Haswell vs Skylake: which to choose?

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I'm looking to upgrade to a new cpu. My pentium k G3258 needs an upgrade. Should I spend the money and opt for a new mobo, ddr4 memory and a 6600k or save the money and just buy a Xeon e3 1231 v3 for gaming purposes. I have a h81m- plus mobo from Asus.
 
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Instead of the Xeon you could get a 4690 and have an extra 100Mhz for gaming. The Xeon is more expensive for two reasons which are 1: it's a Xeon, and 2: it has multi-threading. Multi-threading might be more useful for games with DX12, but adoption of DX12 is really low right now. If you get the 4690 you will instantly save $30 and have 100 extra MHz, but will lose multi-threading. Obviously 4690K and 4790K are out because they require a Z series board to overclock and will only work in an H or B board loaded with the proper BIOS but as stated earlier, will still not over clock. You could buy a pretty nice mid range Z97 motherboard for about $120 and get a 4690K as a final option, then you would at least be able to use your DDR3 ram and...
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depends if you need extras or not , like NVME M2 SSD ... and more lanes from the chipset , and the bigger DMI connection between the chipset and CPU...

Also , if you already have a good card or not .

I would put the Money on GTX 1070 better than getting Skylake and end up with lower GPU
 
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Stick with Haswell - save yourself the trouble of replacing your motherboard and RAM. You'll end up either getting a better CPU, paying less overall for similar performance, or putting more money towards a GPU upgrade later.
 
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Agreed. If you are upgrading from a haswell pentium G, getting a haswell i5 or i7 is the smarter choice. As you will just have to buy the cpu, nothing else. So most bang for your buck. You won't notice that much difference in gaming between Hasswell and skylake.
 
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Instead of the Xeon you could get a 4690 and have an extra 100Mhz for gaming. The Xeon is more expensive for two reasons which are 1: it's a Xeon, and 2: it has multi-threading. Multi-threading might be more useful for games with DX12, but adoption of DX12 is really low right now. If you get the 4690 you will instantly save $30 and have 100 extra MHz, but will lose multi-threading. Obviously 4690K and 4790K are out because they require a Z series board to overclock and will only work in an H or B board loaded with the proper BIOS but as stated earlier, will still not over clock. You could buy a pretty nice mid range Z97 motherboard for about $120 and get a 4690K as a final option, then you would at least be able to use your DDR3 ram and even overclock. you have a lot of options, but if you're looking to save money, get the best non K Haswell processor you can buy and get maximum performance out of your current hardware.
 
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Definitely not worth it; I have Bloomfield (1x), Haswell (2x), Haswell E (1x) and Skylake (2x) systems; when it comes to gaming Skylake is not worth it at all. An i5 4440 is all you need for gaming. one of my Haswells is an i5 4440 with a 390X and it does great in games.

Here's some benchmarks I did with my 4770K vs my 4440:

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/i52_zps9bz3cxmh.png.html

http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/loki1944/media/i5%20benchmarks_zpsf9wan2wf.png.html

Really only one game where the i7 took a significant lead; Rome 2.
 
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MERGED QUESTION
Question from Macanno : "Cpu Recommendations for gaming"



i5-6600(k) is THE go to CPU these days
maybe i7-6700 if you don't know where to put all your available cash ;)
 
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My wife has an i5 6600K with a 390X; pretty yawn worthy performance difference compared to my i5 4440 with a 390X, certainly not worth switching platforms.

 
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