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Look for an used i7 4790, or 4790k

 

Going from a haswell i5, to a skylake i5 isn't too big of a jump to be worth the money,

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I want to upgrade from i5-4460 and I'm thinking about i5-6600k. Or maybe I should wait for kaby lake? I'm open to any other suggestions.

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Look for an used i7 4790, or 4790k

 

Going from a haswell i5, to a skylake i5 isn't too big of a jump to be worth the money,

 

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Kaby Lake is based on the same arcitecture as Skylake, so it wont have a huge performance increase.
But sometime the next months AMD will come with new high end CPUs, witch hopefully will make Intel drop their prices.
I would wait, but i dont know if it will be worth it.

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3 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Look for an used i7 4790, or 4790k

 

Going from a haswell i5, to a skylake i5 isn't too big of a jump to be worth the money,

If you want to upgrade to Skylake or Kabylake arc. you will need a new Mainboard and DDR4 witch will cost a bit. So getting an i7 fitting your board is a quite good idea.

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There honestly isn't anything worht upgrading to right now. A 4460 is still perfectly fine for gaming today. Only thing I would even consider upgrading to would be an i7 which is a bit overkill if you're only gaming. But going to a 6600k isn't worth it. You'd be spending $300+ just to get 10% more performance overall.

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2 minutes ago, Tom.JK said:

If you want to upgrade to Skylake or Kabylake arc. you will need a new Mainboard and DDR4 witch will cost a bit. So getting an i7 fitting your board is a quite good idea.

Yeah I was looking all day on motherboards and ram, and yeah I'd have to spend a lot of money. I would try find i7-4790k. Thanks you all for help :)

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