Question on new rig.

[colossus127]

Hey all, Iam looking for some outside advice from others about what I should go for in my next build. My current one is fine and heavily water cooled and OCed so I dont like moving it around much for any parties. And for Christmas this year I want to get my dad a 4k TV and we have no dvd player or blu ray so I figured I would make a SFF rig mainly for lan parties and letting my parents use for movies on the new 4k tv.

 

I want to go with Intel since my current build is all AMD and Iam not biased so iam switching things up, I just wonder if I should go for Skylake or not? I know its kind of expensive right now and I just saw Cannon Lake comes out next year, plus do I need all of it? Iam planning on using Intergrated graphics for a bit until they release a 950ti hopefully then go with that, so should I go for like the 6500 i5? Its not to expensive and I wont be behind with it.

 

Or does Haswell perform the same with DDR3 for cheaper and Skylake is just over priced right now? I obviosuly wont be maxing out 4k at 60fps but I would like to max out my friends cheap 1080s with it so will going for Skylake make a difference using the Intergrated graphics over the Haswell?

 

Any info is much obliged!

[TheRandomness]

If you want intergrated graphics, go with the Broadwell series, they have iGPUs compareable to 750s I think.

[Killervolt]

Hey all, Iam looking for some outside advice from others about what I should go for in my next build. My current one is fine and heavily water cooled and OCed so I dont like moving it around much for any parties. And for Christmas this year I want to get my dad a 4k TV and we have no dvd player or blu ray so I figured I would make a SFF rig mainly for lan parties and letting my parents use for movies on the new 4k tv.

 

I want to go with Intel since my current build is all AMD and Iam not biased so iam switching things up, I just wonder if I should go for Skylake or not? I know its kind of expensive right now and I just saw Cannon Lake comes out next year, plus do I need all of it? Iam planning on using Intergrated graphics for a bit until they release a 950ti hopefully then go with that, so should I go for like the 6500 i5? Its not to expensive and I wont be behind with it.

 

Or does Haswell perform the same with DDR3 for cheaper and Skylake is just over priced right now? I obviosuly wont be maxing out 4k at 60fps but I would like to max out my friends cheap 1080s with it so will going for Skylake make a difference using the Intergrated graphics over the Haswell?

 

Any info is much obliged!

Skylake doesn't really give any performance gains over Haswell and is kinda overpriced now . . . Here's what I would get.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($175.88 @ OutletPC)

Motherboard: ASRock H81M-ITX/WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($65.49 @ OutletPC)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.88 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card ($144.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Silverstone Sugo SG13B Mini ITX Tower Case ($65.03 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.08 @ Amazon)

Total: $667.33

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-05 19:43 EDT-0400

You can wait for the 950Ti if you want

[colossus127]

Skylake doesn't really give any performance gains over Haswell and is kinda overpriced now . . . Here's what I would get.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($175.88 @ OutletPC)

Motherboard: ASRock H81M-ITX/WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($65.49 @ OutletPC)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.88 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card ($144.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Silverstone Sugo SG13B Mini ITX Tower Case ($65.03 @ Amazon)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.08 @ Amazon)

Total: $667.33

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-05 19:43 EDT-0400

You can wait for the 950Ti if you want

Thats a good build I like that, I just need a either Cooler Master Elite 130 Or Fractal Design Core 500 because I need an optical drive, for the tv and all. Otherwise I would probably make the same exact build dude. Thanks for the info!