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Worth waiting for Kaby Lake?

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AndyD2k

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I recently upgraded my video card to a 1080 and now feel like I might as well upgrade the rest since I can donate my current pc to my sister.

Anyway, I'm a little torn on what to do since Kaby Lake is around the corner. It seems like performance wise it shouldn't make much of a difference. Does it make sense to wait? Are there any features that it may have that might be of interest?

I also thought of getting a prior gen 6 core but not sure if I want to spend the additional money for the CPU / board
 
Some desktop KabyLake CPU's (scheduled for release in early 2017) should be compatible with desktop Skylake chipset motherboards, via bios firmware update. AFAIK, the only advantage of KabyLake vs. Skylake chipset is probably related to how Thunderbolt, USB 3.1 & USB Type C ports are handled: natively, instead of requiring separate controller chips. Not 100% sure about that, however.
So potentially, one could do a Skylake system build now, and later on upgrade only the CPU to KabyLake, and keep the same Skylake motherboard.
 
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There would be little point though. I'm not sure how much is firm fact, but AFAIK Kaby is Skylake on a very slightly more mature 14nm process, and will have higher stock clocks, much like Haswell Refresh vs Haswell.
 
I'm more interested if the HDMI on Kaby Lake is 2.0(a/b/whatever), and if they will drop into existing Skylake motherboards, and automagically upgrade the HDMI output port to 2.0. Such as H110 boards with HDMI outputs, like the ASRock DeskMini STX board.
 
VirtualLarry said:
I'm more interested if the HDMI on Kaby Lake is 2.0(a/b/whatever), and if they will drop into existing Skylake motherboards, and automagically upgrade the HDMI output port to 2.0. Such as H110 boards with HDMI outputs, like the ASRock DeskMini STX board.
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Maybe? depending on the HDMI implementation.. . if all the HDMI/HDCP is one on the cpu and the motherboard is only a physical link

still early morning and have not had my coffee yet, but based on this article http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/10/ps4-hdr-no-games-media-useless/ talking about the PS4 hdmi controller it might. The two links in the 2nd paragraph goes into more details
 
AndyD2k said:
I recently upgraded my video card to a 1080 and now feel like I might as well upgrade the rest since I can donate my current pc to my sister.

Anyway, I'm a little torn on what to do since Kaby Lake is around the corner. It seems like performance wise it shouldn't make much of a difference. Does it make sense to wait? Are there any features that it may have that might be of interest?

I also thought of getting a prior gen 6 core but not sure if I want to spend the additional money for the CPU / board
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I would wait for Kaby Lake it has a higher clock speed. Have you overclocked the i5 2500k? How do you like the 1080 and what games do you play?
 
Yea, originally I would have said it was not worth waiting. Now it is looking like KL may be worth waiting for if planning an upgrade from a SB/IB or older system. Certainly KL will not merit an upgrade from anything Haswell or newer, but if planning to upgrade, I would wait and get a slightly improved process and better decoding features.
 
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