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Does anybody know anything about Intel's release date/specs for Skylake? Is it worth waiting for? Should I go Broadwell? or even go Haswell Refresh? A lot of options...not sure of the pros or cons for any of them. Help?

Skylake is a whole new socket, so you will have to wait for the CPU's then a few more months for the Motherboards. However, the skylake CPU's are not exactly powerhouses in terms of performance, so I don't think it will be that worth it. Haswell refresh and Broadwell and much more common and will likely become cheaper when skylake is released. So I would recommend staying on the socket 1150 platform 

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Does anybody know anything about Intel's release date/specs for Skylake? Is it worth waiting for? Should I go Broadwell? or even go Haswell Refresh? A lot of options...not sure of the pros or cons for any of them. Help?

 

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Skylake is a whole new socket, so you will have to wait for the CPU's then a few more months for the Motherboards. However, the skylake CPU's are not exactly powerhouses in terms of performance, so I don't think it will be that worth it. Haswell refresh and Broadwell and much more common and will likely become cheaper when skylake is released. So I would recommend staying on the socket 1150 platform

Other way around.

Motherboards are arriving next month if the words on the street is right.

Then cpus later.

Yeah skylake will cost more, but it's faster then the rest so ofc it costs more.

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Other way around.

Motherboards are arriving next month if the words on the street is right.

Then cpus later.

Well having a motherboard with no CPU won't do you much good now will it?

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It will be really interesting to see how/if they've gotten around the density issue for larger CPU dies (ie - feeding power to all the transistors without frying the chip in the process). Obviously Tri-gate/FinFet is what is allowing them to get around the density problem since 22nm/ivybridge, but voltage will be a serious matter at 14nm, so who knows what kind of overclocking fun* will be had with skylake (replace fun with limitations).

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I use my PC for rendering video, photo editing, and gaming. Is skylake set to be able to OC? Also price isnt too much of an issue, just not trying to shell out 500 for a CPU in the E series for haswell if a broadwell is coming that'd be better, or a skylake.

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I use my PC for rendering video, photo editing, and gaming. Is skylake set to be able to OC? Also price isnt too much of an issue, just not trying to shell out 500 for a CPU in the E series for haswell if a broadwell is coming that'd be better, or a skylake.

The 2 best skylake cpu will be 14nm versions of the 4790k and 4690k and are rumored to offer a 10-15% boost in performance. They will be unlocked. Honestly, for what you are using it for, you will be just as well off, if not better, going with the Haswell-E i7 5820k. Its only going dor about $20 more than the 4790k, has 6 cores and is also unlocked.

Other way around.

Motherboards are arriving next month if the words on the street is right.

Then cpus later.

Yeah skylake will cost more, but it's faster then the rest so ofc it costs more.

The chipsets are shipping from Intel to the mobo manufacturers in a little over a month. Then they can make the motherboards and have then ready by the time skylake is released. They're not going to release mobos months before anyone has a use for them, bud

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