Skylake 6700k or stay with 4770k

[colt1911]

Now that Intel has released the 6700k would it be time to upgrade from current system or stay where I'm at for now. I don't overclock so I'm trying to choose
the best I can without breaking the bank. All I do is play games and do some photo rendering. Thanks for any advice.

 

[tachi1247]

Probably not worth it.

You could probably OC your current processor to get close to or equal the performance you would gain, but even that probably won't be too noticeable.

 

[Woomack]

For sure it's not worth to upgrade. You will see ( in best case ) 5% performance gain average ... in benchmarks as in everything else you won't see any difference. For your needs simply skip 1 or 2 generations as I doubt that next gen will bring more than 10% performance gain.

 

[colt1911]

So even switching to DDR4 memory won't improve performance at this time.

 

[Janus67]

Not really.

 

[EarthDog]

Not worth it from a 4770K, no way. DDR4 yields little gains in the vast majority of testing.