Skylake

[Joeyf201]

So there is all this hype about skylake now. I was planning on building a new system soon and was gonna base it on an i5 4690k. I am working on a fairly tight budget. Is it worth it to spend nearly $200 more for skylake? 

[Aytex]

 Is it worth it to spend nearly $200 more for skylake? 

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Nah.If you really need usb 3.1/type a just get expansion cards

[typographie]

So there is all this hype about skylake now. I was planning on building a new system soon and was gonna base it on an i5 4690k. I am working on a fairly tight budget. Is it worth it to spend nearly $200 more for skylake?

Why is it $200 more? If you already have half of a Haswell system, then stick with Haswell.

If you're starting a new build from scratch, Skylake should only be a bit more expensive for the DDR4 memory (16 GB of DDR4 is like $20-40 more than 16 GB of DDR3). The Skylake CPU and motherboard are priced about the same as Haswell/Z97 equivalents.

[Joeyf201]

If you're overclocking, potentially yes. It's just a new generation with incremental performance, and if you're building before Christmas prices are going to come down and the i3s/Pentiums/Celerons will be released within a few months.

So unless you're building this moment, yes. And you probably won't be spending nearly $200 more in any case.

Well, I was originally going to be building in a mini itx form factor. The price difference when taking into account more expensive case, cpu, motherboard, ram, and a wireless card, the difference comes out to about $250

[Imakuni]

Well, I was originally going to be building in a mini itx form factor. The price difference when taking into account more expensive case, cpu, motherboard, ram, and a wireless card, the difference comes out to about $250

And what is it that you want out of such system? To game? To make a workstation? To fold?

[Guest Johnny5g]

i would say yes.

[Joeyf201]

Well, I was originally going to be building in a mini itx form factor. The price difference when taking into account more expensive case, cpu, motherboard, ram, and a wireless card, the difference comes out to about $250

 

And what is it that you want out of such system? To game? To make a workstation? To fold?

Mostly gaming. But I also do occasional stuff with photos/ videos

[Imakuni]

Mostly gaming. But I also do occasional stuff with photos/ videos

Okay.

 

If you are gaming with a discrete GPU, then there's no reason to get Skylake. A low powered haswell i5 will do just as good as the power hungry skylake. I also assume you aren't overclocking, seing as it is a mini-itx build, so you could even cheap out on the mobo, going as far as getting h81.

 

If you are gaming with the integrated graphics (you know... some mini-itx builds go that route), then you get neither. You get a Broadwell CPU, with it's stupidly low power consumption and stellar iGPU performance. In fact, even with a discrete GPU, you could use the Broadwell for the lower TDP, as the performance is almost the same, although that's not mandatory.