CPU Decisions Help

[Fyfey96]

Hey All.

I built my PC about 5 Years ago. The specs were as follows -

Asus M5A97 Pro Motherboard
AMD FX-4100 CPU
8GB 2X4GB 1600mhz G.Skills Ripjaws
Powercool 650W PSU
Sapphire HD6770 1GB
Seagate 7200RPM HDD 500GB & 2TB
All in a Coolermaster HAF922 case


Recently I have added/ replaced the following -

Added 2X4GB 1600mhz G.Skills Ripjaws (16GB total)
Added Samsung 650 Evo 120GB SSD
Replaced GPU with Asus R9 290 4GB
Replace PSU with HX750i
Added H80i GT

I have changed most of it except the CPU & Motherboard. But I want to go Intel. But I'm not sure what CPU will suite me. I am looking at the Maximus Hero VII for the motherboard. I play games obviously but I also use Adobe Premire pro and after effects a bit and hopefully will a bit more. I don't use it too seriously but I need some help deciding what CPU would be best. I Want good Value but don't need to be a cheapo
I also intend to build it into a Corsair 750D.

Thanks for help
Ally

 

[cooperman]

You will be better off going for a haswell i5 if your looking for a cheaper end cpu that makes sence oc'ing it pulls miles ahead of the AM3+ platform and the AMD AM3+ platform is dead.

 

[Fyfey96]

You will be better off going for a haswell i5 if your looking for a cheaper end cpu that makes sence oc'ing it pulls miles ahead of the AM3+ platform and the AMD AM3+ platform is dead.

Im not to fussed about cheap. Just value. What about i7 options?

 

[Wraith]

I still have my old FX4100, good chip. The i5 4440 I have at the moment beats it into the ground, almost 2 fold in some benches and that's saying something, when you take price and frequency into consideration.

FX4100 @4.0Ghz (Overclocked) £80
vs
i5 4440 3.2Ghz (stock) £144

Personally I'd go with an i5 for now then wait a few months to see the next generation.

 

[Fyfey96]

Okay sounds good man. Will new Gen work with the same socket?

 

[cooperman]

Okay sounds good man. Will new Gen work with the same socket?

No skylake is LGA 1151 (haswell is 1150 skylake cpu's need a extra pin slot on the socket)
It maybe worth waiting for skylake cpu's if you are building soon but honestly i dont expect them to be much faster skylake is more about power saveing than performance there maybe a %2-4 performance increase between the old gen and the new gen and i am hearing yealds are not that good for skylake so thay maybe in short supply on relese.

 

[Fyfey96]

Okay. I thought the i5 will be good enough. Just didn't know how much of a benifit the i7 would bring to the video editing

 

[cooperman]

Lower scores are better.

 

[Wraith]

No skylake is LGA 1151 (haswell is 1150 skylake cpu's need a extra pin slot on the socket)
It maybe worth waiting for skylake cpu's if you are building soon but honestly i dont expect them to be much faster skylake is more about power saveing than performance there maybe a %2-4 performance increase between the old gen and the new gen and i am hearing yealds are not that good for skylake so thay maybe in short supply on relese.

^This.

A performance yeald of only 2 - 4% and no drop in current prices, I'd stick with 2011 I know it's a 2 year old socket and coming to its end, but great CPUs in the socket range, which should see us happily until Kaby Lake.

 

[NeverBackDown]

No skylake is LGA 1151 (haswell is 1150 skylake cpu's need a extra pin slot on the socket)
It maybe worth waiting for skylake cpu's if you are building soon but honestly i dont expect them to be much faster skylake is more about power saveing than performance there maybe a %2-4 performance increase between the old gen and the new gen and i am hearing yealds are not that good for skylake so thay maybe in short supply on relese.

Not entirely true.

More efficient, of course, but performance? It'll be the biggest overall jump we have had from intel in a while. Now on desktops, we see the least performance gains, but we still will probably get around 12% in ST/MT tasks overall. However in the lower power variants they will see quite large increases. For every variant however, the iGPU's are getting massive performance increases. And i do mean massive. So overall, it's the biggest jump we have had and rumored for an August 5th reveal. So it's not far off. No point in waiting for Kabylake, it'll be 14nm and launch 2H 2016. No point in CannonLake at 10m, it got delayed further and won't even come until 2017. It's worth waiting for Skylake, nothing else. Skylake will most likely have limited supply so it's a matter of wait or get what's available now.