Skylake integrated graphics

[Hojoh]

Hello everyone. Thank you for your help last time. In the end i decided to stick with skylake.

So, i play mostly league of legends, mount and blade warband and total war games. My question is: is there any benefits in i5 or i7 integrated graphics over i3 6100. We are talking about skylake. I saw a benchmark with oc i3 to 4.7 ghz and it was almost toe to toe with i7.

And i would upgrade to some gpu if i need it in the future.

[SeanAngelo]

Hello everyone. Thank you for your help last time. In the end i decided to stick with skylake.

So, i play mostly league of legends, mount and blade warband and total war games. My question is: is there any benefits in i5 or i7 integrated graphics over i3 6100. We are talking about skylake. I saw a benchmark with oc i3 to 4.7 ghz and it was almost toe to toe with i7.

And i would upgrade to some gpu if i need it in the future.

If it's only LoL, then integrated graphics will be just fine. But for my personal opinion, It's better to get a dedicate graphics card for several reasons....

[poker1059]

Intel integrated graphics aren't meant for gaming but the difference between the i3 and the i5 or i7 shouldn't be a huge difference since, they're both just the cheap Intel graphics. And if you want to play games you should get a GPU, doesn't need to be a 980 but something like 750 ti or 950 would be a good budget one

[Guest HyppoCube]

if you are able to buy this, then you are able to buy 860k and a dedicated gpu. i think you might be able to squeeze in gtx 260x or even 750ti

[Glenwing]

The graphics chip is the same on i3/i5/i7 desktop processors, there is no GPU advantage to a higher tier processor.

[Qwerty2323]

in general even if you could oc i3 issue with ocing is you still need special motherboards from z series and they will cost more. So if you got spare cash pick h170 motherboard and i5. As for gpu gtx 950 is atm best moba gpu and price is pretty good.

Only reason to go with i5 over i3 is because most high end games are optimized for quad cores and will suffer huge performance hit with duo cores. But there is no issue with games like lol. 

Cheapest i5 atm from skylake is around 190$ and is i5 6400

[Hojoh]

I will get dedicated gpu for sure but later. In the mean time i just want to play lol and i want to make a wide upgrade path. If i don't get Z170 chipset i have a good chance to damage cpu with ddr3 memory (correct me if i'm wrong, i saw a lot of stuff lately).

To summarize i wanna play with integrated graphics and then upgrade gpu. Is it smarter to wait for amd new processors and for ddr4 prices to fall down?

[Hojoh]

And one more thing. If i get 860k i will probably get stuck soon and ut will bottleneck r9 380 which i am aiming for.