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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%

April 2016

CPU

i7-6700K

484

Mobo

Asus H170M-PLUS

165 (H170 PRO GAMING would be a solid choice too, at $214)

RAM

16gb of DDR4 2133MHz or whatever, eg. Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8gb kit

112

SSD

Samsung 950 Pro M.2 256G

265

Case

Fractal Design Define R5

145

PSU

Corsair RMx something

150

OS

Windows 10 Home/Pro

137/199

Using my existing GPU, that's a total of 1458 for the cheaper choices, and 1569 for the expensive ones (Windows Pro and Gaming mobo).

MeidokonWiki: furinkan/PC_upgrade_speccing_20151112 (last edited 2016-10-24 11:53:42 by furinkan)