Gaming CPU

[TheGodAlmighty]

I've had my buld for about 1 1/2 - 2 years, and i think i might need a new cpu. I was wondering if i should stick with my AMD 8350 OC'd to 4.5 ghz, or wait a few months and get Intel's skylake cpus. Thanks

[79 Potatoes]

I was wondering if i should stick with my AMD 8350 OC'd to 4.5 ghz, or wait a few months and get Intel's skylake cpus. Thanks

If those are your 2 options get skylake...

[Kyuubixchidori]

what's your use case?

[TheKDub]

Skylake.

[evilarceus]

Intel Skylake for gaming and possibly rendering and streaming, depending on what they're going to show. Hopefully a 6/8 core CPU.

[Enderman]

wait for skylake then buy an i5/i7

[TheGodAlmighty]

what's your use case?

Gaming

[MageTank]

Intel Skylake for gaming and possibly rendering and streaming, depending on what they're going to show. Hopefully a 6/8 core CPU.

There will not be any 6/8 core consumer skylake chips. This has been confirmed several times over, and Intel is against giving more cores to general consumer chips because throwing more cores at a problem solves nothing. The cores are only ever useful in server configurations. They do offer the E series chips for prosumers that truly need them for content creation and stuff along those lines, but thats it.

[1hitwonder]

There will not be any 6/8 core consumer skylake chips. This has been confirmed several times over, and Intel is against giving more cores to general consumer chips because throwing more cores at a problem solves nothing. The cores are only ever useful in server configurations. They do offer the E series chips for prosumers that truly need them for content creation and stuff along those lines, but thats it.

 

 

I agree there will more than likely not be anymore than 8 cores offered in consumer Skylake chips.  What I am watching for and what I think most are watching for is more PCI Express lanes.

[evilarceus]

There will not be any 6/8 core consumer skylake chips. This has been confirmed several times over, and Intel is against giving more cores to general consumer chips because throwing more cores at a problem solves nothing. The cores are only ever useful in server configurations. They do offer the E series chips for prosumers that truly need them for content creation and stuff along those lines, but thats it.

I haven't looked over that many rumors/news on it.

[MageTank]

I agree there will more than likely not be anymore than 8 cores offered in consumer Skylake chips.  What I am watching for and what I think most are watching for is more PCI Express lanes.

You did not read my post. There won't be 6 or 8 cores AT ALL on consumer skylake chips. 4 is the magic number, same as current line-ups. Unless you go with the workstation platform and get an -E chip, you will not see more than 4 cores. Intel has said this themselves countless times, and people still think a miracle will happen. People want more cores without even knowing why. More is not better. Zen will have an 8 core chip, and with the removal of CMT, it might be great, but it is still a risk. Until games start utilizing more than 2-4 cores (We are just now seeing the beginning of the end of dual cores for gaming) then perhaps more cores will become necessary. Until then, be happy with the 4 cores we get, because they are plenty enough for what we are currently doing.

[1hitwonder]

You did not read my post. There won't be 6 or 8 cores AT ALL on consumer skylake chips. 4 is the magic number, same as current line-ups. Unless you go with the workstation platform and get an -E chip, you will not see more than 4 cores. Intel has said this themselves countless times, and people still think a miracle will happen. People want more cores without even knowing why. More is not better. Zen will have an 8 core chip, and with the removal of CMT, it might be great, but it is still a risk. Until games start utilizing more than 2-4 cores (We are just now seeing the beginning of the end of dual cores for gaming) then perhaps more cores will become necessary. Until then, be happy with the 4 cores we get, because they are plenty enough for what we are currently doing.

I did read your post, and I did say I agree with you...   An I7 with HT yeilding 8 threads is technically not an 8 core chip BUT in the eyes of programs and the OS it might as well be...

[MageTank]

I did read your post, and I did say I agree with you...   An I7 with HT yeilding 8 threads is technically not an 8 core chip BUT in the eyes of programs and the OS it might as well be...

An i7 with HT is still just 4 cores with 8 threads. HT does not equate to real physical cores. Even in gaming, HT does little to nothing to aid in performance. In fact, one could disable HT and OC with a greater result in stability. The raw OC would be far more helpful than the 4 extra, unused threads for gaming. You mentioned cores, so i specifically mentioned cores. Threads and cores are not the same thing. Oh, and in the "eyes of programs", it still won't care about HT. Very few applications are capable of leveraging that many threads to a full load anyways, outside of stress testing applications. For gaming and most general use programs, the extra threads mean diddly squat. Sure, some content creation programs might love you for having HT (read what i said in my previous post regarding prosumer chips) but for what OP specifically specified, an i7 would not even offer any benefit over an i5. The only difference in gaming performance from an i5 to an i7, is the core clock itself. When games can use more than 4 threads correctly, then maybe ill consider HT a boon to the average gamer.