Skylake

chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

By all accounts this is a relatively big step forward, I have one of the original i7s but feel I could use an upgrade.

Looking at the 6700k and a Z170 mobo and 2x8gb DDR4, still a tad Pricey at £6xx would be much happy paying low £5xx.

Any recommendations for kit or suggestions on the build? Any idea when there will be a price drop?

Rest of the kit is

Corsair H100i
GTX780
Crucial M550(OS Drive) + M4(Steam drive)
Corsair HX850
Asus Xonar
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notbike · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Apr 2014 Karma :

I jus upgraded my whole rig to skylake. If you wana save a bit of £, then the 850w PSU isn't necessary for the gfx card you're using unless you're going SLI or overclocking your rig.

My whole rig draws around 500 odd watts, only reason I put the AX860 in is because I'm likely gonna shove a 2nd gtx 980ti in there for SLI and it'll be drawing another 200-300.

Furhtermore you can drop the sound card to save a few £ unless you're doing high level music production.

For gaming, Audio Boost 3 on most 170 chipset mobo's will be perfectly fine for all your gaming needs. It's pretty good for other stuff too like music/movies cause the software comes with audio profiles.

Out of curiosity which mobo you going for, and also what are you using PC for?

I'm on MSI z170a m7 and it's pretty sweet.

chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

supZ · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Feb 2009 Karma :

just upgrading myself as my current pc threw a major hissy fit on friday.

i7 4790k 4ghz cpu
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 mobo
Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16GB DDR3
MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Twin Frozr

bit of a step up from my 2500k Smile

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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

Any reason you didn't go DDR4? Seems silly to me personally to buy new gear but not get the new form factors.
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notbike · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Apr 2014 Karma :

Im-a-Ridah · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Karma :

That's a huge amount of money for what looks like 10fps increase on an already very fast CPU. The benefit of the newer chips is more in power efficiency, not speed. If it were a laptop chip then I could see the point.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review

notbike · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Apr 2014 Karma :

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Seb · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Karma :

Still not found a reason to replace my ye olde i7-950 tbh.

Does just fine with a single 780ti, although the upgrade would make a lot more sense if I ran SLI.

I suspect Pascal will be the trigger for a fresh pc though.
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Jayy · Mr. Ponzi Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Karma :

Only reason I see of upgrading my Ivybridge is the DDR4 ram on the board. I know Skylake won't exactly leap me in to cutting edge speeds compared with Ivybridge but I'd like to utilise DDR4 and everything else an upgraded board comes with.

My rig is used for occasional gaming (Tri SLi), occasional video editing and mostly design work.