Z97 or Z170, gaming CPU deliberations?

[coiler]

Which would you buy and why?

I'm thinking the 4590 with the 3.7 turbo be the best bang for the quid...



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[andyn]

Value for money Haswell, or get on the current upgrade trail with Skylake. If I were buying now I would go for skylake for DDR4 future proofing I think, but I'm sure haswell will do fine, I'm still rocking sandybridge!

[coiler]

FO4 all the ultra OCD.

I could just drop godrays to low this evening, and shadow quality to low/medium and see how it goes. Auto detects to high preset, which has many things on ultra, full AA/AF etc, could also drop the other settings to high.

Any excuse to force my hand on an upgrade I guess

[Moonchester]

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...roductId=64165
looks good bang ofr buck on current gen

[Bravetart]

I ended up buying a 6700 (non-K) in my ITX build. Not sure if I'll see any major real world difference from my 2500K @ 4.5GHz but should be a lot more efficient

It was cheaper than the current price by £20 though.

[Bravetart]

Should add, my main reason was the lower power draw in comparison to the K version. It boosts to 4GHz, which is more than ample for gaming. I thought about the 6400 or 6600 but got a bit power hungry. I think I mostly wanted it to feel like an upgrade from Sandybridge

[BigIan88]

Id go for the 4690K myself, keep it cool and calm for a while and if you need the extra computing power and can spare the power draw - OC the nads off it for free gainzzzzzzzzz

[luke22]

no point not going skylake now really. infact you would be stupid to not get the next batch of goodies it brings to the table today.

[TheMadDutchDude]

Agreed. Pointless going to a completely dead end platform to save a few pennies.

[luke22]

if you want bang per buck haswell and ivy 2nd hand is the way to go...

[BigIan88]

I might be tempted to upgrade from my i7 3770k after xmas

[coiler]

Thanks for thoughts, going to stick with the Q9550 now

FO4 ultra'd out, and simply dropped godrays to low, and shadows + shadow distance to medium. Perma butter 60 now.

[Moonchester]

You want that DDR2 RAM then Coiler? )

[luke22]

Thanks for thoughts, going to stick with the Q9550 now

FO4 ultra'd out, and simply dropped godrays to low, and shadows + shadow distance to medium. Perma butter 60 now.

yea, dont count if it aint 4k baby

[BigIan88]

Still preferred gaming in 1440p myself as its a nice step up visually and performance was still solid.

That'll change when cards come out that can cope with 4K properly though