My system is a I7 920 (1366 chipset overclock to 3.8ghz)Running dual 970 with one at X16 and other at X8 pci. Have been waiting for broadwell cpu's ( X99 chipset) but have heard skylake will be out at end of this year with new chipset (x100) and motherboards. Is it worth waiting for skylake if I have upgrade motherboard and memory any way? Maybe ddr4 memory will be lower then?

What are your thoughts.

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For SETI one of your 970s will be doing far more work than your CPU, probably a factor of 4 or five more. So changing CPU will only have a marginal effect here. For other work, and gaming, the situation may well be totally different.

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I would wait for the lower cost of DDR4 alone. Then I would wait for the comparison of broadwell and skylake.

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I got a couple of Haswell-E's to replace a couple of i7-970's and I am somewhat underwhelmed by the performance boost. I would have thought going from a 1st generation i7 to a 5th generation (or maybe it should be called 4.5) would have given better, but it didn't. My advice is to wait.

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BOINC blog

The focus of newer generations of the Core line of processors is not specifically speed.

Intel is looking at the direction of tech and its devices. That device market is portables, such as, Cell Phones, Tablets, Laptop, Watches, SoC devices we haven't even thought of yet.

Smaller, cooler and lower power is the focus to drive all of these devices. However, each generation is marginally faster due optimizations.

"The first SKUs won’t be unlocked, so desktop enthusiasts may choose to wait for the Skylake-K variant, coming in 2016."

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/194925-intels-comprehensive-roadmap-update-4g-tablets-skylake-on-track-for-h2-2015

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You could always upgrade to a Xeon x5650 or higher (in that series). Check eBay. Then, goto Skylake after you've seen the reviews.

Unable to get this chip from newegg. Why whould I spend money money on 2.66 ghz chip and motherboard this old?. Would go for a haswell e chip. if I had known that the broadwell or skylake whould just be a chip change. Since broadwell to skylake is not just a chip change but a whole motherboard upgrade. I am looking for the old days where you just changed the cpu. I have to upgrade to new bois and x99 or X100 and ddr4 anyways. So new motherboard and memory and drives are required. I have a copy of windows 8.1 and since it will be a free upgrade to windows 10. Is it cost effective to go to broadwell with a motherboard and chipset that will not handle skylake. Skylake will be out within 3-6 months on broadwell.

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