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- Jul 7, 2013
So I'm planning an upgrade to Skylake with my computer, just so I'm up to date somewhat with CPU architecture. The one snag I'm having is for the time being, I can only spend what I get out of selling my current Haswell rig. My current CPU is an i5-4460, and with the budget of what I make off of the central components of this computer (CPU, board, RAM, and a couple of hard drives), the furthest I can go right now is an i3-6100. I'm wondering if, given the new architecture, smaller lithography, and the fact it has hyperthreading, if the 6100 would still be able to keep up to pace at least fairly decently with my current CPU? This is both a luxury and work upgrade, I'll upgrade the GPU later on, but still a bit of a necessity on the work front.