Skylake: should I rush in?

[paprikman]

Hi.

I currently have a PC, running with i5 2500, gtx 760 and I do feel that I'm gonna be switching to some newer gears soon.

What do I want from it: good computational performance, stability.

Total budget is limited by $ 1.5-2k (cpu, mobo, ram, gpu (maybe)).

 

I've watched some videos and reviews on those skylake processors, but wanted to see some more opinions on that.

Currently looking at 6700k.

 

Thanks!

 

EDIT: P.S. Australia, so multiply prices by 1.5 or even 1.7.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

no.

 

If you can afford skylake you can afford x99

 

get x99 instead

[Indus Monk]

970 with 6600k

[Tech_Dreamer]

there's like 30% bump in computation/workload compared to 2500k in some benchmarks i saw,i think you should go for it, with pretty much decent hardware picks (same process/way as you picked your current pc parts) nothing too difficult, get atleast 8 prefferebly 16gigs of ddr4  imo just to keep yourself a bit ahead

[paprikman]

no.

 

If you can afford skylake you can afford x99

 

get x99 instead

Not really... This is all about Australia prices

Like multiply them by 1.5.

[ahswodikjgahwuyedtawioudgw]

skylake is a very good option it has slightly better things in the chip that make it better than the previous devils canyon consumer chips like that ddr4 is supported wihich is a really good thing to see in newer chips as ddr4 is becoming more affordable also its pretty much the same price as a 4790k just with lower clock speed but with a bit of overclocking you could easily reach the same performance as that chip or maybe better

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Not really... This is all about Australia prices

Like multiply them by 1.5.

You should have said lol

 

Then skylake it is for you

[TravisTea]

I'd just get a new gpu and keep your current cpu unless you really want to upgrade.