PC Upgrade time!

[[TC]►Bez◄]

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)
  

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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

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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

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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.

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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

[Owl]

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

[GT4tube]

i5 6500 and HyperX.

[[TC]►Bez◄]

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

[GT4tube]

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

980Ti Such OP.

[[TC]►Bez◄]

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

[Owl]

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