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Who is skylake aimed at?

Skylake appears to outperform almost every CPU on a single core application. There are no games which use 6 cores, and there likely never will be for a very long time.

Comparing a chip using all cores is not a real world exercise and for most applications not relevant.

How does Skylake compare to Haswell when only two cores are used, or four? No one seems to have tested that.
 
Flake87 said:
Skylake appears to outperform almost every CPU on a single core application. There are no games which use 6 cores, and there likely never will be for a very long time.
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I agree. Saying 6 cores will help with gaming is speculation at this point. Even if it does its unlikely to affect anything other than the very top end setups.

The 6700k makes little sense at the current price but once it hits 260 — 270 it will be a better value proposition. I'll be buying it then, but I want ITX so x99 was never on the cards.
 
Baboonanza said:
I agree. Saying 6 cores will help with gaming is speculation at this point. Even if it does its unlikely to affect anything other than the very top end setups.
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You may not see higher maximum frame rates with six cores but you should see higher minimum frame rates giving a much smoother experience in the same way the 4790K is an improvement over the 4690K, what happens lower down the frame rate scale can be just as important as what happens higher up when it comes to smooth frame rates.

Just by being there the extra cores do help even if not explicitly programmed for by developers by virtue of better load balancing.
 
Well, more cores should make more of a difference with dx12. If I was replacing my 2600k now I'd definitely go X99 instead of Skylake.
 
C64 said:
It's aimed at the type of people who have "gaming chairs".

And who like the plasticy looking garish design of the motherboards today with big symbols "gamer edition" "extreme" written all over it to go with their plasticy gamer cases.
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I've got a Herman Miller and a 5820k.
 
It's aimed at those who must have the latest and greatest regardless of whether it offers any tangible improvement.

It's not even aimed at those without a rig, building fresh, as there's much better options for your cash.
 
Not interested in 6 cores or more lanes have no use for them so bought the i7 Skylake for a very good price not upgraded in many years last cpu was i5 2500k.
 
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I bought it because my laptop is no longer sufficient for my work, and its single core performance (especially in Windows 10) is great.
 
Technically it has enough for 4 if you could go 4/4/4/4

Haven't checked with the latest & greatest but PCIe 3.0 4x doesn't slow you down beyond a % or so.
 
5820K has enough lanes (28) for 4 AMD cards at 8/8/8/4 or 3 Nvidia cards at 8/8/8, as nvidia do not allow SLI to work at 4x bandwidth.

5930k is ALMOST entirely pointless. Almost as pointless as the 6700K in fact :P
 
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Meladath said:
5820K has enough lanes (28) for 4 AMD cards at 8/8/8/4 or 3 Nvidia cards at 8/8/8, as nvidia do not allow SLI to work at 4x bandwidth.

5930k is ALMOST entirely pointless. Almost as pointless as the 6700K in fact :P
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Isn't Skylake pointless? :p
 
Newer is always better :D. For example, when a new car comes out that's worse (in some peoples eyes) than the previous people still want it.

Haswell & Haswell-E is a has-been :)
 
Flake87 said:
Skylake appears to outperform almost every CPU on a single core application. There are no games which use 6 cores, and there likely never will be for a very long time.

Comparing a chip using all cores is not a real world exercise and for most applications not relevant.

How does Skylake compare to Haswell when only two cores are used, or four? No one seems to have tested that.
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Loads of benchmarks disagree with you too - it's not looking faster in real-world tasks so far. Many people have tested that :p
 
I'm not sure why people are slating skylake so much. Regardless of the size of the improvement, there are improvements there.

Yes if you've got a Haswell build there's little incentive, but ivy bridge was little incentive over sandy bridge too.

For someone building a brand new gaming rig today you'd be mad to go with haswell. The cpu is about £40 more at the moment, and motherboards aren't that different in price.

Plus ddr4 ram isn't really that expensive, it takes dual channel ram, and you can pick some up for about 60 quid. Yes it won't be the fastest speed, and you'd be looking at around 8gb but for gaming 16gb is overkill. By the time 16gb becomes essential ddr4 ram will be cheap, and skylake will be old news anyway.

Also why are some people acting like pc hardware being more expensive at launch is a new thing lol. Skylake will eventually come down to the same price as haswell now, so the 6700k will be around 260ish.

Although in saying all of that I'd be (and am ) going x99 with a 5280k and then if upgrading later down the line you've got either the 5930k, or the 5960x, plus the possibilty of another E cpu on the current socket.
 
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So which is better then? A Skylake CPU or an x99 like the 5820 or 5930K?

I have the itch to upgrade but now that Skylake seems a bit disappointing and not much of an upgrade over a 4770K I am strongly inclining towards the 5930K so I can get my SLi 980 to both run at 16X. or is that not possible?
 
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