cpu upgrade at the moment

[shamsul_arefin]

i am planning to buy a pc in the end of december or first of the january,
my current pc was bought in 2011,
my plan is to buy i7 6700 and an associated motherboard.
but skylake is already 2 years old, and 7th gen kabylake is about to arrive market .
will it be a good decision to buy now or buy something in february or march ?
usually when a cpu + mobo come to market ? according to this, apprximately when new 7th gen is expected to come ? i am worried because first relaese price tend to be much high , and someitmes (i heard) initial cpus contain some issues which are fixed later.
i am in dilemma about current decision

 

[10tacle]

Rule of thumb: if you are building a new PC, buy the latest equipment unless cost is a severe issue. Ever since the Core "i" series, each new tick/tock has only increased performance by 5-10% depending on tick or tock. I have always skipped at least two cycles in every new PC build for the CPU (and that goes for GPUs as well).

With that said, if you *need* a new PC now, then build a Skylake. If you have money in your pocket just itching you to get rid of it, then wait and see what Kabylake offers. Based on history though, the differences in performance will be minimal. I'm still more than happy with my Haswell/Devil's Canyon i5 4690K and it is nearly two and a half years old.

 

[synphul]

No real benchmarks yet for kaby's desktop cpu's. Some mobile varieties are beginning to ship. I'd expect a slight improvement if they up the clock speeds but nothing drastic. Skylake isn't 2yrs old, they came out August 2015 so they're just over a year old with no firm replacement in hand making skylake current. You likely won't be missing much by going skylake but since kaby is close to release you might consider waiting.

I'm not sure of a firm release date other than early Q1 of 2017 which could be Jan or Feb. They run on the same h170/z170/h110 boards etc that skylake runs on.

 

[shamsul_arefin]

No real benchmarks yet for kaby's desktop cpu's. Some mobile varieties are beginning to ship. I'd expect a slight improvement if they up the clock speeds but nothing drastic. Skylake isn't 2yrs old, they came out August 2015 so they're just over a year old with no firm replacement in hand making skylake current. You likely won't be missing much by going skylake but since kaby is close to release you might consider waiting.

I'm not sure of a firm release date other than early Q1 of 2017 which could be Jan or Feb. They run on the same h170/z170/h110 boards etc that skylake runs on.

Ok, i got it. Can you tell me that, 2nd generation and 3rd generation sockets were similar so, after releasing 3rd generation, was any new motherboard (with new chipset) arrived?