Best time to buy a skylake bundle

[huckleberryhound]

Hi guys.

Now that the kaby lake has come out, is it worth waiting a while to see if the skylake comes down in price?

I'm currently rocking an i7 950 from about 6 years back. It still holds up in most games, but i found my rig dropping frames while playing biohazard 7. Now it was no biggie, i just had to drop some of the graphic quality, but it has got me thinking about upgrading my rig.

I was thinking about buying a skylake bundle, and adding it to my current rig. I have a gtx 780, but i will be looking to get an asus turbo 1070 at some point.

with the 2080 coming out, and the 7700k, surely a wait could save me a couple of hundred euros...right?

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

It's always worth waiting for the price to drop, and evidently it seems to have been affected already. The 1070o will make the biggest difference in any case, a lot more than an i7 950. A jump to a 7700k would get you 5-10 fps at the most, but that's just from the benchmarks I've seen.

I'm pretty much in the same boat, but I jumped the gun and got the 1060 first, and still with a 6 year old i5. I doubt the Skylakes will drop much more than they have already, because the Kaby lake is more of a revision than a whole new architecture. So you might as well take the dive now, gonna new new motherboard and RAM anyway.

You'll save a bit of money having waited this long, but a couple hundred euros.....naaah maybe not that much.

 

[gsilver]

I've already seen the 7700k go on sale for $310.
Jump on it when you see it go for around that price.

The next node shrink is a long way off...


But, seriously, the video card is a much better investment.