Skylake improvements over current

[Zandvliet]

Hi,

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to Skylake, if I'll do this I will get:

• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula

• Corsair Dominator Platinum 3000MHz 16GB (4x4)

• Intel Core i7-6700K  4 GHz

Currently, I have:

• Maxiumus VII Formula
• Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16Gb 2400MHz (8x2)
• Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core 3.4 GHZ

I'm wondering what kind of performance increase I can expect.

Any thoughts on this?

[Samfisher]

Almost impossible to actually observe in day to day use and even games.

[Mecami]

Single thread performance-wise almost none in games.

The only thing that's gonna benefit you is HT in some games, but that's it... not really worth it imo.

[Moonzy]

19 minutes ago, Zandvliet said:

Hi,

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to Skylake, if I'll do this I will get:

• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula

• Corsair Dominator Platinum 3000MHz 16GB (4x4)

• Intel Core i7-6700K  4 GHz

Currently, I have:

• Maxiumus VII Formula
• Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16Gb 2400MHz (8x2)
• Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core 3.4 GHZ

I'm wondering what kind of performance increase I can expect.

Any thoughts on this?

 

gaming wise, not much performance gains

cpu horsepower is raised though because you're going from an i5 to an i7

 

though if you do get skylake, dont get 4x4gb ram, get 2x8gb and leave 2 slot open for future expansion...

[Jer45]

1 hour ago, Zandvliet said:

Hi,

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to Skylake, if I'll do this I will get:

• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula

• Corsair Dominator Platinum 3000MHz 16GB (4x4)

• Intel Core i7-6700K  4 GHz

Currently, I have:

• Maxiumus VII Formula
• Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16Gb 2400MHz (8x2)
• Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core 3.4 GHZ

I'm wondering what kind of performance increase I can expect.

Any thoughts on this?

just upgrade to the 4790K the difference between skylake and haswell is negligible http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790K

the only benefit is DDR4

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, Mecami said:

Single thread performance-wise almost none in games.

The only thing that's gonna benefit you is HT in some games, but that's it... not really worth it imo.

skylake single thread performance is actually significantly better than haswell

he should notice quite a few fps increase in games, even if they dont use 8 threads

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mecami]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

skylake single thread performance is actually significantly better than haswell

he should notice quite a few fps increase in games, even if they dont use 8 threads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well my info is based on anandtech's skylake review http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation

This tells a bit of a different story...

[Zandvliet]

11 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

 

gaming wise, not much performance gains

cpu horsepower is raiser though because you're going from an i5 to an i7

 

though if you do get skylake, dont get 4x4gb ram, get 2x8gb and leave 2 slot open for future expansion...

Thanks! But could you explain more why not 4x4? And what you mean by future expansion?

[Moonzy]

Just now, Zandvliet said:

Thanks! But could you explain more why not 4x4? And what you mean by future expansion?

well the motherboard only comes with 4 ram slots, if you fill all 4 now you cant add more later

but if you think 16gb will be enough for you until the end of this build (16gb should be able to last you awhile for gaming), sure, just get 4x4

[Zandvliet]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

well the motherboard only comes with 4 ram slots, if you fill all 4 now you cant add more later

but if you think 16gb will be enough for you until the end of this build (16gb should be able to last you awhile for gaming), sure, just get 4x4

Ah alright got it, yeah I won't be upgrading to more than 16GB so 4x4 will be fine for me.

Though I assume 4x4 is better than 2x8?

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Zandvliet said:

Ah alright got it, yeah I won't be upgrading to more than 16GB so 4x4 will be fine for me.

Though I assume 4x4 is better than 2x8?

not for skylake, since they'll run in dual channel bandwidth anyway

[Zandvliet]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

not for skylake, since they'll run in dual channel bandwidth anyway

Thanks, then I'll go with 2x8. Plus it's also like 50 euros cheaper, if I upgrade..

[BurstSMG]

29 minutes ago, Zandvliet said:

Hi,

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to Skylake, if I'll do this I will get:

• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula

• Corsair Dominator Platinum 3000MHz 16GB (4x4)

• Intel Core i7-6700K  4 GHz

Currently, I have:

• Maxiumus VII Formula
• Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16Gb 2400MHz (8x2)
• Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core 3.4 GHZ

I'm wondering what kind of performance increase I can expect.

Any thoughts on this?

Spoiler

Just IPC. A 6700k averages better in performance than a 4790k, but in gaming, only increases FPS 10-20