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Is skylake just a meme or is it worth spending more money on than a i7 4790k build?
>>321163534
i5 vs i7 is a pretty big debate. Usually most people are completely fine with the power and performance of an i5. Certain enthusiast players can certainly go for the i7 but for the most part many games don't fully utilize the i5 let alone the i7. For all intents and purposes that isn't heavy video rendering, editing and what not the i5 will fill the purpose of most all your nears
>>321163534
it's a overpriced meme
>out of stock constantly
>supposed to be priced $350
>$450-500 anywhere you look
Depends.
On one hand, if you get a 1151 socket motherboard, you will be good to go for at least a few more years if you want to just upgrade the CPU. You also have access do DDR4 memory, which is slowly going down in price and more practical then it was a few months ago.
On the other, i7-4790k is honestly overkill at this point for any current game (and probably anything within the next 5 years) and is not that far behind Skylake. Problem is, you are stuck on LGA 1150 and DDR3 (Which isn't bad, but limits the possibility of a cheap upgrade).
Personally? I have a i7-4790k, but I also did my build right before Skylake came out. Granted, it is still a damn fine processor and overclocked it is a absolute beast all around.
i7-920 master race here
with a heavy factory OC 750ti
I play all games at ultra 1080p. modern games @ about 30fps
>>321163957
Correction, there are DDR4 motherboards for LGA 1150, but you are still cut off from CPU upgrades. Didn't even realize they started to do DDR4 for 1150.
>>321164106
>30 fps
>>321164628
:^) should i spend $1000 more to brag 60fps on a vietnamese anime board?
>>321164721
Yes.
I'm upgrading to a FX6300 from a Phenom II x4. To be honest I'm not concerned about getting 70-90fps averages as long as I'm at 60fps or close. I've yet to even need to use my HD7950 with my HD6970 eating threw my backlog of games without breaking a sweat
>>321164958
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I've yet to spend over $1000 on my PC in the last 5 years
>>321164987
>still playing with 60fps
>not upgrading to glorious 120fps masterrace
>>321164987
That's not much of an upgrade. I wouldn't be too surprised if some games saw a FPS drop.
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>>321164721
>can brag about running majority of games on ultra
>criminal to brag current gen on ultra
My justification for not getting skylake when I had the opportunity to was that I already had 16GB of DDR3 ram. I didn't to buy all that shit all over again at a higher price
That and the speeds of DDR4 ram are barely meeting DDR3 ram already so you would have to plan to upgrade those existing ram again.
Also make sure what you want to do is worth getting an i7 for. I find that all of my games performed the same with an i7-4790k coming from an i5-4690k. i5 is good for just straight up gaming but when you want to do stuff like broadcasting your games or video editing/rendering, an i7 would be perfect for that.
>>321165107
Old Source games easily run at or above 120fps 1080P max settings. I'm just too much of a poor fag to have bought a 120fps monitor in the last 5 years. I'm quite happy with 1080P 60fps
>>321165172
Its an upgrade from my Opteron 1385 running @3.3GHz I picked up unused for $40
>>321164721
You clearly already have the power to hit 60 fps but you chose to hit ultra graphix instead. Literally worse than a consolfag, at least they don't have a choice.
>>321163534
Only 8 cores?
I have a 5 year old processor and that shit uses 4.
BENT CHIP
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Seriously the Phenom IIx4 ran Skyrim at second to highest shadow settings 1080P 60fps. My HD6970 ate through hir res texture mods like it didn't give any fucks. 1080P 60fps no AA everything else but shadow quality maxed out .
Shadow quality hits the CPU in Skyrim for some reason
>>321165506
well unlike you I dont fall for memes. anything above stable 25fps is playable.
60fps makes things look strange. not heavy or cinematic
40 is the sweet spot
>>321165806
What even causes opinions as fucking inane as this?
>>321165806
What in the fucking fuck am I reading? Are you seriously saying "60fps makes things look weird"?
You're such an obvious bait yet I'm still getting fucking pissed off because of it
>>321165898
experience I think. i played latest batman everything ultra at locked 30fps. I am not even remotely mad
>>321163534
god no
>newfags don't recognize this . shitposter
lol
>>321163534
>not buying a Xeon
It's like you want to waste money.
Xeon
>equal performance
>cheaper
>more memory bandwidth
>more stable
>SMP capable
>ECC
>more L3 cache
Just grab a E3-12xx, 1151 socket board and you're good to go.
The only game I know of that might require an i7 is Star Citizen but it won't be finished for another two years.
>>321165806
I wonder what are 240 fps to you.
>>321165806
60 is a sweet spot for smooth gameplay without requiring a tremendous amount of performance. Its not like 60fps is necessary for all game types.
Twitchy games (FPS and TPS) require 60fps or better.
Slower games (Witcher series, Bethesda games, platformers) only really need 30-60fps.
RTS is fine above 20fps
>>321166064
>equal performance
Nope, lower clocked
>cheaper
Yep, quite a bit
>more memory bandwidth
Is it quadchannel or something?
>more stable
Pointless in a typical desktop
>SMP capable
Ditto
>ECC
Ditto, ECC memory is more expensive to boot
>more L3 cache
Kinda nice
>unlocked broadwells will never be a thing
guess I'm sticking with this 4690k until I upgrade the whole setup in a few years
The question is - do I go for 6700k or wait for Broadwell-E?
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>>321166224
(You)
>>321165935
camera moves too fast. and character movement is unnatural. sort of it gets the cheap soap opera look.
there is a reason why vsync exists.
try playing max payne 3 at 120fps. shit's weird
you are braindead and brainwashed by the high fps meme
fps should NEVER surpass 40fps
also SOME games are better at 720p coz the screen is not zoomed out
>>321166446
This is retarded. You're retarded. It's not a "meme" it's fucking logic. What am I reading
I know Intel is better but benchmarks have proven for years now that the i3 is often equal to both the i5 and i7 in most games and the ones that benefit from an i5 almost always perform identically to the i7. I think Crysis 3 might be the only game to benefit in any meaningful way from an i7
>>321166446
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>>321166546
its a pity that crysis 3 is a meme with no gameplay
>>321166446
This is the funniest shit I've read all hour. Please keep going anon.
>>321166621
I haven't even played it after the disaster that was Crysis 2. The changes to gameplay were awful and it looked like most of them carried over to 3
>>321166446
>>321166771
i shall something that might cause some problems
many 360/ps3 ports are better played at 720p since they were designed for that resolution
at 1080p everything on screen becomes very small including text
>feels good getting this off my chest
>>321166446
This is either clear bait or the ranting of someone with a potato in their head
>>321166360
you're good enough to skip skylake
>>321166935
Do you need glasses anon?
>>321165806
25fps is shit, 60fps does not look strange.
30fps is playable, but 40 is worse than 30 due to frame timing with your refresh rate, this is either bait or you're a complete spastic
>>321167082
i know about the screen tearing issue. i enjoy it (unlike your mum) coz its a reminder that i got a beast pc. i7 with 12gb ram and heavy oc 750ti.
>>321165796
A 750ti in a prebuilt can handle skyrim, fag. That game is not intensive.
>>321166935
If they become "too" small you are at wrong viewing distance to your screen. Get closer or get some fucking glasses.
>>321167260
my pc is setup as a console hybrid
>>321167324
What the fuck does that even mean? You sit on a couch and play from your TV? Move the couch closer.
>>321167219
frame timing =/= screen tearing
something moving from x-40 wil make your game for the lack of a better word "stutter", so you're best capping your game at 30fps at that point
>tfw i've bought a 3770k in 2012
>>321167220
The GTX750Ti is slightly outperformed by the GTX580 so it is about equal to my HD6970 from 2010. My GPU isn't even GCN its Terrascale.
Older GPUs like the GTX285 (at one point as expensive as a GTX980) struggle with Skyrim
Skyrim is a year newer than my old PC. I was pretty happy that it ran as well as it did
>>321165172
In some games I'm looking at more than a 50% increase in frame rate over my Phenom II x4 925. For $90 I'm happy with that
>>321167324
You're so dumb that it's adorable, anon.
For $90 unused I feel its a good improvement over my old Phenom II x4
Although I would have rather gone with the old Phenom II x6 but unused chips are going for $150+
>>321163534
Not really.
There is slight increase of performance but just like last gen, 99% of games are GPU bound, so you'll do better spending more money on GPU especially since you're buying 8 core anyway.
Currenlty running an i5 6600K @4,6GHz and no, it's not worth it at this point and probably won't be worth it next year either, provided the old processors drop a bit in price again.
Then again I'm not the best reference as I did not only go with the OC'd Skylake but also went full retard and bought a 1440p@144Hz screen because it was on sale at Amazon. Scrolling through /v/ was never more smoothshame there are no games to play
>>321169785
you're not going to enjoy Dragons Dogma in grorious 1440p and 144hz?
>>321169998
Maybe. It's one of the few upcoming games I'm looking forward to but there's a lot that can go wrong when making ports.
2016 looks pretty shit for the earlier half but titles like Aquanox 3, the Guild 3 and SpellForce 3 make me actually look forward to winter 2016. 2015 was a big disappointment for me.
>>321170336
>spellforce 3
it's not from Phenomic anymore
Nordic Games a shit
>>321163534
For now, no.
>>321163534
To be honest with you, I know jack sht about computers, but I was working with a 3 year old amd cpu, which wasn't even good to begin with.
So yeah, just to prepare myself for future upgrades I decided to get myself a nice 1151 mobo and I so far no regrets.
So, that's about all I can tell you, things' a beast.
Am I the only one that's been disappointed with the rate of processor growth these last couple years? I was planing, and I guess hoping my current process would need to be replaced by this point.
>>321173851
>he's disappointed that he hasn't had to upgrade his shit for a while
>>321174260
A little yes. Its just sign of moore's laws dying I think.
>>321165806
This is fucking retarded. I know GSync exists, but since you have a shit PC your monitor should naturally be shitty too.
i3 fag here, how does that affect my vidya?
>>321163957
>>321163534
Pretty sure that Nvidia's pascal will also require these, probably newer motherboards since they'll require NVLink/PCI-E 4.
Those motherboards should be built around Skylake, therefore, if you plan on getting a Pascal GPU, you'll need a Skylake CPU (at least) and therefore a suited motherboard and DDR4 RAM.
>>321165806
>40 sweet spo
idk what im talking about: the post
I think there was some tech news indicating AMD has pushed ZEN's release back to 2017.
Intel gets to enjoy a continuing monopoly over the CPU market.
>>321173851
It's because AMD is way behind and Intel has been focusing most of their efforts on mobile, ie making shit more efficient rather than more powerful. MacBooks and Surfaces are probably much more important to their bottom line than hardcore PC gaming rigs at this point.
