Really good deal it seems. Good price for the motherboard alone let alone the free memory. Good savings here for anyone building a Skylake PC soon.
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Goose522 to titchyyyyy
29 Feb 1620#4
Sandybridge till i die! This 2500k is immortal
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LewsTherin
29 Feb 16#1
Hot. Though Skylake Cpus are a questionable upgrade for those with Haswell even...
stothy
29 Feb 16#2
But future proof for sure.
titchyyyyy
29 Feb 161#3
This is gonna sell out quick. Very hot price!
I upgraded from Sandybridge to Skylake and I would never go back! Massive upgrade.
Goose522 to titchyyyyy
29 Feb 1620#4
Sandybridge till i die! This 2500k is immortal
Chuggee
29 Feb 16#5
For a quad core it is, the 5820K is a timely upgrade over it however.
imdurc
29 Feb 16#6
Just a small note, the reviews I'm reading show the performance to be a bit lower than other boards. Seems to be a budget board, so it might not be the best bargain in the long run. EDIT: Forgot to mention, it doesn't appear to do SLI, etc.
At £285, and as good as it is, I think I'll skip that chip.
adam45417
29 Feb 16#7
Their delivery price is a joke.
fadsarmy to adam45417
1 Mar 16#43
It's free for loyal forum members.
Nate1492
29 Feb 16#8
The 5820k is a very poor upgrade path.
It costs the same price for the CPU as the i7 6700 and performs behind the Skylake in pretty much all games.
The 6700k bests it in some synthetic multicore benches too, as long as you pair it with decent RAM.
Not to mention the motherboards for the x99 are far more expensive, and you don't get the iGPU, which actually has some great uses for transcoding/encoding.
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I upgraded from Sandybridge to Skylake and I would never go back! Massive upgrade.
At £285, and as good as it is, I think I'll skip that chip.
It costs the same price for the CPU as the i7 6700 and performs behind the Skylake in pretty much all games.
The 6700k bests it in some synthetic multicore benches too, as long as you pair it with decent RAM.
Not to mention the motherboards for the x99 are far more expensive, and you don't get the iGPU, which actually has some great uses for transcoding/encoding.
And this is kinda fun... http://www.techspot.com/news/63418-weekend-tech-reading-core-i7-6700k-oced-7ghz.html
Anyway, my point is, if you have to buy a new CPU+Mobo+Ram, go for the 6700k.
If you want an upgrade for the i5 2500k, stick with the 1150 socket and get the 4790k that is floating around... Or just wait longer.