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I find this is the most economical (but not [H]) way of doing it too; buy the fastest CPU possible - drop in a new GPU when required.
My patience is wearing a bit thin with my old Phenom x4 955 and the AM3 mounting bracket; although it's great in the cold months =D
If the Anandtech bench is accurate swapping out the Phenom for a i5 4690K / i7 4790K equivalent should be a massive 3x speed boost. A few USB3 ports at last wouldn't hurt either. =\
I'm not adverse to the idea of T designated parts either - I don't know what they're like in practice.
As long as it's not a pile of crap like Prescott with it's RDRAM....ugh...urk...*think happy thoughts*
Silverstone FT05 case...solid state drive...16+GB ram....*ah much better*....
This isn't a troll post. I'm fairly confident that I remember reading this about Skylake. I'll try to dig it up.
Not a troll post (I'm not up to speed on this) but any guesses on how this platform will compare to a 5960x/X99 setup (see sig)
I don't game at all. BUT I do edit Video for a living.
So should I wait for Skylake or should I just go ahead and upgrade now? I can absolutely wait until Sept / Oct if it will mean a huge benefit to Video / Photoshop work.
Thanks
Ryan G
You would be best off with a HEDT system (Currently X99 / Haswell-E) -- go with the 5960X and get 8 cores, that will rip through video editing faster than anything else, besides going multi socket, which gets VERY expensive.
Pretty decent jump - prolly 35%... If I was still on Sandy I'd be upgrading asap. The motherboard features alone...
How much is skylake gonna cost? My wallet wants to know...
How much is skylake gonna cost? My wallet wants to know...
Anyone know if the HSF mounting specs/bolt holes/pattern is the same for the new LGA 1151 socket as existing LGA 1155/1150? I can't seem to find any info about it yet...
Anyone know if the HSF mounting specs/bolt holes/pattern is the same for the new LGA 1151 socket as existing LGA 1155/1150? I can't seem to find any info about it yet...
This is the clearest shot I could find of the Asus Z170 Pro socket area, from Computex this morning. Looks very similar if not identical to 1150 to my not at all skilled gaze.
Im guessing my 5820k at 4.5ghz / 3000mhz quad channel memory and soon, 980 ti SLI's will keep me comfy for the next 18 months
I slapped together a comparison to 1150.. I don't see any difference in the mounting.
I'm going to have to agree with an early post.
I'm completely willing to go to Skylake from my i7-4790k... but there is going to have to be a major performance reason. 15% would be the minimum to compel me to change.
Otherwise, there's nothing really different or better unless you are getting Pascal and PCIE 4.0.
There's still no really good reason for most of us to need more than 4 cores. I'm still trying to figure out how Broadwell fits for home power users or gamers. It just kind of doesn't.
As always though, let's see the benchmarks.
How is 20 Pci Lanes a lot? Should be 40 Native, this 20 sound like Hot Vomit in a bag.
It looks like they are keeping this in reserve to later annihilate AMD again,
AMD isn't pushing Intel into making faster technology. They've concentrating on tablet and phone processors now. (One twentieth the size, on tenth the price, same production cost per wafer, more processors per wafer. All that adds up to a massive increase in profit over desktop or laptop chips.) I really doubt Skylake will have any more than 10% over Haswell. It will probably be closer to 0.
No, there won't be any real excitement in the CPU arena for quite some time.
So... 5930K now or 6700K later? Both upgrades cost the same(CPU,Mobo, RAM) but the extra cores are tempting. My 2600K is still working fine but I do find myself waiting sometimes while working in Photoshop or editing videos.
If the 15% were a fact I would wait for Skylake but some of the other leaks suggest it is more like 5%. Hopefully the Haifa team will not disappoint.
My wife and server both need upgrades so finally building myself a new PC also upgrades all the other. .
So... 5930K now or 6700K later? Both upgrades cost the same(CPU,Mobo, RAM) but the extra cores are tempting. My 2600K is still working fine but I do find myself waiting sometimes while working in Photoshop or editing videos.
If the 15% were a fact I would wait for Skylake but some of the other leaks suggest it is more like 5%. Hopefully the Haifa team will not disappoint.