Mostly for gaming or...?

sidefx:

 

Mostly for gaming or...?

 

Yeah gaming, general stuff as well. I like a fast computer. 

Fair enough, don't we all!  I haven't been keeping up with recent CPU releases, but my first instinct for gaming is always to focus on upgrading GPU first,  and not so much CPU\mobo\RAM.  

sidefx:

 

Fair enough, don't we all!  I haven't been keeping up with recent CPU releases, but my first instinct for gaming is always to focus on upgrading GPU first,  and not so much CPU\mobo\RAM.  

 

 

 

I have a GTX1070 :) 

What no 1080? :p 

For pricecheck on those I'd estimate somewhere around $550, but again I haven't been keeping up with second hand prices so take with a grain of salt - that's just based on the 70% rule and the price of the 6600K which seems to perform similarly to the 4770K, combined with a similar mobo of the current gen + RAM. 

Is it worth upgrading?  Not sure... but have you considered trying NVMe instead if you haven't already got one? ;-)

If you are mostly using for gaming you will see no tangible benefit to that upgrade in 99.9% of games and perhaps a handful of FPS in the remaining 0.1!

As above, better spending the money on an upgrade to a GTX1080 (even then the gains would not be massive for 1080p @60FPS...more worth it at >1440p and higher framerates or for VR) or save it towards the inevitable GTX1080Ti in the coming months.

If it is just wanting the knowledge that your PC is benchmarkably quick compared to the average performer, then fair enough - I can understand that.

:)

joker97:

 

Is it worth upgrading? Probably not. Haswell to Skylake = meh. It's been power saving all the way since then. I'd wait for 7700K if I were you.

 

It's interesting. I have a customer who's 1 gen old laptop was stolen and replaced with this generation. On paper it's not much faster, but use it and it's INSANELY faster. Just stupidly stupidly quick compared to his old one. 

I have a few stories like that from current gen CPU machines. 

Maybe due to the insanely fast SSD speeds nowadays definitely not the CPU. It's about 10% per generation. Haswell-> Skylake is 2 gen, 121%. HDD -> PCI-e M.2 SSD I dare say 2500%

networkn:

 

It's interesting. I have a customer who's 1 gen old laptop was stolen and replaced with this generation. On paper it's not much faster, but use it and it's INSANELY faster. Just stupidly stupidly quick compared to his old one. 

 

I have a few stories like that from current gen CPU machines. 

 

 

 

Intrigued by that - what activities is that increase apparent in?

The only times I have really felt that general desktop computing activities have sped up exponentially is in moving from platter to SSD and then to faster SSDs... Even encoding/ripping video doesn't seem to speed up too much over the last few CPU generations seeing as so much of it can be offloaded on the GPU

joker97:

 

Maybe due to the insanely fast SSD speeds nowadays definitely not the CPU. It's about 10% per generation. Haswell-> Skylake is 2 gen, 121%. HDD -> PCI-e M.2 SSD I dare say 2500%

 

The prior generations all had SSD's too. 

could be SATA vs PCI SSD though

there is approximately 20% difference in performance between the CPU's weather its worth the cost only you could answer that.

you do get M.2 PCI SSD support with the Z170 board and USB A and USB C ports

joker97:

 

Is it worth upgrading? Probably not. Haswell to Skylake = meh. It's been power saving all the way since then. I'd wait for 7700K if I were you.

 

Which is out when and uses what chipset? Still DDR4?

Sorry don't know if it's out. Googling its release date leads to dead ends. DDR4 yes but if it's like Skylake it'll be in dual channel which is just fine that means you only need to buy 2 of the same sticks vs 4.

ah apparently 5 Jan 2017 ...