Should I wait for Skylake 2016?

[TheOnlyShad0w]

I've been waiting for almost a year now to build a new gaming rig and I want to get the best processor for my money. I was hoping last year's Skylake would be a bigger leap than it was but I was told that the tock model this year would be bigger so I've been waiting for that.

Is that an unwise decision? Should I maybe go with one of the Broadwell-E processors that recently came out?

I'd like to spend somewhere between $300-400. I'll be doing photo editing, video editing, and gaming (with a GTX 1080).

Thanks in advance!

 

[captaincharisma]

i would go for the i5 66600K right now. it has all the ghz and quality cores you need

 

[TheOnlyShad0w]

i would go for the i5 66600K right now. it has all the ghz and quality cores you need

Why would you pick that over the 6700k?

 

[captaincharisma]

i would go for the i5 66600K right now. it has all the ghz and quality cores you need

Why would you pick that over the 6700k?

just my preference, but go for the 6700K if you have the cash

 

[Hlsgsz]

5820k or 6900k. Whicchever one you can afford. No sense in waiting. Nothing earthshattering on teh horizon.

 

[Technologify]

Go with the i7-6950X if you can afford it

 

[Hlsgsz]

Go with the i7-6950X if you can afford it

No.

 

[Eximo]

Ah, but there won't be a tock this year. Intel abandoned that concept. They are now on a three phase approach.

[Haswell (22nm), Haswell Refresh (22nm), Broadwell (14nm)]
[Skylake (14nm), Skylake Refresh (14nm), Cannonlake (10nm)]

[Haswell E (22nm), Haswell EP (22nm), Broadwell E (14nm)]
[Skylake E (14nm)]
(If they do Skylake E it will have the same perks as the Skylake Refresh which will be available for the 200 series chipset, so there may be a new X class chipset coming with them)

If you are just gaming, get the chip now. If you want more features, wait a bit. I am moderately interested in 3D Xpoint and persistent memory, myself. Kind of hoping for a hybrid myself. But we'l see what they come up with. Got AMD adding SSDs as addressable memory on GPUs already. Some new things are finally happening beyond just faster storage.

But until then my i7-4770k is going to be just fine.

There is no reason to pick up an Extreme processor unless you are doing actual profit generating work and every second counts. It is a huge investment for little return over the ones with two less cores.

 

[Vitric9]

Intel has a new release cycle that is no longer called Tick-Tock Model. So now it is more like Process - Architecture - Optimization. With that Intel will be refreshing the LGA 1151 platform with Kaby Lake and possibly one more with Desktop skus. But as far as i know Kaby lake will be the Optimization part of this new model. Much like the Haswell Refresh we saw 2 years ago with the i7 4790k(and others)
As good as the i5 6600k is we might see one slightly better for the same price (hopeful)

 

[synphul]

Others are correct, intel's tick-tock approach has been expanded to a 3 phase rather than 2 phase alternating model. Skylake 'refresh' might be worthwhile but typically the die shrinks aren't a performance booster, more an efficiency rework. Ivy bridge, broadwell, cannonlake are all efficiency bumps, sandy bridge, haswell/devil's canyon (haswell refresh) and skylake/skylake refresh are the performance bumps.

Waiting for something better will be a perpetual cycle. If those who bought sandy bridge 2500k's had just waited another 5yrs, they could have bought the skylake 6600k. If those who had pentium 2's had just waited instead of buying core 2 duo's, they could have bought sandy bridge and the core "i" series.

 

[Vitric9]

Go with the i7-6950X if you can afford it

good stuff. p