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If you care about spending an extra $30 on a CPU cooler, I'd say Skylake is definitely not for you. If you're getting Skylake for gaming you should probably be
by cdr 11y ago
If you care about spending an extra $30 on a CPU cooler, I'd say Skylake is definitely not for you.
If you're getting Skylake for gaming you should probably be planning to drop $400 (or more for a bigger size) on an Intel 750 SSD.
- talmand 11y agoWhen pricing on a budget, yes, $30 can be a big deal. Let's see, $250 CPU + $30 cooler (realistically, should be higher) versus $200 CPU that suits my needs just fine. Gives me an extra $80 to maybe upgrade elsewhere that might make a bigger difference to my goals. Why exactly is a $400 SSD suggested to go with Skylake for gaming? Why not a $100 SSD? What does the size of the SDD have to do with Skylake? I'm failing to understand your point.
- cdr 11y agoIf you're not interested in spending the money to get top-tier performance, there's absolutely no reason to buy Skylake right now. The Intel 750 is NVMe, the next generation of storage interface. The 750 can outperform a SATA SSD by 10x in reads, and even versus an outstanding SATA SSD will get you at least a 4x increase. Load times are actually pretty important for games, and after a GPU I don't think there's anywhere you could spend extra that would give you more quality of life. You'd already be looking at $250 for a similarly-sized high-performance SATA SSD, so the price difference isn't that large. You aren't getting high performance even as far as SATA for $100.
- talmand 11y agoI cannot disagree, I think that you actually supported my point for the most part.