i5 4th gen vs 6th gen

GamesOn · Oct 29, 2016

Is there any big difference? I have a Asus H97M E mobo and incase I want to upgrade, should I buy a new 6th gen mobo plus i5 or just an 4th gen i5 wouldn't make much of a difference?

Also, this motherboard I have supports 1600(o.c) max, I only do gaming, does getting a mobo which supports higher frequency do any good?

hamster66 · Oct 29, 2016

Differences are so small between 4th and 6th gen that there is no point in changing platforms. Faster ram can give you 1-2 extra fps so in real live makes completely no differences in gaming.

FD2Raptor · Oct 29, 2016

There are titles that would benefits greatly from faster RAM:
http://www.hardwareunboxed.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1570

but in the vast majority of cases, your GPU would be the bigger bottleneck before you run into memory bandwidth bottleneck.

gussrtk · Oct 29, 2016

GamesOn :

if you have an i5 right now. There is no reason to worry about upgrading. we can "assume" your system is still pretty decent (but some specs would be appreciated)

GamesOn · Nov 3, 2016

gussrtk :

msi rx 470 i3 4160 3.6ghz, corsair vengeance running at 1333mhz rn I have to set them to XMP so they run at 1600mhz (gonna do that, not running my gpu rn)

gussrtk · Nov 3, 2016

Well, I guess your best option is buying a high end second hand, or 4460 which is low end i5. If you can only get 4460 then go for the 6th gen. Even your choice of second hand may be a bit of wasted money. To get 6th gen it's about 350$ if you want that path.

What do you want to achieve? Do you want to spend?

GamesOn · Nov 4, 2016

gussrtk :

Rn I have a i3 4160, but in future what do I upgrade to? I mentioned that I've built this PC for gaming. Yesterday I paired a rx 470 msi with it, bought PC in this Feb.

Ecky · Nov 4, 2016

You can drop in an i7 47xx. It's a very potent chip and only falls a few percent short of the current cutting-edge i7 6700.

GamesOn · Nov 4, 2016

Ecky :

Would i5 4690 suffice? (no plans on OCing anything at all)

Ecky · Nov 4, 2016

For 60fps in most games, yes.

GamesOn · Nov 4, 2016

Ecky :

I meant like, is it worth it? Picking a 4th gen over a 6th gen? If so, I wont have to change my H97me and corsair 4x2 1600mhz rams because they cost me good monies :3

Worth like in this specific case.

Ecky · Nov 4, 2016

The difference in performance is generally less than 10% per clock, so if you can buy a slightly faster clocked CPU with the money saved, the difference in performance is zero. The i5 4690 is clocked about 10% higher than the i5 6500.

GamesOn · Nov 4, 2016

Ecky :

So I'll just get a 4690 when I can, I also need some help here;
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3231647/msi-gaming-app-leds.html

Thanks a lot.

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