Is Skylake worth it?

[MattTheMayor]

Hey.

 

I haven't caught up with the "latest trends". I knew about skylake releasing and all. I was just wondering is there a significant difference over devil's canyon performance wise? What's the pros of skylake? Cons? Is it something that would be used in the sweet spot of pc gaming/editing (900-1200 area)? Would it benefit more in gaming or more in workstation builds? What is basically the 4690k (a processor that is just right) of Skylake?

 

Just wondering since I don't see much using Skylake processors unless they have crazy budgets. Inform me on some stuff!

[Profoundsoup]

Hey.

 

I haven't caught up with the "latest trends". I knew about skylake releasing and all. I was just wondering is there a significant difference over devil's canyon performance wise? What's the pros of skylake? Cons? Is it something that would be used in the sweet spot of pc gaming/editing (900-1200 area)? Would it benefit more in gaming or more in workstation builds? What is basically the 4690k (a processor that is just right) of Skylake?

 

Just wondering since I don't see much using Skylake processors unless they have crazy budgets. Inform me on some stuff!

I gained 10-25 fps in most games going from a 3770k to a 6700k at 1440p so if u want an upgrade its worth it IMO. Here is a video I recommend to anyone looking at Skylake. Go watch and see what U think.

 

 

[App4that]

Skylake is better than Haswell, but Haswell can be less expensive giving you a better value.

All depends on what you do, gaming at 1080p Haswell will provide all the power you need.

[Aytex]

from devil's canyon to skylake, i would say no

[Elehat]

Skylake pros are IPC, DMI-3 (4 more PCI-e lanes), DDR4, better heat and overclocking due to VRM stuff being back off chip. Also if u want stuff like usb type c there are more skylake mobos with these features.

[riklaunim]

I upgraded from Ivy Bridge. Raw benchmarks show better performance, but games did work on both (Witcher 3 / HoTS). Main benefit of upgrade is more than one SATA III port and I want to have double-OS on double SSDs in this case. If you have high end DDR3 then DDR4 changes rather nothing, and the performance gains from Haswell/Broadwell aren't rather worth it.

[striker477]

I would say if your running devils canyon and looking to upgrade to skylake I would say no. I however upgraded from my old phenom 965 to I5 6600K talk about a huge increase.