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How much for a Skylake-based system? Very rough and ready component selection from MSY and PC Case Gear.

CPU

i5 6600 (modest)

325

CPU

i7 6700K (one-off cost for ongoing performance)

519

Mobo

Asus H170-PLUS

169 (H170 PRO GAMING would be a solid choice too, at $230)

RAM

16gb of DDR4 2400MHz or whatever

150

SSD

Samsung 850 EVO M.2 120G/250G/500G

99 / 135 / 243

Case

Antec P280

169

PSU

whatever

100

OS

Windows 10

???

If you want to cheap out a bit, you can tweak a few little things:

Choice of CPU

Current socket is LGA-1151.

i7-6700 = 3.4 GHz + 3/4/5/6 boost increments, TDP of 65W i7-6700K = 4.0 GHz + 0/0/0/2 boost increments, TDP of 91W

i7-6700

i7-6700K

Advantage

Base clock MHz

3400

4000

17.6%

4 cores active

3700

4000

8.1%

3 cores active

3800

4000

5.2%

2 cores active

3900

4000

2.5%

1 core active

4000

4200

5.0%

MeidokonWiki: furinkan/PC_upgrade_speccing_20151112 (last edited 2016-02-28 23:52:56 by furinkan)