Sandy Bridge to Skylake. Is it worth it?

[rooivalk]

I think he was referring to @mrthanhnguyen

oops sorry

 

[EarthDog]

I think he was referring to @mrthanhnguyen

Correct... if I was talking to someone else other than the post above mine, it would have been quoted (because that is how you use forums).

 

[RCoon]

X99 + 5820K is cheaper and equally as powerful as Skylake when both are mildly overclocked. I see zero reason for buying Skylake unless it's for the cheaper i5 based builds. Anyone looking for an i7 with the new hardware should just look to X99.

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[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

oops sorry

Correct... if I was talking to someone else other than the post above mine, it would have been quoted (because that is how you use forums).

All is good man.

X99 + 5820K is cheaper and equally as powerful as Skylake when both are mildly overclocked. I see zero reason for buying Skylake unless it's for the cheaper i5 based builds. Anyone looking for an i7 with the new hardware should just look to X99.

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Im actually not looking at an i7 as I dont necessarily have a need for one. Yeah I record videos (mainly Wow) and upload them to youtube from time to time (channel link below ) but I dont think needing the HT cores the i7 provides would really benefit me much outside of that.

 

[Enterprise24]

25% IPC increase (from HardOCP) I think not worth it. 5820K + cheap X99 is better root.

 

[Devon68]

cheap X99

Is there such a thing as a cheap X99? The cheapest mobo is 195$ , the cheapest cpu is 390$
I guess it depends where you are from but this is not cheap in my book.

 

[the54thvoid]

X99 + 5820K is cheaper and equally as powerful as Skylake when both are mildly overclocked. I see zero reason for buying Skylake unless it's for the cheaper i5 based builds. Anyone looking for an i7 with the new hardware should just look to X99.

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So, you are telling me to upgrade my aging 3930k build for an x99 one? Say, using MSI's Godlike mobo and a 5930? Aren't you? Aren't you! Say yes dammit!

When i come back my hols late Aug, it could be my post holiday come down pep me up.

Now what would I do with the old mobo, cpu and memory......

 

[RCoon]

So, you are telling me to upgrade my aging 3930k build for an x99 one? Say, using MSI's Godlike mobo and a 5930? Aren't you? Aren't you! Say yes dammit!

When i come back my hols late Aug, it could be my post holiday come down pep me up.

Now what would I do with the old mobo, cpu and memory......

Honestly, high end Skylake simply isn't worth the higher cost over X99. If you're looking for performance improvements from your current setup, X99 seems a reasonable choice, particularly given that Skylake is the tick. The tock isn't going to be that much better in brutal seriousness, so you'd be waiting another 24 months for another architecture to come along before upgrading to anything besides X99 becomes worthwhile.

With Intel's current (utterly moronic) pricing of the 6700K vs X99, highend Skylake is totally irrelevant. Unless you're on Sandybridge and buying the 6600K, I don't see any reason why anybody would choose that platform. Not until Intel readjusts pricing.

I mentioned elsewhere, I got my 4790 for less than £200. Intel is charging £320 (a full £40-50 more than a 5820K, it's equal) for the 6700K. God knows what fool is in charge of product pricing stacks.

 

[johnspack]

That's a nice cpu EarthDog, if I could pay 100 bucks or so for it like the x5650 I'm getting. Currently on sale here for $510. And I'd need a 300-400 dollar mobo.
http://www.ncix.com/detail/intel-core-i7-5820k-3-30ghz-3-6ghz-32-100097-1563.htm This is what I deal with up here..... Only way I look at it is, only 6 years
until I can afford a used Skylake-e octo xeon.....

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Honestly, high end Skylake simply isn't worth the higher cost over X99. If you're looking for performance improvements from your current setup, X99 seems a reasonable choice, particularly given that Skylake is the tick. The tock isn't going to be that much better in brutal seriousness, so you'd be waiting another 24 months for another architecture to come along before upgrading to anything besides X99 becomes worthwhile.

With Intel's current (utterly moronic) pricing of the 6700K vs X99, highend Skylake is totally irrelevant. Unless you're on Sandybridge and buying the 6600K, I don't see any reason why anybody would choose that platform. Not until Intel readjusts pricing.

I mentioned elsewhere, I got my 4790 for less than £200. Intel is charging £320 (a full £40-50 more than a 5820K, it's equal) for the 6700K. God knows what fool is in charge of product pricing stacks.

In my case if I were to go Skylake, it would be the 6600k. So youre saying you see it being worthwhile? (at least in my case)

 

[johnspack]

If I had what you have, and had the money, I'd upgrade. It will be faster, I'd say 20% at least. Dam. So long until I can afford this stuff....

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Didn't vote, but I'd say no. I'm still waiting to upgrade to sb-e, which will probably do me for a few more years. Unless Skylake can magically hit 5ghz over Hawell's 4.2 ish, I'd wait.

If I had what you have, and had the money, I'd upgrade. It will be faster, I'd say 20% at least. Dam. So long until I can afford this stuff....

Im confused.

 

[johnspack]

I need more cores for what I do. I don't game. I messed up on my first comment. Also didn't look at the fact you only have a 2500k. This new cpu is definately faster. If you are willing to do the mobo and ram upgrade
it will most definitely be faster. I have to do everything in the cheap zone, so sometimes I give bad advice.....

 

[RCoon]

In my case if I were to go Skylake, it would be the 6600k. So youre saying you see it being worthwhile? (at least in my case)

Definitely

 

[Space Lynx]

My 2500k at 4.8ghz 24/7 has never been using all 4 cores at 100% except in guild wars 2, and with directx12 future games making cpu work even easier, I am holding on to my sandy bridge until summer 2017 10nm.

So like erocker says, depends what you do with your pc if its worth upgrading, most of the games I play just want a nice and powerful gpu. I plan to upgrade my 290 to pascal next summer/fall. Will be fun xD

 

[EarthDog]

Definitely

Its what Ananad said in its article...

 

[tacosRcool]

I don't think it is worth it even after reading the article. I know I'll be keeping my 2700k for a generation or two.

 

[radrok]

So, you are telling me to upgrade my aging 3930k build for an x99 one? Say, using MSI's Godlike mobo and a 5930? Aren't you? Aren't you! Say yes dammit!

When i come back my hols late Aug, it could be my post holiday come down pep me up.

Now what would I do with the old mobo, cpu and memory......

5930 isn't worth it, either get the 5820k or the 5960x

 

[Slizzo]

Voted yes with a caveat.

If you're doing multi GPU, Skylake performs quite a bit better than Sandy Bridge. Otherwise gains are small, yes.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Well I vote not... Especially for SB-E users... the i5 SB users are the only ones needing upgrade albeit not the K users... the upgrade should only be for those using locked chips at low frequencies. As the Skylake is already clocked high, the single core IPC will give a real boost. But for us enthusiasts who does the OC by themselves... no, not yet... Let one more chipset generation pass. At least PCIE4, as the new cards GPU will be different animals.

I don't understand why some bash the X79?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I guess we will soon find out. I bit the bullet. Ordered an i5 6600k, Asus Z170-A motherboard, and some G.Skill DDR4 3200 (when it comes in stock). Motherboard will be here tomorrow. Just have to wait for everything else to come in stock which will probably be tomorrow as I think the hard launch for Skylake is tomorrow.

Now the question is, what benchmarks do you guys want to see comparing the i5 2500k (oc and stock) and the i5 6600k (oc and stock)? I may only end up doing stock first due to the fact it will take some time to find a stable OC.

 

[Devon68]

I would like to see: Cinebench R15 (old vs new cpu) and Unigene Valey Benchmark 1.0 on ultra as well as Unigene Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on ultra (old vs new cpu) even if unigene is more gpu dependent I want to see if changing the cpu would help.

 

[EarthDog]

We ran Cine 15 against 4770K/6700K @ 4.9Ghz...edit... it was R10 and R11.5... sorry.

(~6% and 9% difference in favor of the 6700K)

 

[jboydgolfer]

im running an i5 2500k, and although im uncertain of what increase in Performance I would get from the upgrade, I can go VERY close to 5Ghz 24/7 on this chip Simply by increasing My Multiplier, so with that %20 or so increase, I see Absolutely no reason to upgrade.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

im running an i5 2500k, and although im uncertain of what increase in Performance I would get from the upgrade, I can go VERY close to 5Ghz 24/7 on this chip Simply by increasing My Multiplier, so with that %20 or so increase, I see Absolutely no reason to upgrade.

youre very lucky then to hit 5GHz because next to no one can without some mass cooling.