[TC] Gaming Forums

Hello all,

I'm looking to update my PC to the new Skylake Intel CPU which means me buying the following within a £300-£500 budget:

• CPU (i5 / i7 Skylake)
• Motherboard (DDR4, Socket 1151)
• RAM (DDR4)
  

---

The CPU has a £110 difference in price tag between the i7 and i5, here are the stats of them both: (Not looking to overclock)

(£269.99) Intel Core Skylake Processor i7-6700/3.4 GHz (Turbo Boost 4.0 GHz) 4 Core 8MB Cache Socket 1151

(£157.13) Intel Processor Core Skylake I 5-6400/2.7 GHz (Turbo Boost 3.3 GHz) - 4 cores 6MB Cache Socket 1151

---

The Motherboard I have been looking at is the:

(£131.33) MSI Z170A Gaming M5 its stats are:

Supports 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
Supports DDR4-3600+(OC) Memory
DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
USB 3.1 Gen2 2X FASTER: USB 3.1 Gen2 offers performance twice as fast as a regular USB 3.0 connection
Twin Turbo M.2 64Gb/s + Turbo U.2 ready + USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C + Type-A combo + SATA 6Gb/s

---

I'm currently unsure on what DDR4 Ram to get. I've heard good things about HyperX and G.Skill ram sets. I'm looking for a total of 16GB no more.

---

Thanks for reading. If you have any insight on products that you think I could change or if the i7 is really worth paying an extra £110 for over the i5.

Cheers,
~Bez

In my opinion unless you are doing video editing go for the i5

i5 6500 and HyperX.

Just ordered:

• Intel Core Skylake i5-6500
• DDR4 HyperX Fury Black Series 2 x 8GB (16GB) 2133 MHz
• MSI Z170A Gaming M5 Motherboard
  

Going to wait until Black Friday to order my 980Ti

Good Upgrade.
Wait, 980Ti? Really you want any games? you need i7 6700. lol...

980Ti Such OP.

i5 Should be good enough. I've never really seen the need of using i7's for gaming..

Save your money and get a 970, the 980ti will be bottlenecked by the i5 and i7 due to its immense power at 1080p