem to be there.

Options are:

*Devils Canyon 4790K
Sure, the nippa would get a 4770K but for me, seems more of a sidegrade than an upgrade?

*i7 6700K
This seems the "Upgrade" option but the cost really does "bite". I do not see the performance gains relative to the price point?

*i5-6600K Skylake
This would mean I do not get an upgrade but would be adequate for the nippas PC with performance relative to what he needs.

*An AMD rig?
Erm, no idea but open to suggestions?

Just seems like the wrong time for me to be "upgrading", if a year later, options would have been more clear.

Hope all of that makes sense and thanks for any help.

 

[drakioned]

Yeah, not worth upgrading the CPUs at this point really?

Just up your graphics card and build the kids a machine around the cheapest i5 you can find.

 

[TubbyGreg]

I would suggest build the kid's rig around a cheap i5 or maybe an AMD part. But give them some other old stuff out of your rig. Maybe even build it with them on Christmas. They might really enjoy that. Maybe they won't enjoy the windows install and the drivers so much, though.

 

[sastusbulbas]

There is currently no reason to upgrade the 4770K. I myself waited for Skylake but it has no real performance increase over the last few chipsets, so I am happy to wait.

As for a kids pc. Never yet seen any parent point out any task a child requires a pc for that justifies the hardware choices.

 

[PooKer]

What GPU have you got? And have you got Air on the 4770k or a AIO or watercooling? Maybe if its not a great cooler it could be worth improving at than doing a little overclocking. Then either an i5 for the kiddies or sit on the money till something more meaty comes along.

Unless the "other stuff" on the side if very core heavy then maybe a look at X99 with 6 or 8 hyper threaded cores.