Skylake build vs haswell build?

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 26, 2016

I5 6500
Msi h110m pro vd
Kingston hyper x fury 2x4gb 2133
Rx 480 4gb

I5 4690
Gigabyte s2h
Kingston hyper x fury 2x4gb 1886
Rx 480 4gb

The skylake build is more expensive because of the ram but the two cpu prices are practically the same, so my question is which one? Is there any performance difference or anything else you can think of, please try and provide as much reasons possible and feel free to ask any more questions about the build
Thanks for feedback : )

timeconsumer · Jul 26, 2016

Skylake is maybe a 5% increase in IPC over Haswell. Nothing to write home about, but if they're the same price you might as well go with Skylake.

bskchaos · Jul 26, 2016

What difference? Both cost around US$40.

I would go with the newer system and add a few bucks for a better mb (w/ m and 4 ram slots) or the 8gb version of the RX 480

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 26, 2016

The thing is im already stretching my budget a bit but the ddr4 ram which was £37 has a clock speed of 2133 and i found kingston fury, both are practically the same but the fury has a speed of 2400 and this one is cheaper

timeconsumer · Jul 26, 2016

Well the Haswell build I don't believe that motherboard will be able to run your memory at 1866, I believe it will run a max of 1600 with XMP. Either way both systems will perform extremely similarly to each other in games. The Skylake DDR4 build might be 1-5 FPS higher, depending on the game and settings.

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 26, 2016

Any other comments about the skylake build? For example can the mobo run 2400? because you caught my attention when you mentioned that specific mobos can only handle certain speeds

timeconsumer · Jul 26, 2016

The Skylake motherboard is rated for 2133 Mhz memory. Now that doesn't mean you can only buy that speed, you can buy faster stuff, it just will just downclock to that speed. In my opinion memory speed doesn't make a huge difference in gaming so I wouldn't worry about it much.

Robert8x · Jul 26, 2016

I would opt for the skylake, purely because it's the newer socket therefore you will be able to upgrade to more powerful i5/i7'S in the future if you would like to do so, also the added supported of DDR4 Ram is nice to have as even though it doesn't effect gaming performance it makes it slightly more future proof. If you could afford a little more on the CPU a none K series 6600 would be a great choice, especially if you want to play more CPU demanding titles such as Arma. Hope this helps, Rob

Robert8x · Jul 26, 2016

Forgot to add, I know the motherboard only supports 2133mhz Ram but if he got say some 3000mhz and changed his motherboard it would save him some money in the long run

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 26, 2016

How do you check how much speed the motherboard can handle?

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 26, 2016

Robert8x · Jul 26, 2016

Do you plan to game on the PC?

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 27, 2016

Yes ; here is he list of some games i would like to play
Attila total war (mainly for the 1212ad mod)
Rome 2
Empire total war
Napoleon total war medieval 2 total war
Sims 4
Battlefield 1 and 4
Reign of kings
Dark souls
Skyrim with alot of mods mainly graphics, swords, armor and dragons etc
Grand theft auto v with mods
Arma 2 or 3...
List goes on

Inkiad · Jul 27, 2016

Get Skylake. It is new and will give you 15%-20% better performance (not 5%). It runs cooler, uses latest technology.

Skylake itself is like a year old. Haswell is like 3 years old. Get the new platform.

Edit: Getting a single stick of 8gb ram might save you some money.

Robert8x · Jul 27, 2016

Pcenthusiast16 :

You'll probably want to get a skylake it 6600 then

Pcenthusiast16 · Jul 27, 2016

I cant go for the i5 6600 because it stretches the budget too much (as in im already over my budget) but yeah im going for skylake, thanks for everybody's help

Hawkshot · Jul 27, 2016

the skylake build is going to preform better and also doesn't leave you stranded as far as upgradability goes, always get 2x4gb sticks over 1x8gb stick RAM runs better in dual channels just FYI

Inkiad · Jul 27, 2016

Dual channel memory is overrated. It does increase your memory bandwidth, but you would not see that much performance increase in real life. Dual channel is like less than 5% more performance in real life applications than single channel.

Robert8x · Jul 27, 2016

Pcenthusiast16 :

No problem, happy building

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