Is it worth it to build a gaming pc now or wait till next year?

[EvilGummyBearXD]

I've been doing some research on the new processors coming out early next year. I want to build a pc this year, since I don't have a good one to play games with my friends on. My question is, should I even be worried about not getting one of the new processor but getting an i5 6500 or i5 6600 with an RX 480 or GTX 1060 with both 16 GB of RAM? I would like to be able to play not the really the triple A titles but games like DayZ, Arma 3, Skyrim, Fallout, Rust, Ark, GTA V , and some games like the Division. I do get that the AMD Zen is going to be a new socket but I didn't see what the i7 processor would be. I'm fairly new to the whole computer thing as I've been asking a ton of questions on here.

 

[logainofhades]

I wouldn't worry about the new Intel chips coming out. They will not be much different, performance wise, than what we have now. If you keep waiting on the next thing, you will be waiting forever.

 

[EvilGummyBearXD]

I wouldn't worry about the new Intel chips coming out. They will not be much different, performance wise, than what we have now. If you keep waiting on the next thing, you will be waiting forever.

What about the next AMD one?

 

[dangus]

intel's Kaby Lake desktop processors will be out in january (i think thats what i read). most people just interested in getting a gaming PC up and running won't see a big difference between Skylake and Kaby Lake. but since AMD is also supposedly releasing Zen in january Intel may choose to do something crazy to try and stuff AMD back into their hole (most likely not). i always say that unless something is DEFINITELY on the horizon in the near near future and there is hard data to support it's going to be great, just go ahead and get what you can afford now and enjoy playing your games. waiting for "the next big thing" usually never ends up being worth it.

 

[EvilGummyBearXD]

intel's Kaby Lake desktop processors will be out in january (i think thats what i read). most people just interested in getting a gaming PC up and running won't see a big difference between Skylake and Kaby Lake. but since AMD is also supposedly releasing Zen in january Intel may choose to do something crazy (most likely not). i always say that unless something is DEFINITELY on the horizon in the near near future and there is hard data to support it's going to be great, just go ahead and get what you can afford now and enjoy playing your games. waiting for "the next big thing" usually never ends up being worth it.

Alright so just go with the build I was going to go with?

 

[dangus]

I wouldn't worry about the new Intel chips coming out. They will not be much different, performance wise, than what we have now. If you keep waiting on the next thing, you will be waiting forever.

What about the next AMD one?

no one really has any hard evidence that they will be good or bad. thats a question no one really knows quite yet. AMD is having some advanced preview Dec. 13th for Zen but we still don't know what they're actually going to show/tell us about it.