Hello I am going to do a Skylake build and I am kind of holding off until the sales come round I'm not quite ready to pull the trigger yet. I was gonna do a build on the i5 6600 or 6500 but the 6400 is only £130 now so I am very tempted to order it right now but its only 2.7ghz and I don't know the benchmarks between the i5 range if it would be worth it or not. I will be using this computer for gaming civ5, starcraft2, dark souls 3 etc programming, light image creation i.e. gimp. I also want this cpu to last at least 5 years
Is there much difference between the i5 6400 and the 6600?
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I play a lot of civ V.
It is single threaded and can take a long time between turns with lots of city states.
I think, though, it would be reasonable to start with a 6400 so long as you use a Z170 motherboard.
That way, you can sell the 6400 in favor of a i5-6600K with an overclock, or more likely a kaby lake successor.
5 years is a long time. By then, there will be better price/performing options.
You only need to upgrade when your current rig is not doing the job.
It is single threaded and can take a long time between turns with lots of city states.
I think, though, it would be reasonable to start with a 6400 so long as you use a Z170 motherboard.
That way, you can sell the 6400 in favor of a i5-6600K with an overclock, or more likely a kaby lake successor.
5 years is a long time. By then, there will be better price/performing options.
You only need to upgrade when your current rig is not doing the job.
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i5-6600 and i5-6600K are distinct chips.
Oddly I have seen the price of the i5-6600 to be often cheaper then the i5-6500, but those chips are only 100Mhz apart. The 6400 is significantly lower clocked at 2.7Ghz. Overall the reduction in IPC won't have a huge impact on performance. But if you can afford either of the faster chips, go for it.
-edit had those chips in the wrong order, go brain!
Oddly I have seen the price of the i5-6600 to be often cheaper then the i5-6500, but those chips are only 100Mhz apart. The 6400 is significantly lower clocked at 2.7Ghz. Overall the reduction in IPC won't have a huge impact on performance. But if you can afford either of the faster chips, go for it.
-edit had those chips in the wrong order, go brain!
I was originally going to go with a 6600 non k or 6500 so don't mind paying the extra 20 or 30 for one of them. So just go with the faster chips then since there would be a fairly noticeable difference if not now but in a few years time?
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500Mhz is a significant jump. Kind of like the overclock a K chip would get over a stock chip.
It is the case of best return on investment. The way things are going with Intel, LGA1151 will be a short lived socket, if not the last consumer grade socket. Given the IPC differences from SB, IB, Haswell, and Skylake, even a 7th generation chip that plugs into a board you buy today will only be %5-10 increase. If you get the 6500 or 6600 now you have that 10% over the 6400 already and don't have to mess with it. (Example numbers, would really need to see some comprehensive benchmarks to get some exact figures) (So the theoretical i5-7400 would be on par with a i5-6600 in the future)
Though the point about getting a Z series board is a good one. If in the future you feel the need for more performance but don't want to buy a new platform, you could conceivably drop in a 7th gen K series (if supported) and run that.
However, that is kind of what I hoped for Broadwell and Z87, but that didn't turn out to be compatible or useful due to the Broadwell design. My particular CPU isn't a great overclocker, requires far too much voltage and I had hoped to replace it. Now I am holding out for gen 7 in all likelihood. Or Skylake-E.
It is the case of best return on investment. The way things are going with Intel, LGA1151 will be a short lived socket, if not the last consumer grade socket. Given the IPC differences from SB, IB, Haswell, and Skylake, even a 7th generation chip that plugs into a board you buy today will only be %5-10 increase. If you get the 6500 or 6600 now you have that 10% over the 6400 already and don't have to mess with it. (Example numbers, would really need to see some comprehensive benchmarks to get some exact figures) (So the theoretical i5-7400 would be on par with a i5-6600 in the future)
Though the point about getting a Z series board is a good one. If in the future you feel the need for more performance but don't want to buy a new platform, you could conceivably drop in a 7th gen K series (if supported) and run that.
However, that is kind of what I hoped for Broadwell and Z87, but that didn't turn out to be compatible or useful due to the Broadwell design. My particular CPU isn't a great overclocker, requires far too much voltage and I had hoped to replace it. Now I am holding out for gen 7 in all likelihood. Or Skylake-E.
Thanks for replying. I think I will just go for the 6500 or 6600 non k. I don't plan on doing any overclocking so will just go for a normal board. My laptop was running a low 1st gen i5 and managed fine for being 5 years old just couldnt run games on it because of igpu. It packed in hence why I am building a pc. But today a desktop 1st gen i5 still holds up fairly well in games for being 5 or so years old so hopefully if I do go skylake it will last that long, if not will take it from there. Its just hard pulling the trigger knowing something new is always coming out but not knowing what the future holds.
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