upgrade from sandy bridge (2500K) game computer (skylake or haswell)

[you2]

I'm thinking of upgrading my sand bridge (2500K) game compute and the question is skylake or haswell refresh for single gpu solution. If I went with haswell refresh I could reuse my ram; it was not clear to me if skylake or haswell refresh ddr3 was faster for games fron anandtech benchmarks (they seem to comment on some bottleneck or latency to the gpu).

The gpu will likely be a nvidia gtx 980 (but maybe the new amd solution). Time frame will likely be blackfriday.
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I couldn't really tell if skylake offer much of a benefit (for a non-gpu solution it seems to have a faster gpu than haswell).
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I'll likely go with i5 for games (i7 doesn't seem to offer much benefit and my hobby i7 refersh runs bloody hot which seems to be a common problem with that cpu).

 

[dave_the_nerd]

For the money, you're better off just upgrading your GPU and banking the difference for the next upgrade. It's not that the new chips aren't faster, but they're not faster enough to make a huge different in gaming, especially if you overclock (which I'm assuming you do, since you have a 2500K and not doing so would be sacrilegious.)

 

[you2]

Well my 1155 motherboard has a few issues I'd like to resolve; I suppose I could look for another 1155 motherboard but the system is around 5 years old so I thought maybe during black-friday It would be a good time to re-assemble it.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Ah, I see.

1155 motherboards are hard to find new, though. If you've actually got a malfunctioning build, it's probably safer to build new and sell the old parts if you can.

 

[you2]

That was my thought; but it begs the question should I target haswell refresh, skylake or whicheverr is cheaper at time of purchase 🙂

Ah, I see.

1155 motherboards are hard to find new, though. If you've actually got a malfunctioning build, it's probably safer to build new and sell the old parts if you can.

 

[therealnickdanger]

That was my thought; but it begs the question should I target haswell refresh, skylake or whicheverr is cheaper at time of purchase 🙂

I think the only upgrade worth your attention at this point is Skylake. Haswell is great, but Skylake is the newest/best. Depending on the mobo you choose, you can reuse your DDR3 or move to DDR4.

For what it's worth, I recently bought an open box ASRock Z77 Extreme4 for $60. It works great and OCs without issue. So if you really just want to alleviate your mobo problems, try to go that route and ride the upgrade train later after some of this Windows 10/DX12 dust settles.

 

[Yuriman]

I think the only upgrade worth your attention at this point is Skylake. Haswell is great, but Skylake is the newest/best. Depending on the mobo you choose, you can reuse your DDR3 or move to DDR4.

For what it's worth, I recently bought an open box ASRock Z77 Extreme4 for $60. It works great and OCs without issue. So if you really just want to alleviate your mobo problems, try to go that route and ride the upgrade train later after some of this Windows 10/DX12 dust settles.

I don't think you can use 1.5v DDR3 with Skylake, and definitely not 1.65v.

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My vote is for Skylake too, but I picked up my Zotac Z77 board on eBay for <$25.

 

[piasabird]

A 2500k might make someone a nice HTPC. I have one in an INTEL Brand Z68 MB I think. It has no video card though. I only use it to watch stuff on websites like YouTube and HULU. I dont do mush gaming. It just keeps on running fine. I used an i-3 4330 on my upstairs computer. These Intel i-5's often outlast the motherboard.

I saw something about some some Haswell IRIS CPU's coming out. Kind of late to even make those in a desktop CPU. Someone probably is interested in them.

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-anal...gher-speeds-and-iris-pro-graphics-269301.html

The i-5 5575R has iris 6200 graphics for $244. Doesn't mean much if you plan on using a video card. I guess this will be for sale soon.

 

[you2]

This is a game machine so I will be using a gtx 980 or fury; not sure which yet.