I'm sure this topic is beaten to death or topics similar to this one probably.
I'm running a first gen. i7 975 extreme overclocked to 4.0GHz on a X58 P6T MoBo. It's over 6 years old now. Only been upgrading my HDDs/SSDs and GPUs over the years.
Thinking with all the new feature sets in the new Z170 chipset and Skylake, maybe a good time to upgrade.
Anyways, I had a bit of a discussion going on another forum, but didn't get all the answers I was looking for. So, it sounds like the new Skylake is probably has roughly 30% better performance over my i7. The thing is, it seems like my i7 is still a beast, not even really taxed by Witcher 3 (My processor is slightly lower or slightly higher than minimum recommended CPU depending on the benchmarks you look at.), but again, looking at new feature sets it looks nice.
I was thinking about getting the i5-6600k, but it's only 4 threads vs the 8 threads in my i7 first gen. Now I'm not really an application guy so bare with me here. For gaming it sounds like the i5 would be fine, but I'm wondering if that would affect tracks when recording music that has multiple tracks?
I'm not sure if that is a real concern or not. I'm not sure what types of apps would actually make use of all 8 threads, or if I even use them. I guess I could just wait for the i7-6700k to be more readily available, but I was hoping to save a few bucks and just go with the i5-6600k... just trying to make sure I won't be disappointed.
Just looking for thoughts/discussions/suggestions.
Thanks!
I'm running a first gen. i7 975 extreme overclocked to 4.0GHz on a X58 P6T MoBo. It's over 6 years old now. Only been upgrading my HDDs/SSDs and GPUs over the years.
Thinking with all the new feature sets in the new Z170 chipset and Skylake, maybe a good time to upgrade.
Anyways, I had a bit of a discussion going on another forum, but didn't get all the answers I was looking for. So, it sounds like the new Skylake is probably has roughly 30% better performance over my i7. The thing is, it seems like my i7 is still a beast, not even really taxed by Witcher 3 (My processor is slightly lower or slightly higher than minimum recommended CPU depending on the benchmarks you look at.), but again, looking at new feature sets it looks nice.
I was thinking about getting the i5-6600k, but it's only 4 threads vs the 8 threads in my i7 first gen. Now I'm not really an application guy so bare with me here. For gaming it sounds like the i5 would be fine, but I'm wondering if that would affect tracks when recording music that has multiple tracks?
I'm not sure if that is a real concern or not. I'm not sure what types of apps would actually make use of all 8 threads, or if I even use them. I guess I could just wait for the i7-6700k to be more readily available, but I was hoping to save a few bucks and just go with the i5-6600k... just trying to make sure I won't be disappointed.
Just looking for thoughts/discussions/suggestions.
Thanks!