4790k or go skylake

Adam-109 · Apr 24, 2016

Hello I'm.looking to upgrade my systems CPU and motherboard and I am unsure what to go with, Either i7 4790k or the new skylake i5 6600k.

I have found some good bundle deals on the 4790k which are cheaper than the 6600k but I'm unsure if its worth it since things are moving forward with ddr4 etc.

If it helps I will be using this for mostly gaming streaming and editing videos in Sony Vegas.

Oh and the 6700k is not an option I can't afford it lol.

Gam3r01 · Apr 24, 2016

I would go with a skylake Xeon:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($252.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus E3 PRO GAMING V5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($144.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($63.00 @ Newegg)
Total: $460.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-24 17:35 EDT-0400

synphul · Apr 24, 2016

I'd go for the 4790k, the extra clock speed out of the box would be advantageous in video editing as well as some games. Not to mention it can be overclocked paired with a z series motherboard and decent cooler. Ddr4 is moving forward in that it's more 'current' and a new number on the ram, in real world performance the improvements are barely there when at all. It could matter later on if trying to upgrade ram if you wait a long time and ddr3 becomes phased out completely and hard to obtain much like ddr2 is these days but that will probably be years away yet.

Xeons continue to be priced a bit better than the same generation i7 but at the cost of speed as well as they have been in the past. The generation performance from devil's canyon to skylake is around 5-10% improvement for skylake. Where the xeon tops out around 3.8ghz (one core fully loaded) it's more likely to be around 3.5-3.6ghz with all cores fully loaded. A 4790k with a decent air cooler (around the $50-60 range) can likely reach an overclock of 4.6ghz or more since that's only 200mhz over stock turbo speed and overclocked will be on all 4 cores. Now you're looking at a 1ghz difference between the i7 and xeon.

All in all even a devil's canyon (haswell) 4790k with the same amount of ram along with a decent cooler for overclocking will run a bit more than the xeon Gam3r01 mentioned. Then again it offers more performance. Most everything is relative.

In order of cost, lower to higher, e3-1230 v5, i7 4790k, i7 6700k. In order of price, xeon e3-1230 v5, i7 4790k, i7 6700k.

bit_user · Apr 24, 2016

One benefit of going with a Skylake i5 is that you can upgrade the CPU to a Kabylake i7, in a couple years. If you go with Haswell, it's a dead end, since there aren't any Broadwell CPUs that are a step up from the i7-4790K.

But you should probably go find some benchmarks to see exactly how those two CPUs you mentioned compare, in the games or apps you're planning to run.

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