Upgrade or stay

[Tooulas]

Hi there
I have a question about my new upgrade on my rig. Right now i have a pent. G3258 on an msi b85m-e45 and 16gb ram. Now i want to buy a gtx 1060 and one cpu and i am thinking about i5 4690k or 6600k. With 6600k i will need new mboard and new ram and with 4690k i will need a new mboard so i can overclock it and the new mboard i am searching also has sli support. What do you think should i jump to skylake or stay on haswell? I think stay on haswell

 

[uberman]

That 4690 is still a great cpu.Its not really that huge of an upgrade to skylake . Just stay with that and save some bucks as it will be good for quite awhile and by then there will be something that is a real upgrade.

 

[Obakasama]

Sounds like you plan to eventually go relatively high end.

The one comment I will make is in response to SLI you mention. If memory serves the GTX 1060 isn't supposed to SLI. Plus SLI support for games is sketchy; some argue it isn't worthwhile.

 

[synphul]

Currently only the 1070, 1080 and 1080ti are sli capable. Nvidia took that off of the 1060's and below. Rather than spend on a 4690k and a new motherboard (which means a reinstall of windows) along with a decent aftermarket cooler just to oc the i5, why not keep your motherboard and consider a xeon 1231v3 or 4790k.

The xeon costs only slightly more than a 4690k, similar clock speeds with hyper threading so for games that make better use of an i7's hyper threading, the xeon performs similarly.

The 4790k has higher clocks out of the box, 4ghz with a 4.4ghz turbo boost so will act like a mildly overclocked i5 with hyper threading. It costs a bit more but you benefit from ht and higher clocks again without replacing the motherboard.

Either way I think you'd save money or at the very least end up with more performance for the money. An i7 for $340 is still less than a $230-240 i5 + motherboard + ram (and potentially the addition of a cooler if you don't have a decent one). Starting with 6th gen cpu's, the k variations come without any cooler at all.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

the 4790k is the best option imo. i will last a good 2-3 years before becoming obsolete.

regardng sli, do u have a 144hz monitor to make use of those 2 1070 incase u go for them? either way, replacing them is better. gets rid of the excess heat and increased power draw. u thought abt ur psu too for the sli?