buy devils canyon now or wait for skylake

[Ojsitv]

Hey guys im building a new gaming/editing PC soon and I'm really want to get one and I'm stuck with devils canyon or skylake which is supposed to come out in less than a month with ddr4 support. And it is rumored to be a decent jump over devils canyon. Should I stay happy with devils canyon with ddr3 ram or should I buy skylake with ddr4 any help would be appreciated! I'm going to get a gtx 970 and 8gb of ddr3 if I go with devils canyon or 8gb of ddr4 with skylake and I will get a gtx 970 gpu.

Games:
Minecraft moded
Battlefield 4
Battlefield hardline
Space engineers
Battlefront 3 (when it comes out)
Fallout 4 (when it comes out)
Gmod with lots of mods
Team fortress 2
No mans sky
Battlefield bad company 2

Applications:
Blender
Adobe premiere pro
Adobe after effects
Source film maker

 

[dudeman509]

Personally, if I was able to, I'd wait at least until I see some benchmarks on Skylake.

Will it be a night-and-day difference? No. Will it be noticeable? For the Adobe stuff- quite possibly so.

 

[coastie65]

Hi, I went from the 2600k to the 4770k and wish I had waited for the Devils Canyon. Seeng as how I didn't ( nor did I wait for the Z97 Chipset Motherboards ). I am not waiting for the Skylake and see what it has to offer. I am hearing the 1xx Chipset will offer Quad Channel and DDR4, plus some really nice PCIe lanes. The unlocked Skylake is not expected until sometime after the first of the year. I would like to move to the Z97 MOBO as I think the Z87 may be cutting the performance of the GTX 980 SC card I have in here. I am currently playing The Witcher 3 at Ultra with the setting maxed out, and that is one intensive game.FPS is anywhere from 33 to 60.

 

[Abhishek Nair]

Well i had come up with the same question! & i got the answer.Skylake will be coming up in a few weeks and it has roughly about 5 -10 •/• TDP gains over the haswell's and about 10-20•/• more performance increse.14nm manufacturing process leads to lower temps overall but,to be honest the haswell and haswell-E still yields enough power for the next couple of years.I would suggest you to get an devils canyon and those chips gave more than enough power

 

[MikeDavo]

You remember the haswell fiasco and how Intel came up with DC to fix the issues with haswell. Nuff said

 

[etk]

When waiting is an option, it tends to be the better one.

 

[synphul]

Agreed, no harm in waiting. Though if the choice meant dropping from a 980 to 970 for ddr4 over ddr3, I'd go devil's canyon. Still think it would be wise to wait and see. I don't put too much faith in promises from intel or amd. Bulldozer/piledriver were turds compared to the hype and the devil's canyon i5's didn't hit 5ghz on air cooling. That aside, I don't feel 'duped' since I knew the capabilities of devil's canyon when I bought it and it was a healthy upgrade from a core 2 duo.