(i5) Skylake or 4690k

[R9 295X2]

What i5 should i go for?
Skylake is roughly same price but i'd have to then buy more expensive motherboards as well as DDR4.
Is there any benefit or getting skylake then?

[gupsterg]

Only my opinion, formed from just things I thought and not necessarily technical info.

I was building new rig in Jan/Feb15, Skylake / Broadwell was in pipeline but decided to go Z97 / 4690K.

Why?

I thought I'd rather have a mature platform to deal with / use. I couldn't see myself needing some of the benefits Skylake / mobo chipset was bringing to table. Performance on Skylake taking perhaps premium of price at launch made also Z97 / 4690K more appealing.

So far no regrets.

All in all with some savvy buying my {CPU / Mobo / RAM / Cooler} in my sig set me back about £300. 16GB was a bit steeper at that time, I paid £95. The £300 figure is made up from some discounting a) from buying promo prices for item b) cashback via say one of those kinda sites c) selling a bundled item I didn't need with mobo.

[Blackbod]

The I5 6600K is anoticable improvement over an I5 4690k with the witcher 3 having an increase of around 5-6 FPS as well as the new skylake chips being more cool running than devils canyon also there is a promotion on at dabs where you get a free asus cerberus headset with any Maximus VIII ranger or Maximus VIII Hero which is worth £40 this promotion bring the price of skylake down to devils canyon levels

[Dinklegeta]

The biggest differences would be 1. overclocking potential 2. DDR4 RAM and 3. More lanes for all your connected components.

I would say go with what is more affordable for you as a package, Skylake is an improvement but in terms of gaming the difference is pretty minute.

[Stormsys]

DDR3 is on the way out so maybe if your budget allows for it go for skylake as it will give you upgrade room later (without needing cpu + mobo + ram combo).

[cam1986]

Good thread. Often wondered what the OP was asking

[gupsterg]

.... as it will give you upgrade room later (without needing cpu + mobo + ram combo).

To me the only upgrade would seem an owner of a Skylake i5 would do is go i7 and by the time a vastly better CPU is out on the market I'd think CPU + MOBO + RAM would need changing anyhow (generally speaking).

For "future proofing" I always just get a new GPU for a rig. I tend to opt for a CPU which is not a bottleneck for the best GPU in my budget at build time and then opt for GPU upgrades til CPU becomes a bottleneck.

To me it seems as OP is considering a Skylake vs i5 4690K his rig's purpose is gonna be general use/gaming, otherwise it would be Skylake vs i7 4790K, or a more higher end CPU.

[cam1986]

So, Skylake is the better option?

[gupsterg]

Are you saying that due to me stating upgrade path of i7?