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Re: New build- suggestions / ideas?

February 20th, 2016 07:51 PM

I was only intending to point out some considerations that may be worth looking into. My system still is running off the 3570k I installed when I built the system 3 years ago. As far as I know the bottleneck is still the GPU (GTX970) when you're talking about gaming.

Also, the fact that a 4790k isn't worthless compared to a 6700k might say something about how much consumers have noticed the improvements.

The following articles cover a bit of the improvements that have been made since Ivy Bridge (2012-2013) CPUs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswel...rchitecture%29 2013-2014: Mostly power/performance optimization, 5-10% performance gains compared to Ivy Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadw...rchitecture%29 2014-2015: move to 14 nm; performance estimates not given

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylak...rchitecture%29 2015-now: DDR4 support, other improved interfaces

I would do anything you can to equip the system with at least a 256 GB SSD. Any time you need to read/write a lot of files an SSD will win by a large margin.