Intel skylake prices?

[Shaqtin]

Hey everybody, I am looking to upgrade my cpu, I am on the 1151 socket at the moment. My question is will the price of skylake cpus go down when kaby lake is introduced? Should I wait for kaby lake to come out or should I just get a skylake i5 6500 now? 

Cheers people

Shaqtin

[Fungal]

Wait for kabylake bc skylake prices should be pretty much the same except probably on like ebay

[Matu20]

5 minutes ago, Shaqtin said:

Hey everybody, I am looking to upgrade my cpu, I am on the 1151 socket at the moment. My question is will the price of skylake cpus go down when kaby lake is introduced? Should I wait for kaby lake to come out or should I just get a skylake i5 6500 now? 

Cheers people

Shaqtin

No they won't.

[aisle9]

7 minutes ago, Shaqtin said:

Hey everybody, I am looking to upgrade my cpu, I am on the 1151 socket at the moment. My question is will the price of skylake cpus go down when kaby lake is introduced? Should I wait for kaby lake to come out or should I just get a skylake i5 6500 now? 

Cheers people

Shaqtin

The price of Haswell CPUs is basically unchanged since Skylake came out. Higher-end i7s actually cost a little more. If you're fine hanging onto the CPU you have now for another several months, wait for Kaby Lake. If you want to upgrade now, don't feel bad about it. Kaby Lake parts will be very expensive for a while after launch, and the gains over Skylake are probably not going to be insane.