Upgrade to Skylake or stay at i5 2500k ?

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Hey guys I'm wondering with the new Skylake CPU out should I upgrade from my OC i5 2500k @ 4.5 GHz.

I only am using my PC for gaming and very rarely for video encoding.

If I stay with i5 2500k I will save money by not having to buy another mobo, + DDR4 RAM and only then Skylake, but If there is boost in FPS I dont know should I go with Skylake.

Any suggestions ?
 
The 2500K is still a very good CPU today. As most games are not very CPU intensive, I don't think it would be worth upgrading. That money would be better spent on a better GPU.
 
as he said, if your just gamming spend it on gpu, remember the 2500k still out performs anything AMD can offer so you're still good.
 
I'd stay put and spend money on your graphics card / SSD - both! I myself was all ready to upgrade but was talked around, and the reviews upon Skylake's release supports their arguments. Made me fall in love with my trusty Sandy Bridge all over again! I think I'm going nowhere until I see first what Skylake-E can do.

Just posted this thread here that might be of interest to you as well? http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=860912#post860912
 
Hmm you might want to look up digital foundry on YouTube and look at them comparing both and more chips.

I've seen digital foundries videos comparing a few chips against the 6700K and they look really dodgy.

I'm thinking there's a little bit of cherry frosting going on with those as I ran the same games they did in their videos with a 4790K and also asked a few other people with the same CPU+GPU combo and DF's results are so off it spells "Marketing for Intel" to me.
 
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I've seen digital foundries videos comparing a few chips against the 6700K and they look really dodgy.

I'm thinking there's a little bit of cherry frosting going on with those as I ran the same games they did in their videos with a 4790K and also asked a few other people with the same CPU+GPU combo and DF's results are so off it spells "Marketing for Intel" to me.

No kidding! Interesting! I didn't consider them biased to be honest. So suppose you're right, what is the truth for Skylake vs older CPUs then...?
 
In gaming not a lot.

If you want a true upgrade then we're still going to have to wait until 10nm.

That, tentatively, or Skylake-E... Whatever the latter will be. Speaking of which, why will they release it so late after regular Skylake? Maybe because they're cut down Xeon parts which need to be released first?
 
That, tentatively, or Skylake-E... Whatever the latter will be. Speaking of which, why will they release it so late after regular Skylake? Maybe because they're cut down Xeon parts which need to be released first?

It's the same release schedule as all their X parts, they need to make sure all the cores are working etc.... :)

Xeon chips are usually different dies compared to the X chips AFAIK.
 
It's the same release schedule as all their X parts, they need to make sure all the cores are working etc.... :)

Xeon chips are usually different dies compared to the X chips AFAIK.

Makes sense! You'd think they'd release the x parts almost simultaneously, after all they fill a different market than the regular parts.

I thought Haswell-E were cut down Xeon chips? Would make sense too since the product is then already developed, maybe just needs different instruction sets and stuff disabled? Would like to run a Xeon sometime but think they might be tad worse in gaming, and the price puts me off.
 
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