CPU upgrade. DX12 doubt.

[Tommynew]

Well, tomorrow im ordering a new cpu, but im hesitating because i dont know if dx12 finally will bost 8 cores or hyperthreading.

I was going to buy an 4690k but i maybe i should reconsider it and go for a 8350 or 4790k.

So those are the options:
4690k
8350
4790k (only if it is really necessary)

What should i do?

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Thats the point, even if i will finnaly choose the 4690k, maybe i should wait for August only to see what happens, prices... etc.

Its only 1 2 months.

If skylake wont be launched in 2 months that will be the problem because as i said and you confirm, i5 650 needs to be replaced asap.

That used to be my concern until if you look it up, the price of Intel chips never comes down. Go look at the i7-3970x, it cost about 1k when it came out, it costs about 1k now, and that's a z77 chipset chip. Motherboards and ram might come down in price but rarely do CPUs, and when they do it's a matter that it's some kind of special promo through a retailer. I mean I got a free game with my 4790k which saved me maybe 20-30 bucks on buying the game, but I was buying the chip even if I wasn't getting the game.

If you play the, I'll wait game you're missing out time between today and August that you could be using the chip and enjoying your upgrade. If you always look at the greener grass that either the neighbor has or the gardener promises you're not enjoying what you can have here and now. I mean the choice is yours but this is almost a question of mindset rather than value vs dollars. Skylake won't be magically better than Haswell, only marginally better and for a premium on the other parts ram/mobo's, plus when the chip first comes out it's bound to have compatibility issues where you'll need updated BIOS and so forth when all of that is already worked out with on the slightly older chipset.

 

[gamerk316]

If DX12 is anything like Mantle, the benefit scaling would diminish with higher end CPU's, largest gain with lower end CPU's and smaller gains with an i7 or OC'd 8350.

That's exactly what is going to happen. Games aren't CPU limited for the most part, so your gains on the CPU side are largely going to be limited to the architectural improvements within the API, at least for higher tier (non-CPU bottlenecked) CPUs. It's the lower tier CPUs which will see the largest gains, in particular Core i3's, Athlon X4's, and FX-43xx series CPUs (and to a lesser extent, Pentiums, since they'll likely still be bottlenecked).

In short: Don't expect massive improvements on i5's or higher.

 

[gamerk316]

Thats the point, even if i will finnaly choose the 4690k, maybe i should wait for August only to see what happens, prices... etc.

Its only 1 2 months.

If skylake wont be launched in 2 months that will be the problem because as i said and you confirm, i5 650 needs to be replaced asap.

An i5 650 is still going to be competitive with the FX-6300. Yes, you're down maybe 30-40% performance versus newer i5's, but it's not a massive system bottleneck.

 

[Tommynew]

Thats the point, even if i will finnaly choose the 4690k, maybe i should wait for August only to see what happens, prices... etc.

Its only 1 2 months.

If skylake wont be launched in 2 months that will be the problem because as i said and you confirm, i5 650 needs to be replaced asap.

An i5 650 is still going to be competitive with the FX-6300. Yes, you're down maybe 30-40% performance versus newer i5's, but it's not a massive system bottleneck.

But im planning on getting a 970/390, so i though its a good idea to change the cpu first.

970 with i5 650... i dont think it will work very well.