Kaby Lake or not?

[MrAlbertrocks]

I've been told to wait for the i7 7700k instead of buying an 6700k right now, thing is, I've seen a lot of comments saying that there will be a negligible difference between both CPUs in terms of gaming, and Kaby Lake will probably drop around February, adding 2-3 months more until availability and prices settle (Remember gtx 1080 pricing?). I don't know if it's worth it waiting so long if the performance is going to be that similar. Plus, Black Friday and cyber Monday are right around the corner and i'm pretty sure i can get some good deals on the i7 6700k. 

 

What do you guys think?

[Energycore]

Get a 6700K today and live to tell about it!

[TheStigsChineseCousin]

If you're mostly doing gaming, I'd just go for the 6700k now, the difference won't be that great.  Heck, even an i5 works for gaming.  And for black friday/cyber monday, I don't think you'll see a huge price drop for the 6700k by itself (probably a bit of a discount though), but there will likely be some good bundle deals if you buy it with a cooler or motherboard.  

[Zyndo]

6 minutes ago, MrAlbertrocks said:

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I think if you don't need to upgrade now, then you may as well wait for Kaby... but if you need a PC now, then a 6700k is a fine choice as well. odds are that kaby is only going to be about 5-15% better anyway (probably a lot closer to 5 though) and seeing as how most games are GPU intensive and not CPU intensive, its extra headroom you won't get to make use of most of the time anyway.

 

but if you CAN wait, there isn't really any reason not to.

[MrAlbertrocks]

I can wait, but waiting 3-5 months for a 5-10% performance difference, probably 2-5 fps difference in games is not really worth it for me. Especially when i can get a 6700k for cheaper. I'll just wait for cyber monday and if there's no good deals on the CPU, i'll wait. 

[Zyndo]

2 minutes ago, MrAlbertrocks said:

I can wait, but waiting 3-5 months for a 5-10% performance difference, probably 2-5 fps difference in games is not really worth it for me. Especially when i can get a 6700k for cheaper. I'll just wait for cyber monday and if there's no good deals on the CPU, i'll wait. 

Its worth noting that the performance difference mentioned is the IPC difference... it assumes that skylake and kaby lake will run at the same frequencies. IF kaby lake turns out to be a better overclocking chip, then your performance boost may be a lot higher... and IF kaby lake turns out to be a worse OC'ing chip, then you may see no performance gains at all.

[ATrollAaaNnnnn]

I might be biased as I just bought my brother a 6700k. But from what ive heard ipc wise, there are like 1% gains? The true gains are supposedly from overclocking, so if your not pushing the clocks dont worry.

[smokefest]

Buy 6700k overclock to 4.5 or 4.6 ghz, beat stock kaby lakes. gg.

Want the best, buy 6700k sell it when kaby lake comes out, buy kaby lake.

who cares about money