But I don't buy gear "speculatively" in the hopes that somebody will buy it off me...
*cough* "a bad habit, trying to break it" *cough*.
I just get the "urge to build" a little more often than you folks do. I guess it's like the "one night stand" of PC building. You'all are urging me to go all-in, on a high-end PC marriage for five years. I'm more interested in new experiences every month, LOL.
I
may have someone to do a budget build for, this or next month. I
sort of used that as my excuse to get my feet wet on SKL.
I am a bit personally curious, how a 3.3Ghz SKL dual-core, with DDR4-2133 compares with a Haswell G3258 (at both stock, and OCed to 4.0Ghz) with DDR3-1333.
Plus, I haven't been 100% happy with the G3258 since I flashed the BIOS to F6, and found out I could nearly effortlessly clock higher than before. (Before was 3.6Ghz, wasn't fully stable at 3.8Ghz, wouldn't boot Win7 at higher than that reliably. After was 4.0Ghz, could boot Win7 at 4.2Ghz. But it doesn't seem fully distributed-computing stable, even after cranking the vcore from 1.200v to 1.300v.)
Edit: Don't get me wrong. I am in no way unhappy with the performance of my G3258, per se, rather it's the stability at 4.0Ghz that bothers me. I like 100% rock-stable rigs, that could run OCCT's PSU Test 24/7 for months on end. (Prime95 + Furmark instead, if you like.)
It bothers me that my main rig reboots about once every 2-3 weeks.
My other G3258, I've kept on the factory F5 BIOS, and it only clocked to 3.6Ghz stable. So far it hasn't crashed, but one time, the 7950 went wonky completely at idle.
Most sites, when G3258 non-Z OCing was covered, got their samples up to 4.3-4.5Ghz or more. But they weren't doing distributed computing, either, for weeks on end. So I think that they weren't truly stable (talking month-long Prime95 stable here) at those clocks. Sure, it will boot Windows, and run a game or benchmark or two... but I still think that they sensationalized the G3258 a bit more than maybe they should have, as far as clock speeds go.
I'm hoping that the G4400, at stock clocks, will be rock-solid stable, and at least competitive in performance to my G3258 @ 3.6Ghz.
Not to mention, most newer mobo BIOSes for non-Z boards disabled the OCing feature for this CPU, as per Intel "demands".