Upgrading cpu or going for new socket?

[かあびぃ]

Hey. I was wondering wether i should keep the current motherboard, ram, and psu i have and just upgrade to a 4790k + new case, cooler, more ram, and possibly gpu and then upgrade to a new motherboard later on.

 

or

 

Upgrade motherboard + cpu(i7 4790k) and case, and cooler but not the GPU, and just go for the same amount of ram 

 

or

 

Upgrade to the skylake socket and get a 6700k + case, and ram + a lower end cooler, and no new GPU

 

This is my current build:

 

CPU: G3258

 

GPU: Asus 280x directcuii

 

MOBO: Asrock h81 HDS 2.0

 

RAM: 8GB Hyperx fury 1600mhz

 

Cooler: Stock intel cooler

[NinjaJc01]

Skylake one.

[Lolucoca]

You could upgrade to a 4790 and keep the motherboard and ram. Or you could pay a few bucks more and get ddr4...

[かあびぃ]

Weird that guy who has the 6700k says 4790 and the guy with haswell says skylake  

[APasz]

Personally I would go with the 4790K build as it still has a very long life ahead, at least 6 years before upgrading should be considered. Intel has said that the next few generations of cpus will be focusing on power consumption more than performance so you wont be missing out much.

I have an i7 870s rig which still holds it's own 7 years on.

 

If you don't need any features of Skylake such as M.2 or extra PCIe lanes, Haswell will serve you well.

So かあびぃ3 it's really up to you. What do you need from your PC?

[かあびぃ]

8 minutes ago, APasz said:

Personally I would go with the 4790K build as it still has a very long life ahead, at least 6 years before upgrading should be considered. Intel has said that the next few generations of cpus will be focusing on power consumption more than performance so you wont be missing out much.

I have an i7 870s rig which still holds it's own 7 years on.

 

If you don't need any features of Skylake such as M.2 or extra PCIe lanes, Haswell will serve you well.

So かあびぃ3 it's really up to you. What do you need from your PC?

I need to play and stream LoL, and possibly some rainbow six siege basically, but alsoneed it to be extremely fast for multitasking, future projects and so on (+ its nice not to have to upgrade).

 

 

(its also nice to make it look awesome ofc :))

[APasz]

1 minute ago, かあびぃ said:

I need to play and stream LoL, and possibly some rainbow six siege basically, but alsoneed it to be extremely fast for multitasking, future projects and so on (+ its nice not to have to upgrade).

 

 

(its also nice to make it look awesome ofc :))

Basically all Skylake brings to the table is M.2, extra PCIe lanes (which most people don't use), an extra 1-2 fps (depends on the game), ddr4 (which has no real every day benefit other than total capacity over ddr3) and slightly lower power use.

Both platforms are so similar in performance that the only real differences are what I listed above.