I3 6100 bang v I5 6400

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I just got my return credit posted at newegg for my returned 480. I just got a founder version of 1070 am buying this board MSI H110M ECO LGA 1151 Intel H110 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com w 16 gb of aegis Gkskil2133 ddr 4 Joining premier to get fast shipping to beat win 10 deadline. My under standing is that a Skylake will work with win 7. which I have copy. I also understand that the 6100 is pretty good for an I3 is the 6400 I5 that much better? I am trying to keep the price down. Really don't overclock these days but gotta use the return credit. Both have 4 threads just 6100 is hyper threaded.
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Considerations:
You may need to slipstream drivers for your mobo into the Win7 image to get Win7 running ok. I had a helluva time getting Win7 running on a buddy's machine with H170 board and i5-6600k. YMMV but it's not a huge problem.
Hyperthreading is nice, but it's not the same as having four discrete cores. I would suggest getting the i5. Just my $0.02!
 
I5 6500 probably best choice 6400 bit slower but why put a 1070 with 2.7 cpu... I was hoping to install 7 then go to 10. but sounds like a lot of pain and deadline would be really close....may just buy 10 then hopefully no headaches? Win 10 does support skylake out of box?
 
MS has an official software to make any thumbdrive into W10 installation media. Download that and try using your W7 key, to do a fresh install of W10.
 
went with 6500 and digital download of win 10 I hope the digital download is not oem...16 gb of gskill ripjaws hope its good ram. Well a brand new 1070 and evga 600 watt psu await with a PNY 480 ssd (the one with a flaming cat on it) Right now I am upgrading all my desktops 2 old q6600s and Amd T1055 Hexacore average time has been around 8 hours each. An I still got two 8.1 laptops to do.. Thanks for the advice. Should blow my A10-7870k out of the water.......
 
Windows 10

"Follow these instructions to perform a clean installation of Windows 10. If you want to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, follow the instructions in theUpgrade to Windows 10 using the tool section. If you haven’t upgraded to Windows 10 yet and perform a clean installation, you’ll need to enter a qualifying product key for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 or buy a license in order to activate Windows 10."
 
This should help you out if you need to install Windows 7 for any reason first. But you should just be able to use the Win7 key.

Download Windows 7* USB 3.0 Creator Utility

Also, I'm in agreement with you on the "meh" opinion of the i5 6400. It's so castrated, the only two processors worth choosing are the 6500 or the 6100 :D

Most game benchmarks show the i3 62100 tied with the 6400.
 
From Windows Vista there is less and less ram needed to run just the OS. If there is one thing MS did right was to lower minimum system requirements for the OS. So Vista needed at least 4GB ram to move nice and W7<W8/8.1<W10. But i see that people buying more ram than buying less ram. Even if you have an AMD APU 8GB of ram should be enough. Depends what you use the i3 for but i think it is an awesome CPU. For slipstreaming drivers into a Win7 image you might want to use NTLight. It is very much like NLITE for WinXP. The only real valid reason to upgrade to W10 would be DX12 gaming and as I am not doing that there is no incentive for me to upgrade. I am happy as a clam with my Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
 
Only reason I went with 10 was skylake support. It is 6:50 pm in upstate NY where I live and I just finished the basic hardware Msi 110 Eco, I-6500 16gb Gskill mem and for now 240 Pny ssd. I will be adding more but just wanted to get it up and running. It is installing win 10 as I type this. I will be ordering 2 92 mm pwn fans and a usb 3,1 header. Maybe I might get the Gtx 1070 in tonight.OH What fun. This is all after updating mine and all family members to windows 10 this week. A Total of 14 machines!!
 
Marstg said:
From Windows Vista there is less and less ram needed to run just the OS. If there is one thing MS did right was to lower minimum system requirements for the OS. So Vista needed at least 4GB ram to move nice and W7<W8/8.1<W10. But i see that people buying more ram than buying less ram. Even if you have an AMD APU 8GB of ram should be enough. Depends what you use the i3 for but i think it is an awesome CPU. For slipstreaming drivers into a Win7 image you might want to use NTLight. It is very much like NLITE for WinXP. The only real valid reason to upgrade to W10 would be DX12 gaming and as I am not doing that there is no incentive for me to upgrade. I am happy as a clam with my Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
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I think part of it is the whole VRAM take off. 1080/1070/480/1060 have lots of VRAM, I'm currently rocking 8GB's, but my card is a 1GB card...something tells me I'd push to 16GB if I had a 8GB VRAM card.

Hey, at least its not the old days with 256MB of VRAM rocking against 1GB of RAM. If I kept that up, I'd have to go 32GB!
 
with 16 I seem to always have around 9 or 10 gb available. Ram is fairly cheap anyway..
 
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