Haswell vs Sandylake

[B2Blain]

I am planning on building a new system. I noticed that the Sandylake processors are competitive with the Haswells - 4690k vs 6600k, both running at 3.5 GHz. Other than future proofing your mobo, there doesn't seem to be any advantage in getting a 6600k.

 

The 4690k seems to have slight advantage in single thread performance.

 

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2570&cmp%5B%5D=2284

 

Any opinions?

[Demon_]

They use a static benchmark, instead of a real life test. To test the performance of a cpu in DCS, used DCS.

See the difference with DCS as a benchmark. 56 vs 52. Both cpu are excellent.

 

It's like, test your Mustang on a dyno instead of a drag race.

[Gladman]

Given the chart above and what I've read you should go with the less expensive option. The 4690K is more than enough for DCS. Now if your doing other things like video editing its a different conversation.

[King_Hrothgar]

My 4690 (vanilla, not overclocked) is no where near maxed for DCS on any single thread in any mission in SP or MP I've played so far. This includes DCS 2.0 with some fairly big missions (100+ infantry vs 100+ infantry + 20-30 tanks on each side + dozens of aircraft). My GPU may grind to a halt in that scenario, but the I5 4690 does just fine.

 

So with that out of the way, this is a question of do you currently have a 4690 or not? If so, an "upgrade" really isn't worth the trouble, nevermind the $450 for CPU + Mobo + Win 10. But if you're building from scratch and need all that stuff anyways, I recommend the newer one. The price difference is trivial ($220 vs $240 for CPU), so you might as well go with the newer model. Mobo prices are about the same too as is the RAM. The RAM is where you may ultimately save some money, as that should replaced DDR3 in the next couple years. So if you do go with the newer setup, you might be able to recycle the DDR4 while the DDR3 would have to be replaced.

 

Just so you know where I'm viewing this from, my specs are as follows:

CPU: I5-4690 (not the k)

GPU: GTX 770 2GB OC (current bottleneck)

RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC2400

OS: Win 10

[B2Blain]

My 4690 (vanilla, not overclocked) is no where near maxed for DCS on any single thread in any mission in SP or MP I've played so far. This includes DCS 2.0 with some fairly big missions (100+ infantry vs 100+ infantry + 20-30 tanks on each side + dozens of aircraft). My GPU may grind to a halt in that scenario, but the I5 4690 does just fine.

 

So with that out of the way, this is a question of do you currently have a 4690 or not? If so, an "upgrade" really isn't worth the trouble, nevermind the $450 for CPU + Mobo + Win 10. But if you're building from scratch and need all that stuff anyways, I recommend the newer one. The price difference is trivial ($220 vs $240 for CPU), so you might as well go with the newer model. Mobo prices are about the same too as is the RAM. The RAM is where you may ultimately save some money, as that should replaced DDR3 in the next couple years. So if you do go with the newer setup, you might be able to recycle the DDR4 while the DDR3 would have to be replaced.

 

Just so you know where I'm viewing this from, my specs are as follows:

CPU: I5-4690 (not the k)

GPU: GTX 770 2GB OC (current bottleneck)

RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC2400

OS: Win 10

 

I am building from scratch. I was concerned that maybe there was a drop off in certain functions for DCS 2.0. I did notice the price was pretty much the same.

 

Thanks!

[zxarkov]

Haswell-E is the way to go IMHO. The 2011 socket I believe will be the path future processors should be based on rather than the 1511. It has support for DDR3/DDR4 ram and quad channel operations.

[BitMaster]

I have recently read that intel is baking a new i7 for gamers with the knowlewdge that only very few games use all cores but rather more demand high frequencies.

 

I am curious to see what that will be as they did not go into detail other than end 2016 afair

 

Intel sees their sales numbers and reads forums too ! It is no secret to them that many are holding off just because it's not that much faster to justify the huge expense for a platform change CPU/RAM/MOBO and maybe with X-Point also SSD/RAM etc...

 

Many things in the oven and DDR3/DDR4 as of now is stoneage in 24 month, that's why I would hold off if u can, the new stuff will not work with the old as it used to last couple years.

just what I think is gonna happen next 6-18month

Edited April 9, 2016 by BitMaster