Haswell vs Skylake

[Will Fantom]

I plan on building a new PC for around september this year. Skylake CPU's and Motherboards are apparently being released in August and it sounds tempting to go for. I was looking at spending about £1000 ($1600) and getting an i7-4790k. Would it be worth going for Skylake or would the performance boost from it cost too much?

 

[GT von]

I've actually got the same question. I'm planning to build a new gaming rig right now and I'm torn between the i5-4690/k or the i5-6600/k (my old one had a C2Q Q8400 so either will be an upgrade nonetheless). I've been scouring the net for answers but it just made me more confused. Some people in reddit are saying to go with Skylake since its future proofing, it has significant "tock" performance gains, and so on, but the others are saying to choose Haswell because there aren't much gains as believed, ddr4's are much more expensive but only marginally better if not equal to ddr3s, save the money and buy bigger GPUs instead, etcetc.

The 6600k is $50 more expensive than the 4690k where I live ($290 vs. $240). Which one should I go for?

Also, the reason why the "/k" is because I'm not sure if I am going to overclock at all since I don't know how (but I'm open to trying if it isn't difficult to do.)

Overclocking is the oldest and simplest adjustment to a cpu there is. Anyone can easily do it.

 

[ToxykVib3]

I plan on building a new PC for around september this year. Skylake CPU's and Motherboards are apparently being released in August and it sounds tempting to go for. I was looking at spending about £1000 ($1600) and getting an i7-4790k. Would it be worth going for Skylake or would the performance boost from it cost too much?

I am in the exact same situation.
I have a real old computer with an intel dual cire e5200 and Im going to do a new build I have everything figured out except wich processor should I choose.
Im a software developer as well I need a good processor for operations like code compiling, emulators and some virtual machines using vmware station.
I will be doing a lot of gaming.
I also need it to be good for at least 3-5 years at least 3 years.
I was going with the i7 4790 since it has hyperthreading and virtualization but now I dont know if the i5 6660k could be a better choice for my needs.
Can anyone help me? Im getting the parts really really soon and I need to figure this out in order to buy the best for my money

 

[LittllBlue]

I plan on building a new PC for around september this year. Skylake CPU's and Motherboards are apparently being released in August and it sounds tempting to go for. I was looking at spending about £1000 ($1600) and getting an i7-4790k. Would it be worth going for Skylake or would the performance boost from it cost too much?

I am in the exact same situation.
I have a real old computer with an intel dual cire e5200 and Im going to do a new build I have everything figured out except wich processor should I choose.
Im a software developer as well I need a good processor for operations like code compiling, emulators and some virtual machines using vmware station.
I will be doing a lot of gaming.
I also need it to be good for at least 3-5 years at least 3 years.
I was going with the i7 4790 since it has hyperthreading and virtualization but now I dont know if the i5 6660k could be a better choice for my needs.
Can anyone help me? Im getting the parts really really soon and I need to figure this out in order to buy the best for my money

Get the i7 4690k. For all the programs your going to use especially vmware, hyper-threading will help. Go for the i7.

 

[Ashwin_9]

If you can wait for Skylake then you might as well, particularly as it will be using a new socket and prices for Haswell will no doubt drop as a result.

What do you want the PC for?

I plan on using it for software development and playing games. I currently use an i5-4670 with the Z87 chipset but I didn't go for a `k` version at the time so any issues I have with my CPU, I'm stuck with till I upgrade.

I just feel that if I go for the 4790k I'll be tied into an old socket limiting upgradeability.

 

[g-unit1111]

Thread is from last year. Please don't bump old posts.