Planning on upgrding to intel

Discussion in 'Processors and motherboards Intel' started by antonyfrn, Jul 4, 2015.

  1. antonyfrn

    antonyfrn Maha Guru

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    Skylake is around the corner.Just wait a bit,and see what is all about.If Intel doesn't bring what you need,you can buy"old" tech at a lower price.
    DDR4 is a mixed bag,lower voltage,higher clocks,but not low latency.
    I will wait until newer chipset start showing up,and see some test.
     
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    Go for it. Intel doesnt bring anything über cause lack of competition.
    If u wait, u can wait forever.

    I had FX8150 4GHZ and i5 upgade was worth every cent.
     
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    also a choice,buy what is at hand in the market,waiting game is and isn't fullfiling.
     

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    Well I'm thinking of waiting to see what Skylake brings plus ill have more cash by then to throw at it. Plus AMD Zen is not going to show till next year.
     
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    I went from FX8350 to i7 4790k It is an awesome upgrade games have higher fps and my system is cooler.

    from any FX8 I would recommend going i7, 8 amd cores to 8 Intel cores going 4 cores would feel like your losing cores even though the i5 is still faster
     
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    You are aware that the i7 4790K is a quad core aren't you? It doesn't have more cores, it has Hyper Threading, which means it's a 4 core 8 thread processor. The lower end i5 is a 4 core 4 thread processor.
     
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    It means when 4690k becomes obsolete 4790k will be too.

    I would probably wait Skylake at this point.
     
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    Yeah wait for <4 weeks for Skylake and Z170, and if that doesn't offer you what you want you can always go buy Haswell - probably even cheaper then too.
     
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    I know but 8 is more than 4 even if 4 are fake cores they do help in some programs and who does not like more I had i5 4690k and now I have i7 4790k and it is a lot better at video encoding
     

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    It is better at encoding because it makes use of 8 threads. It is still a quad cpu though. I think intel does have 1 8 core 16 thread cpu but is very expensive. Probably an excellent investment long term even with the price.
     
  13. thatguy91

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    I'd say just the opposite, it wouldn't be a good long term investment spending so much on a CPU, because when other 8 core, 16 thread CPU's come out the cost wouldn't be justified on that now. The AMD Zen FX is supposedly 8 core, 16 thread, for example.
     
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    Based on what verifiable performance level. My guess is it will be overhyped and wind up being a letdown. At least you know what your getting with intel. Bulldozer was overhyped as usual and was a huge letdown. Hopefully Zen won't be but I doubt it imo. Especially if those slides I saw on it were from amd.
     

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