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Was it a bad idea to have bought an LGA 1150 compatible board, with intell's newest skylake processors sporting an LGA 1151 socket type... effectively limiting myself to older processors?

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No - 1150 also supports Broadwell. Both Broadwell and Haswell are good chips

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"NO SKYLAKE FOR YOU"

 

But seriously, the i7-4790k is still a perfectly fine CPU.  Faster than Skylake in some benchmarks.  You can put one on your LGA1150 board.

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I agree, I think that it will be a perfectly acceptable chipset for my needs... thank you

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It depends on your applications, man.

 

Personally, I think the i7-4790 is an amazing chip, even without overclocking. Just laughs in the face of pretty much anything.

 

Unless you're in the e-peen game, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with, "Last-gen" hardware. It's still going to be relevant for another good 10-15 years... maybe even longer.

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I have a i7 4790k myself and can say that is cheap is a monster. It barely gets over 30% cpu usage while gaming, even cpu heavy titles like city skylines

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