Happy new year everyone!
My current PC purchased in February 2010 has been dieing for over a year and I think it is finally time to replace.
The current relevant specs are: ASUS P6T ATX Motherboard (some of the RAM slots are probably dead), i7 960, GTX 660 (from December 2013) 6 x 2GB OCZ Platinum 1333 7-7-7 RAM (some of which is probably dead), Corsair HX750 PSU, Seagate 500GB HDD, WD 1TB HDD, Antec nine hundred Mid tower.
The main uses for this PC are gaming (Civilization 5, League of Legends, and strategy games mostly), internet browsing, and Netflix. I currently have a 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor and no immediate plans to change this.
I would like to get a PC that is physically somewhat smaller then my current one, and is still strong for gaming. My short-term plan is to build a PC without a new graphics card and just use my GTX660 until I can see what the summer brings as far as new GPUs. I will probably also cannibalize the 1TB WD HDD from my old PC as a storage drive.
The two builds I am looking at are here:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/ZZKvP6 (Skylake)
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/H2fQpg (Haswell)
The builds both use the Cooler Master N200 micro ATX case, Seasonic S12II 620W PSU, GTX 660, Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD, and Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO heat sink.
The builds differ in that the Haswell build has an i5-4690, ASUS H97M-E Micro ATX mobo, and G.Skill Ripjaws X 2 x 8GB DDR3, while the Skylake build has an i5-6600, Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX, and G.Skill Ripjaws V 2 x 8GB DDR4.
I chose the processors as hyperthreading seems useless for gaming, so the i7 cpus are not worthwhile, and I do not want to overclock to a K-series is not worth the extra money. I am planning on buying an aftermarket cooler as I hope it will run somewhat quieter then the stock.
The motherboard choice for the skylake build is the cheapest mATX mobo on Newegg that has USB 3.1 ports.
From what I can tell, DDR4 vs. DDR3 is basically irelevent to performance at this point, and the 4690 benchmarks basically the same as the 6600, so there doesn't seem to be anything performance-wise separating the two builds.
The main advantage of the Skylake build seems to be that it has two USB 3.1 ports for any future devices that might use that connector. This could be useful, but I presume that adapters will exist fairly easily if I need them at some point.
Based on buying everything off of Newegg.ca, the price difference between the builds is about $105 CAD (Skylake is more), so I am currently leaning towards going with the Haswell build.
Is there anything that I have overlooked in either the two builds on their own, or the comparison between them, that I should fix before buying, or consider before making a decision to go with the Haswell build?
Thanks!
My current PC purchased in February 2010 has been dieing for over a year and I think it is finally time to replace.
The current relevant specs are: ASUS P6T ATX Motherboard (some of the RAM slots are probably dead), i7 960, GTX 660 (from December 2013) 6 x 2GB OCZ Platinum 1333 7-7-7 RAM (some of which is probably dead), Corsair HX750 PSU, Seagate 500GB HDD, WD 1TB HDD, Antec nine hundred Mid tower.
The main uses for this PC are gaming (Civilization 5, League of Legends, and strategy games mostly), internet browsing, and Netflix. I currently have a 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor and no immediate plans to change this.
I would like to get a PC that is physically somewhat smaller then my current one, and is still strong for gaming. My short-term plan is to build a PC without a new graphics card and just use my GTX660 until I can see what the summer brings as far as new GPUs. I will probably also cannibalize the 1TB WD HDD from my old PC as a storage drive.
The two builds I am looking at are here:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/ZZKvP6 (Skylake)
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/H2fQpg (Haswell)
The builds both use the Cooler Master N200 micro ATX case, Seasonic S12II 620W PSU, GTX 660, Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD, and Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO heat sink.
The builds differ in that the Haswell build has an i5-4690, ASUS H97M-E Micro ATX mobo, and G.Skill Ripjaws X 2 x 8GB DDR3, while the Skylake build has an i5-6600, Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX, and G.Skill Ripjaws V 2 x 8GB DDR4.
I chose the processors as hyperthreading seems useless for gaming, so the i7 cpus are not worthwhile, and I do not want to overclock to a K-series is not worth the extra money. I am planning on buying an aftermarket cooler as I hope it will run somewhat quieter then the stock.
The motherboard choice for the skylake build is the cheapest mATX mobo on Newegg that has USB 3.1 ports.
From what I can tell, DDR4 vs. DDR3 is basically irelevent to performance at this point, and the 4690 benchmarks basically the same as the 6600, so there doesn't seem to be anything performance-wise separating the two builds.
The main advantage of the Skylake build seems to be that it has two USB 3.1 ports for any future devices that might use that connector. This could be useful, but I presume that adapters will exist fairly easily if I need them at some point.
Based on buying everything off of Newegg.ca, the price difference between the builds is about $105 CAD (Skylake is more), so I am currently leaning towards going with the Haswell build.
Is there anything that I have overlooked in either the two builds on their own, or the comparison between them, that I should fix before buying, or consider before making a decision to go with the Haswell build?
Thanks!
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