Is it worth upgrading to Intel Skylake i5/i7?

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DayRider

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As of now i own a FX 6300 and a GTX 970 . There is some bottleneck in some games. Not much but it is there. Now i am wondering if its worth it to upgrade to a i5 or i7 Skylake ? I have already dished out $800 on a new monitor (yes very expensive monitor) and a GTX 970 . You reckon its worth it ? As i have only played at 720P Resolution for a year since i bought the CPU. If i was going to upgrade i was thinking about a i5 6500 or 6600 . Cheers
 
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You could buy a cheap FX- 8350 (possiby used) and then sell your 6300 on ebay. That way you won't have to get a new motherboard and when the new cpus are released by intel/amd at end of this year it would be a much bigger upgrade.

Just a thought, good luck!
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I've gone from an fx 8320 to an i5 4690k and the difference was very noticable. Certain games that lagged quite a lot went to butter smooth frames. I would say hell yes, considering I did a very similar upgrade which made a big difference in cpu intensive games.
 
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DayRider

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Oh OK cool . yeah I might just upgrade soon . was changing your motherboard and CPU hard ? Did you have to buy another wibdows activation key ?

Cheers
 
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One thing to note: I ended up using my windows 7 CD and doing a clean install of windows just to be safe. It's not necessary but I've heard of weird issues sometimes if you don't.
 
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If you have the OEM version of Windows and you change the Motherboard and CPU among other things, Microsoft will not accept that as a valid key any longer. You will have to buy a new key for Windows.

Now if you own the Retail version you will not have this problem.
 
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All I ever needed to do was contact Microsoft and explain to them I had to replace a dead motherboard on my PC and they approved my original OEM key. I've done it twice on two separate rigs (although both times they were for a Win7 and Vista rig...not sure about the story on Win10).

 
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You could buy a cheap FX- 8350 (possiby used) and then sell your 6300 on ebay. That way you won't have to get a new motherboard and when the new cpus are released by intel/amd at end of this year it would be a much bigger upgrade.

Just a thought, good luck!
 
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Thanks for the information. I will try that next time I'm in Op's position.
 
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DayRider

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Yeah il try that to cheers
 
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