Z97 VS Z87 Motherboard

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So right now I have a gtx 960 with an i5 on a asrock z97 anniversary. I want better OC capability,better power delivery and support for SLI because I will upgrade to i7-4790K and 980Ti (pascal edition) or 970 SLI (Pascal) and w/cool the cpu or maybe gpu too in the future.

Question is Since i dont care about s.express and M.2 should I go with Asus Z87-Pro (V Edition) which I found on a ridiculous price and it is freakin awesome designed and costs 112euro or giving a lot more money for Asrock z97 extreme 4 (150Euro)
 
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A single synthetic test doesn't properly show the performance difference, as it is a single synthetic test. That's why tech channels always use multiple benchmarks, both synthetic and real-world. Also remember that the 2550k was a great CPU at the time (pretty much as good as i5s got) while the 6400 is the lowest end Skylake i5 CPU available. It's like comparing the cheapest 2010 Volkswagen with a top notch 1990 Lamborghini. If you compare the 6600k with the 4690k or the 6700k with the 4790k you'll see the difference I'm talking about, especially in CPU-heavy games such as GTA V.

This is really up to you on whether you want to spend the extra money to have something newer, cooler, and more powerful.
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I didn't say obsolete, I said end of life which is very different. It looks like all future CPU generations will be using DDR4. If you have a choice why invest in something which will limit future upgrade options as it won't be supported. The performance difference between DDR4 & 3 is small but the future reuse options are very different in my opinion
 
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It's not just the memory though. The main Skylake CPUs (the i3s, i5s and i7s) generally perform about 10%+ better than their Haswell counterparts and produce less heat. Generally if you can spare the extra money Skylake would be preferable. If not Haswell is just fine. By the time you can't find DDR3 to upgrade the memory, a CPU upgrade will probably be in order as well.
 
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No, a 2500k doesn't perform like a 6400. To give you an example the 6400 has about 5-10% higher performance than the 4460 depending on what you're doing with it. This difference gets even bigger with the higher end CPUs, especially if you overclock.
 
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A single synthetic test doesn't properly show the performance difference, as it is a single synthetic test. That's why tech channels always use multiple benchmarks, both synthetic and real-world. Also remember that the 2550k was a great CPU at the time (pretty much as good as i5s got) while the 6400 is the lowest end Skylake i5 CPU available. It's like comparing the cheapest 2010 Volkswagen with a top notch 1990 Lamborghini. If you compare the 6600k with the 4690k or the 6700k with the 4790k you'll see the difference I'm talking about, especially in CPU-heavy games such as GTA V.

This is really up to you on whether you want to spend the extra money to have something newer, cooler, and more powerful.
 
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