Skylake vs Haswell

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Anarkie13

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Just looking for thoughts and opinions on this. I can get a Skylake i5-6500 with H110 motherboard or a Haswell i5-4690k with an H97 motherboard. Same price.

I'm quite torn on this as performance on the 2 sets seem almost identical. Upgradability isn't of concern in this case. It's going to be used long enough as-is that a whole new build will replace it when upgrades are needed.
 
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geofelt
i5-6500 has a passmark rating of 7044, and a single thread rating of 1943.
I5-4690K has a passmark rating of 7705 and a single thread rating of 2233.
If you can get a motherboard capable of overclocking, the "K" can go even higher.

If you will be using integrated graphics, the skylake 530 graphics is definitely superior.
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in real life newer intel cpu is slightly faster. when looking at the build look at both mb check out the number of ram slots/sata ports and usb ports. in real life your going to lose three usb ports. one for the mouse one for the keyboard and one for a usb wifi dongle. some of the low end mb have only 3 or 4 usb ports. also as a tech the lower end mb are also a lot thinner to save money over the higher end cost mb.
 
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i5-6500 has a passmark rating of 7044, and a single thread rating of 1943.
I5-4690K has a passmark rating of 7705 and a single thread rating of 2233.
If you can get a motherboard capable of overclocking, the "K" can go even higher.

If you will be using integrated graphics, the skylake 530 graphics is definitely superior.
 
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