- Dec 25, 2011
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Skylake was released today and I wanted to upgrade my system a bit. So before buying stupid things, here is what I plan to do. Please help me improve my idea 
Approximate Purchase Date: This or next month
Budget Range: 1000-1500€
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and Programming (mostly OpenGL4.5), Browsing (Chrome with 50-100 tabs), Photoshop, Blender. All in all I often game, program and browse at the same time on a system with many automated tasks running in the background (AV/AM/AS, Backup, File Indexing,...)
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: CPU, Mobo, RAM (reusing OCZ Fatal!ty 750W PSU)
Do you need to buy OS: No - I want to mainly use Gentoo x64 and dual boot Win10 x64
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: geizhals.de
Location: Germany
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, ASRock Mobo
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Your Monitor Resolution: 3x 1920x1080
Additional Comments:
Why Are You Upgrading: Slow compilation and debugging of larger projects and running out of SATA ports (yeah, I could buy one SSD with more capacity... but my small ones are still working just fine :/ )
Current System / Important Parts:
My Idea:
I want to switch my Ivy Bridge to Skylake. I don't need the iGPU. But I need many cores for multicore compilation. A faster CPU might as well be favorable for debugging. That's why I want to get a i7 with eight cores this time. I might want to overclock it later on (got a liquid cooler in place). Since I like the ASRock support a lot (very quick and professional; had to contact them for various reasons), I would like to buy an ASRock Z170 Fatal!ty Gaming K6 mobo. Additionally, I will have to buy DDR4 RAM. ATM I am a bit uncertain which brand I should choose. As for M.2, I want to go with a Samsung 850 EVO M.2 for root/C:
Also I might upgrade my graphics card later on for 4K/VR. ATM, though, I don't really feel the need as I neither own the hardware necessary nor have many games which make use of it.
During my recherche I read that Haswell-E might be a better choice for computation. But the LGA1151 socket might be more future proof (I don't know if I will buy the next gen after Skylake, though... probably not).
What do you guys think about my plans? Should I upgrade (will I have a noticable speed improvement)? Which CPU should I go with? Should I buy completely different parts or focus on something else?
Approximate Purchase Date: This or next month
Budget Range: 1000-1500€
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and Programming (mostly OpenGL4.5), Browsing (Chrome with 50-100 tabs), Photoshop, Blender. All in all I often game, program and browse at the same time on a system with many automated tasks running in the background (AV/AM/AS, Backup, File Indexing,...)
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: CPU, Mobo, RAM (reusing OCZ Fatal!ty 750W PSU)
Do you need to buy OS: No - I want to mainly use Gentoo x64 and dual boot Win10 x64
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: geizhals.de
Location: Germany
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, ASRock Mobo
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Your Monitor Resolution: 3x 1920x1080
Additional Comments:
Why Are You Upgrading: Slow compilation and debugging of larger projects and running out of SATA ports (yeah, I could buy one SSD with more capacity... but my small ones are still working just fine :/ )
Current System / Important Parts:
■ Intel i5 3570K
■ ASRock P67 Fatal!ty Performance (1 SATA3 and one SATA2 port broken 🙁 )
■ GeiL Black Dragon RAM x4 kit (16GB)
■ MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 4G
My Idea:
I want to switch my Ivy Bridge to Skylake. I don't need the iGPU. But I need many cores for multicore compilation. A faster CPU might as well be favorable for debugging. That's why I want to get a i7 with eight cores this time. I might want to overclock it later on (got a liquid cooler in place). Since I like the ASRock support a lot (very quick and professional; had to contact them for various reasons), I would like to buy an ASRock Z170 Fatal!ty Gaming K6 mobo. Additionally, I will have to buy DDR4 RAM. ATM I am a bit uncertain which brand I should choose. As for M.2, I want to go with a Samsung 850 EVO M.2 for root/C:
Also I might upgrade my graphics card later on for 4K/VR. ATM, though, I don't really feel the need as I neither own the hardware necessary nor have many games which make use of it.
During my recherche I read that Haswell-E might be a better choice for computation. But the LGA1151 socket might be more future proof (I don't know if I will buy the next gen after Skylake, though... probably not).
What do you guys think about my plans? Should I upgrade (will I have a noticable speed improvement)? Which CPU should I go with? Should I buy completely different parts or focus on something else?
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