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These are still not compelling enough, considering that the average Sandy will be clocked ~300MHz higher than the average Skylake. 20% might be compelling for some people, but for spending all that dough for a new CPU, a new mobo and DDR4, I'd expect more than 20%.
For instance, if you see...
Haswell-E I get it, more cores and quad channel DDR4. More cores is enough of a justification if you need them.
I would too like a PCIE NVME SSD instead of my aging 830, but I still don't find the upgrade worth it. Skylake-E on the other hand, whenever it shows up, will be a lot more compelling.
Somehow every review I've seen (that includes the [H], along with Anandtech and bit-tech) suggests that it's now worth upgrading. Why am I not seeing the reason when checking out the benchmarks? Does anyone really care about synthetics?
I own a Fractal R4 for my main machine (2600K @ 4.5GHz - GTX 760 OC). I loved the combination of the integrated triple fan controller on the lowest of the 3 settings and the 2 included fans, so I just went ahead and bought a 3rd one of the same kind (Fractal R2 140mm) to fill the front intake...
I am building a rig for my little nephew with some parts I had handy and some new ones, and I thought I should go for SSD caching, so that he gets some of the SSD benefits without the hassle of keeping track of the fullness of a small SSD.
Which way should I go? Intel IRST? Asus? Corsair...
You are probably right about the mid-range release dates. Unfortunately I'm living in Greece, and price drops don't get to appear here until after a long time, and we have no MIRs.
Current price here for a 660 ti is ~300€ or 400$, and i can sell my old gtx 460 1GB for ~70€.
You are correct.
i7-2600K @ 4.7GHz, Asus P8P67 Deluxe, 16GB Kingston HyperX 1866 CL9 (2x8GB), Coolermaster Real Power M850 PSU, Samsung 830 256GB SSD, WD RE4 2TB, 2x Dell U2412M, Win7 x64
Current card is a Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB @ 850/2050
Gaming resolution would be 1920x1200, in fullscreen...
I am playing a new MMO called Darkfall Unholy Wars, and compared to the old Darkfall game this seems to be utilizing the GPU a lot more, and I'm thinking of upgrading the Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB.
Is it gonna be worth it, or should I wait for the next generation?
Well, I've already paid and received my i7-2600K, 8GBs of Corsair Vengeance and a Thermaltake Frio. Mobo is paid for and somewhere on the road to Greece where I live, I'll just go ahead and build the system and then exchange the mobo for a newer one when the recall is available.
Since ASUS...