Cheap out(haswell) or top out budget(skylake)

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cheapbloke

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Hey so i had a question about upgrading my ancient pc which has these specs:Intel core 2 duo 2.33ghz
Asus geforce 9600gt
2gb ddr2
500w power supply
Upgrades planned:
GTX 750ti FTW
I3 4170 or 6100
H81m or h110m-s2h motherboard
DDR3 or DDR4 RAM 4gb
So should i get a skylake i3 and top out my budget or get a haswell one and a gtx 950?
 
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Solandri
For a desktop, there isn't much difference between Haswell and Skylake. Broadwell was a die shrink of Haswell from 22nm to 14nm, which reduced power consumption. Skylake was an architectural redesign which boosted speed per clock about 5% over Haswell/Broadwell, as well as reduced power consumption some more.

So really all Skylake gets you over Haswell is a negligible speed increase, about 25% power savings (mostly irrelevant on a desktop), substantially faster integrated 3D graphics (irrelevant if you're adding a GPU), and DDR4 and USB 3.1 support. Unless you have a pressing need for the last two or you plan to be running the CPU at 100% for extended periods of time (in which case the power savings translates into $$ of electricity...
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For a desktop, there isn't much difference between Haswell and Skylake. Broadwell was a die shrink of Haswell from 22nm to 14nm, which reduced power consumption. Skylake was an architectural redesign which boosted speed per clock about 5% over Haswell/Broadwell, as well as reduced power consumption some more.

So really all Skylake gets you over Haswell is a negligible speed increase, about 25% power savings (mostly irrelevant on a desktop), substantially faster integrated 3D graphics (irrelevant if you're adding a GPU), and DDR4 and USB 3.1 support. Unless you have a pressing need for the last two or you plan to be running the CPU at 100% for extended periods of time (in which case the power savings translates into $$ of electricity saved), I would go with Haswell if you can get it for a lot cheaper.
 
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