Holding out for Ryzen - Early Jan build

[Pumpedxd]

Been gathering some money the past few months and want to get an early build within the first few weeks in Jan. The build is mainly for gaming and any work will be using office or other light software. Maybe some light video editing, but nothing too major. 

 

I'm decided on most of my parts and was originally going for the Skylake i5. However, as Kabylake is rumoured to be very early Jan, supposedly at CES, I thought it might be worth getting that instead. As long as the product obviously isn't a complete flop in the gain that I would get for paying, I would assume, a bit more than I would for Skylake. 

 

I really want to get this build up by the end of Jan; I am going to start ordering more concrete parts like storage devices and the case just after Christmas and possibly before the new year. Ryzen's release appears very much up in the air, compared to Kabylake, even though all information is still 'rumours', but would it be worth waiting until say Feb or March to get Ryzen. Will there be much of a difference than getting Skylake or Kabylake, if the chips drop early Jan, in terms of just being put in what will be a primarily a gaming rig with no work software or video rendering?

 

EDIT: This may have been posted in the wrong section, 'CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory seem more fitting.

Edited December 19, 2016 by Pumpedxd
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[stealth80]

2 minutes ago, Pumpedxd said:

Been gathering some money the past few months and want to get an early build within the first few weeks in Jan. The build is mainly for gaming and any work will be using office or other light software. Maybe some light video editing, but nothing too major. 

 

I'm decided on most of my parts and was originally going for the Skylake i5. However, as Kabylake is rumoured to be very early Jan, supposedly at CES, I thought it might be worth getting that instead. As long as the product obviously isn't a complete flop in the gain that I would get for paying, I would assume, a bit more than I would for Skylake. 

 

I really want to get this build up by the end of Jan; I am going to start ordering more concrete parts like storage devices and the case just after Christmas and possibly before the new year. Ryzen's release appears very much up in the air, compared to Kabylake, even though all information is still 'rumours', but would it be worth waiting until say Feb or March to get Ryzen. Will there be much of a difference than getting Skylake or Kabylake, if the chips drop early Jan, in terms of just being put in what will be a primarily a gaming rig with no work software or video rendering?

Jan 17th is rining in my head for both Vega/RYZEN although I don't know why

[m0k]

havent seen any concrete benchmarks of kaby lake so its hard to say

considering its the same socket and TDP i imagine there will be little to no difference in performance vs skylake

 

skylake is a good choice

an i5 6600k will still be great for gaming 

 

[Pumpedxd]

Just now, mok said:

havent seen any concrete benchmarks of kaby lake so its hard to say

considering its the same socket and TDP i imagine there will be little to no difference in performance vs skylake

 

skylake is a good choice

an i5 6600k will still be great for gaming 

 

 

Yeah, as long as the chips release very early Jan, I'll probably just wait for reviews to see if it's worth adopting. Otherwise, more than likely, I will just go with the Skylake chip. 

[Morgan MLGman]

3 minutes ago, mok said:

havent seen any concrete benchmarks of kaby lake so its hard to say

considering its the same socket and TDP i imagine there will be little to no difference in performance vs skylake

 

skylake is a good choice

an i5 6600k will still be great for gaming 

 

There are many benches of Kaby Lake and all of those are the same on one thing: in terms of CPU performance there will be little to no gain over Skylake (at the same clock speeds) meaning that it's not worth the wait. Zen is though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 minutes ago, mok said:

havent seen any concrete benchmarks of kaby lake so its hard to say

considering its the same socket and TDP i imagine there will be little to no difference in performance vs skylake

 

skylake is a good choice

an i5 6600k will still be great for gaming 

 

Same ipc just clocked higher. Look here

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Kaby-Lake-Core-i7-7500U-Review-Skylake-on-Steroids.172692.0.html

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-kaby-lake-core-i7-7700k-overclocking-performance-review,4836.html