No non "K" series gaming benchmarks for skylake?

[justin4pack]

Just wondering for gaming performance what the better option is. I have a 280x that will be moving over to the upgrade. So could the 3.5ghz g4500 work? or i3-6100 or the i5-6500? i wont be overclocking.

 

[lyssword]

some tests: http://pclab.pl/art66130-11.html

 

[Kenmitch]

Probably be OK with i3 or better.

 

[Joepublic2]

I'd stay away from the Pentium. A dual core with with no hyper threading is going to have serious performance issues with newer games/engines. The i3 is well worth the extra $$. 4C/4T would be best, though.

 

[Ken g6]

I've heard the i5-6500 is comparable to an i5-4690. [thread=2452438]Eurogamer[/thread] compares the i3-6100 to an i5-2500. And that's before any bclk overclocking.

 

[lyssword]

http://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test...um_g4400_najtanszy_skylake_na_rynku?page=0,12

 

[AtenRa]

If you can spend more for the Core i5 and you OC as well it will be way better than the Core i3 OC or not. I will not even thing about pairing the Pentium with that GPU.

 

[MongGrel]

I've heard the i5-6500 is comparable to an i5-4690. [thread=2452438]Eurogamer[/thread] compares the i3-6100 to an i5-2500. And that's before any bclk overclocking.

I'm not interesting in upgrading myself atm, bit it is interesting to see what the bclk overclocking in some of the newer Xeon boards are doing. I'm used to it myself buy now, was messing around earlier and have the X5680 in here at 4.7 now.

Some of those ASUS and ASrock motherboards on the reviews front page look pretty interesting if I were building atm.

I know little to nothing about the newer Xeons though.

I doubt an i3 would be the way to go for gaming if the OP isn't going to OC it though.

 

[justin4pack]

I went with the i5-6400 and a z series board that offers sky OC for non k cpu's. Will post up what kind of clocks I get when I get the parts

 

[escrow4]

I went with the i5-6400 and a z series board that offers sky OC for non k cpu's. Will post up what kind of clocks I get when I get the parts

Bad idea. 2.7GHz base to max boost 3.3GHz is just poor. The 6500 starts at 3.2GHz and can max boost all cores to 3.6GHz. Since this is locked 300MHz for a bit more is well worth it.

 

[justin4pack]

This is what I'm hoping for http://www.asrock.com/news/index.asp?id=3132 I know ymmv

 

[AtenRa]

Bad idea. 2.7GHz base to max boost 3.3GHz is just poor. The 6500 starts at 3.2GHz and can max boost all cores to 3.6GHz. Since this is locked 300MHz for a bit more is well worth it.

ehm he got a Z board to OC the cpu via BCLK.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Bad idea. 2.7GHz base to max boost 3.3GHz is just poor. The 6500 starts at 3.2GHz and can max boost all cores to 3.6GHz. Since this is locked 300MHz for a bit more is well worth it.

Yeah, but if all SKL CPUs OC to roughly the same point (4.2-4.3Ghz), why spend more than you have to on the CPU?

(I assume that he plans to BCLK OC his CPU.)

I've got the parts to BCLK OC my G4400, but I haven't yet, haven't felt the motivation, with the Holidays, sorry people.