New Cpu?

[MorbidAnge1]

Hey guys! First time on this forum, and I figured id ask if the CPU I have chosen would be a nice fit to my gpu (since i'm getting a pretty big bottleneck as of now). Right now I have the xfx r9 390, and I was planning on getting a i5 6600k. Lastly, I wanted to ask if the 6600k is perfectly fine with DDR3 1600 ram. Thanks

[Aytex]

No 6600k is not ok with DDR3

Your either going to have to get DDR4 or just get something like a 4690k

Your going to have to upgrade your motherboard as well, not every cpu works globally with any motherboard

[Orangeator]

What motherboard do you have now, like what socket is it?

[Citadelen]

3 minutes ago, Aytex said:

 

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I'm pretty sure the chipset Skylake uses supports both DDR3 and 4. So it would depend on the motherboard as to which type is supported.

[Jer45]

6 minutes ago, MorbidAnge1 said:

Hey guys! First time on this forum, and I figured id ask if the CPU I have chosen would be a nice fit to my gpu (since i'm getting a pretty big bottleneck as of now). Right now I have the xfx r9 390, and I was planning on getting a i5 6600k. Lastly, I wanted to ask if the 6600k is perfectly fine with DDR3 1600 ram. Thanks

the 6600k is great, and if you dont plan to overclock, other skylake chipsets use ddr3 instead of ddr4 http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/ 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132582&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-N82E16813132582&gclid=Cj0KEQjw0dy4BRCuuL_e5MeqmNABEiQAq8iNI8ZsyJCkUzhM6Yj-50uWDCTs54jzSrAZajBBwhl2o4AaAqcM8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

4 minutes ago, Aytex said:

No 6600k is not ok with DDR3

Your either going to have to get DDR4 or just get something like a 4690k

Your going to have to upgrade your motherboard as well, not every cpu works globally with any motherboard

 

[MorbidAnge1]

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What motherboard do you have now, like what socket is it?

 

Well I was basically looking for a budget style board that suits my needs, so here it is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157674&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= The mobo supposedly supports ddr3 at my clockspeed. Currently I have this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157468 As you can tell ill obviously need a new board

[Jer45]

4 minutes ago, MorbidAnge1 said:

Well I was basically looking for a budget style board that suits my needs, so here it is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157674&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= The mobo supposedly supports ddr3 at my clockspeed 

http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/ plz take this into consideration

 

[MorbidAnge1]

22 minutes ago, Aytex said:

No 6600k is not ok with DDR3

Your either going to have to get DDR4 or just get something like a 4690k

Your going to have to upgrade your motherboard as well, not every cpu works globally with any motherboard

Would you say that the 4690k is much worse than the 6600k? Enough to warrant me to buy new ddr4 sticks just to have the 6600k?

[Aytex]

Just now, MorbidAnge1 said:

Would you say that the 4690k is much worse than the 6600k? Enough to warrant me to buy new ddr4 sticks just to have the 6600k?

look at benchmarks

If your too lazy, no its not much worse than the 6600k

[Jer45]

2 minutes ago, MorbidAnge1 said:

Would you say that the 4690k is much worse than the 6600k? Enough to warrant me to buy new ddr4 sticks just to have the 6600k?

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K they are very close in perfomance

[MorbidAnge1]

6 minutes ago, Jer45 said:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K they are very close in perfomance

 

7 minutes ago, Aytex said:

look at benchmarks

If your too lazy, no its not much worse than the 6600k

Alright, I will more than likely just look at mobos that support that different socket and go with the 4690k as I wont have to worry with ddr3 not being supported

[Jer45]

46 minutes ago, MorbidAnge1 said:

 

Alright, I will more than likely just look at mobos that support that different socket and go with the 4690k as I wont have to worry with ddr3 not being supported

what is your budget, the asus z97-a or the msi z97 pc mate are really good ATX mobos

[MorbidAnge1]

19 hours ago, Jer45 said:

what is your budget, the asus z97-a or the msi z97 pc mate are really good ATX mobos

I actually was planning on getting that MSI board.