I have ASUS H170 Pro Gaming LGA 1151 motherboard and i bought a i5 6400 because i5 6500 went out of stock in my local retailers, so i decided to buy it online but the i5 6400 and i5 6500 has a $60 price difference because i bought the i5 6400 for way cheap in my local retailer, the guy at the store told me that because of the new stock of kaby lake processors coming soon, they need to sell all the skylake processors quickly. So my question is, Is it worth getting a i5 6500 for $60 more online and if the kaby lake processors are coming soon, should i just the buy the new i5 7400 or i5 7500 instead and if i decided to buy it will my motherboard support the new kaby lake processors?
Will my Skylake motherboard support Kaby Lake processors?
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velocityg4
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Yes, it will support Kaby Lake after you install the 3016 BIOS update.
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/H170-PRO-GAMING/HelpDesk_CPU/
As to whether or not it is worth updating your current i5-6400 to a 6500 or Kaby Lake. That really depends on your needs. If you aren't maxing out your CPU and hitting 100% usage. Then a faster CPU won't make much difference, if any. There may be short bursts where it feels faster.
If you are maxing out your CPU. Then you would be better off with an i7-6700k or i7-7700K. Because a simple 15% to 20% i5 clock boost won't make much of a difference. The even higher clock rate and hyper threading on those two i7 would.
For daily usage you will notice much more of a difference if you dump that money into an SSD and make it the boot drive. Unless you are performing CPU intensive tasks. An i5 with an SSD will feel faster than an i7 with a hard drive. Heck, I have a Core 2 Quad and 1st gen Core i3 with SSD. They both snap through tasks quickly due to the SSD. I hardly notice a difference between those and my i5-3570K @4.2Ghz with an SSD.
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/H170-PRO-GAMING/HelpDesk_CPU/
As to whether or not it is worth updating your current i5-6400 to a 6500 or Kaby Lake. That really depends on your needs. If you aren't maxing out your CPU and hitting 100% usage. Then a faster CPU won't make much difference, if any. There may be short bursts where it feels faster.
If you are maxing out your CPU. Then you would be better off with an i7-6700k or i7-7700K. Because a simple 15% to 20% i5 clock boost won't make much of a difference. The even higher clock rate and hyper threading on those two i7 would.
For daily usage you will notice much more of a difference if you dump that money into an SSD and make it the boot drive. Unless you are performing CPU intensive tasks. An i5 with an SSD will feel faster than an i7 with a hard drive. Heck, I have a Core 2 Quad and 1st gen Core i3 with SSD. They both snap through tasks quickly due to the SSD. I hardly notice a difference between those and my i5-3570K @4.2Ghz with an SSD.
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