skylake Change to Skylake. Ok specs?

[hoaxy32]

Hi LTT Community. I'll start with a little bit of a back story first. My entire pc building history (12years) for my own personal rig, ive always been in the red corner. It's served me well for countless years. I've built countless Intel systems for friends, family and for other people via word of mouth, the last 3 - 4 years i've noticed intel platforms have a vast amount of new and improved feature sets than the opposing red team. I must clarify I'm not a "fan boy" of the red team, the blue team or the green team, I'm a avid supporter or technology itself and what it can offer. But in the recent years I've felt that I'm now looking for the newer enhanced features like m.2, DDR4 etc. So I've been looking into Skylake as a platform as its looks very solid. I won't be making the plunge just yet until I've seen reviews on new AMD products that will be released at some point, although mainly being APU based but we shall see. 

 

My current rig is heavily used for gaming and running my Plex Server.

Here's a quick rundown of what I'm coming from:

AMD FX8370

AMD Crosshair V Formula-Z

Corsair H100i

Crucial Tactical Tracer 4 x 4GB 1866Mhz

MSI Radeon R9 390 8G

Sandisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD

 

I'm going to be reusing some of what I already have like my case, cpu cooler, gpu, psu as they are all completely sufficient for the new build too. The parts I'm going to replace will be no doubt sold on unless I can find another use for them.

 

Heres the PC part picker link for the new parts I want to change to: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/99Ffr7

Budget is kind of flexible to a degree if other things need to be changed out and also do I need to go with an i7 or would the i5 variant be just as good. Only reason being the i7, as I host my plex server where many devices stream at once the thread count may come in handy there?

 

So if you guys have any better ideas or things I've missed then please let me know, I'm all ears

 

Thanks  

[comicsansms]

I'd wait till  AMD's and Intel's new CPU come out.

A FX 8370 is good enough.

[ChrisCross]

change to skylake the amd is over 4 years old now.

[don_svetlio]

Not worth at the moment. Wait for the new CPUs

[Tedol]

new Cpu will be Fall, so, if you want to wait for more 4-5 months, you can 

[hoaxy32]

7 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I'd wait till  AMD's and Intel's new CPU come out.

A FX 8370 is good enough.

It's still a great CPU yeah. I think I will see what both companies have to offer as you say.

3 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

change to skylake the amd is over 4 years old now.

It's very true, I just hope they come up with something competitive this year.

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Not worth at the moment. Wait for the new CPUs

Exactly what I was thinking.

[hoaxy32]

2 minutes ago, Tedol said:

new Cpu will be Fall, so, if you want to wait for more 4-5 months, you can 

Not to long to wait in the grand scheme of things.

[ChrisCross]

3 minutes ago, hoaxy32 said:

It's still a great CPU yeah. I think I will see what both companies have to offer as you say.

It's very true, I just hope they come up with something competitive this year.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

3 minutes ago, hoaxy32 said:

Not to long to wait in the grand scheme of things.

maybe zen will deliver something but for now its just sad what they are doing.

[hoaxy32]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

 

maybe zen will deliver something but for now its just sad what they are doing.

Yeah it confuses me why AMD have taken so long to implement the new technologys? I can see why they would try hit another niche of the market but if they neglect the higher end then they will get left behind and forgotten. But I have faith that they can keep the competition alive as minor as it may be.