Skylake or Nah

[DeathTechs]

Is it worth to buy Skylake (LG 1151 chipset ) and spend 100 more dollars on the motherboard and have a better advantage for DirectX12, or just go with LGA 1150 chipset and save 100 dollars and buy a better GPU with it

[ybriK]

2 minutes ago, DeathTechs said:

Is it worth to buy Skylake (LG 1151 chipset ) and spend 100 more dollars on the motherboard and have a better advantage for DirectX12, or just go with LGA 1150 chipset and save 100 dollars and buy a better GPU with it

You can get DX12 advantages for going with a Skylake platform?

 

Anyway, price to performance: Haswell, Haswell Refresh > Skylake. I'm using a used 2700K setup for $250 USD, best deal I've ever gotten.

 

 

 

 

[reesercollins]

For 100 dollars more, you can go for x99 i7 5820k instead of a i7 6700k.

 

If you wanted to, go with a 4690k and save money

[branden_lucero]

because i'm aesthetic whore, there arent many white motherboards that i like, and the one that i particularly would jump to would be on the skylake platform. but then again, holding out out one more year for cannonlake might yield the same results.

[don_svetlio]

Not worth it.

[ybriK]

Just now, branden_lucero said:

because i'm aesthetic whore, there arent many white motherboards that i like, and the one that i particularly would jump to would be on the skylake platform. but then again, holding out out one more year for cannonlake might yield the same results.

Oh it will be if Zen becomes a massive failure, RIP our wallets. Well for those who have a lot of money then that's their choice to upgrade every year to a newer platform.

[IsaacDaGrazin]

it would be cool saying

OP: Hey guess what?

Someguy: What?

OP: I've got a motherfucking skylake cpu BTIIIIITCH

Someguy: ....omfg u haz senpai skylake?!

OP: Yeeaah bitch

[Lays]

If it means sacrificing other areas of things you could buy, then don't get skylake.

 

IE: if you can buy a 6700k + all the fixins and can only get a 980, but you can get a 4790k & 980 ti, then obviously get the 4790k.

[wolfsbane3083]

If you buy skylake now you wont have to fork out for DDR4 in the future.

[DeathTechs]

as i see it now if i will run DDR4 i go for skylake and have a better experience in DirectX12 but if i can get a deal for we say now i7 4790k like the guy mention and get a much better gpu i go for that and stick with DDR3 ram? yeah

[Milosonator1]

I'm not wanting to steal this topic, but what about one of the faster i5's from Skylake like the i5-6600? Are those way overpriced for their performance compared to the last generation?

[Kryptyx]

The difference between Devil's Canyon (Haswell Refresh) and Skylake is marginal at best. Yes DDR4 is a thing but even then it isn't that much better than DDR3 currently. I would go with a 4790K and a nice Z97 board.

[Milosonator1]

But in the same league as a 6600? The difference between DDR3/4 isn't big, but the difference between the i5 and the i7 is just as significant in performance as is it's price: about 100$. The motherboard and memory options are about the same...