Quick upgrade question.

[Xeenos]

Hello,

 

I'm going to be purchasing a Corsair Obsidian 250D and I would be required to purchase a new board. Instead of buying a mITX socket 1150 board (as I'm currently using a i7-4970K CPU), I figured I should just upgrade to a i7-6700. My questions are, should I just wait till Kaby Lake is released, go ahead with the skylake upgrade or just buy a new motherboard that supports my current CPU? Any help would be appreciated. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

The 4790K is still a very capable CPU. I would wait until new CPUs are released if you're not in a rush to get the new case. It's a good opportunity to upgrade the motherboard though, as you're going to need to when switching to Skylake/Kabylake anyway. Still, the performance increase from a 4790K to a 6700 is small, so I'd wait. RAM will need changing too, unless you're going for a DDR3(L) LGA1151 board. 

[The_Denks]

2 minutes ago, Xeenos said:

Hello,

 

I'm going to be purchasing a Corsair Obsidian 250D and I would be required to purchase a new board. Instead of buying a mITX socket 1150 board (as I'm currently using a i7-4970K CPU), I figured I should just upgrade to a i7-6700. My questions are, should I just wait till Kaby Lake is released, go ahead with the skylake upgrade or just buy a new motherboard that supports my current CPU? Any help would be appreciated. 

The difference between the flagship Skylake and Kaby Lake mainstream CPU's will not be enough to jsutify the price premium for the new generation.

 

I would get the 6600K if you want to save money, but if you are going to get an 6700, get the K variant, otherwise you cant overclock.

 

If im not mistaken, Kaby Lake uses a new motherboard socket, which will also drive up prices for new motherboards, probably cost you an extra 100-150$ for the new generation of CPU's.

 

Anyway, CPU's dont have that much of an change from generation to generation. Its a rather slow climb, unlike GPU's