6500 build vs 4690 build

[trentklein]

Hi everyone, I have a system that needs a cpu upgrade. Motherboard and CPU (fx6350) aside, my current build is; a 850w evga supernova, 4x4 sticks of gskill sniper 16gb 1866 ram, XFX 290 watercooled via the g10, and a Seddon 240m for the cpu. Which would be best price per performance including new ram for skylake and mobo for both, the 6500 or 4690? Thanks!

[Enderman]

6500, unless for some reason its ridiculously more expensive than the 4690 where you live.

[79wjd]

i5-6400 if it's decently cheaper than a 6500 (all four cores boost to just 200mhz below the 6500: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005647.html), otherwise, 6500. 

[Techicolors]

if you're fine with replacing your RAM with DDR4, go ahead and get a 6600

[wackywobbler]

6500 for the reasons stated above and the ddr4 RAM + skylake motherboard that goes along with it is better for future upgrading

[trentklein]

Wow thanks for all of the replies! I mainly just want to keep the cost down, and if I can get skylake with the ram for cheaper I would be totally fine with it.

[aisle9]

4 minutes ago, trentklein said:

Hi everyone, I have a system that needs a cpu upgrade. Motherboard and CPU (fx6350) aside, my current build is; a 850w evga supernova, 4x4 sticks of gskill sniper 16gb 1866 ram, XFX 290 watercooled via the g10, and a Seddon 240m for the cpu. Which would be best price per performance including new ram for skylake and mobo for both, the 6500 or 4690? Thanks!

6500 would be my choice. Nothing about Haswell is transferable into the future, whereas Skylake's DDR4 RAM will be the standard for several years to come. The 1151 socket will stand through Kaby Lake, giving you a clear upgrade path if you want an i7 in a year. Beyond that, the 6500 is arguably the best bargain in high performance processors today. The i5-6400 is overpriced for the speed it offers, and the -6600 just doesn't make sense unless you're going for the K variant.

 

Seriously though, i5-6500. It's a stud CPU if you don't need an i7 and you don't want to blow an extra $125-150 on a Z170 motherboard and a 6600K.

[trentklein]

7 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

6500 would be my choice. Nothing about Haswell is transferable into the future, whereas Skylake's DDR4 RAM will be the standard for several years to come. The 1151 socket will stand through Kaby Lake, giving you a clear upgrade path if you want an i7 in a year. Beyond that, the 6500 is arguably the best bargain in high performance processors today. The i5-6400 is overpriced for the speed it offers, and the -6600 just doesn't make sense unless you're going for the K variant.

 

Seriously though, i5-6500. It's a stud CPU if you don't need an i7 and you don't want to blow an extra $125-150 on a Z170 motherboard and a 6600K.

Thanks! I will go with the 6500. Just need to find a decent cheap mobo with enough fan headers.

[aisle9]

6 minutes ago, trentklein said:

Thanks! I will go with the 6500. Just need to find a decent cheap mobo with enough fan headers.

There's an MSI B150 PC Mate mobo on Amazon for $80. My wife just built an i7-6700 rig with it. Plenty of fan headers, very easy to work with.

[79wjd]

16 minutes ago, trentklein said:

Thanks! I will go with the 6500. Just need to find a decent cheap mobo with enough fan headers.

Literally any LGA1151 board is fine. And you can get a $5 fan splitter, so I wouldn't worry about fan headers. 

8 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

There's an MSI B150 PC Mate mobo on Amazon for $80. My wife just built an i7-6700 rig with it. Plenty of fan headers, very easy to work with.

There are also plenty of good H110 boards for like $50 that don't sacrifice anything really important considering he's trying to save money. 

[aisle9]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

There are also plenty of good H110 boards for like $50 that don't sacrifice anything really important considering he's trying to save money. 

H110 boards frequently come short on SATA ports, RAM slots and fan headers. I don't like making compromises like that in a performance rig, locked CPU or not. It's a matter of personal preference, I suppose.

[79wjd]

Just now, aisle9 said:

H110 boards frequently come short on SATA ports, RAM slots and fan headers. I don't like making compromises like that in a performance rig, locked CPU or not. It's a matter of personal preference, I suppose.

Most people need 2 sata ports at most and basically all H110 boards come with at least 4. 2 RAM slots is enough for 16gb (technically 32gb), so that's not much of a limiting factor for most people (especially those on a really tight budget), and fan headers can be supplemented with a $5 pwm splitter. 

[arnavvr]

2 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Most people need 2 sata ports at most and basically all H110 boards come with at least 4. 2 RAM slots is enough for 16gb (technically 32gb), so that's not much of a limiting factor for most people (especially those on a really tight budget), and fan headers can be supplemented with a $5 pwm splitter. 

Yeah,  my friend has a H110 rig I built him with a 6400, great little pc. 

[trentklein]

5 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Most people need 2 sata ports at most and basically all H110 boards come with at least 4. 2 RAM slots is enough for 16gb (technically 32gb), so that's not much of a limiting factor for most people (especially those on a really tight budget), and fan headers can be supplemented with a $5 pwm splitter. 

Works perfect because I forgot that my case, the nzxt h440, has a fan hub