Haswell or Skylake CPU for my HTC Vive VR headset?

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What CPU will work best with my Nvidia GeForce GTX 980. Haswell or Skylake? Keep in mind I just blew a month's worth of pay on my current setup plus the Rift so I'm not looking to spend too much.

Right now I'm running an i5-2400. The cheapest of the i5's. Not sure if it's bottlenecking or not but I still want something at least Haswell to complement the GPU and use it's full potential. Is it worth the $200+ upgrading or will I not even notice the difference?

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Synthetic

Inspiring

8088 processor for Vive.... plenty

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Stairmand

Inspiring

If you are going to upgrade from a Sandy Bridge CPU there is no reason not to get Skylake. You'd be nut to buy Haswell at this point IMO.

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GhettoNinja06Author

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Stairmand said:

If you are going to upgrade from a Sandy Bridge CPU there is no reason not to get Skylake. You'd be nut to buy Haswell at this point IMO.

Well a good reason not to get the Skylake is the fact the GTX 1080 comes out next week. What are your thoughts? Keep my Sandy Bridge and get the GTX 1080?

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GhettoNinja06Author

Up and Coming

Or would my i5-2400 be bottlenecking so hard that I won't see any benefits from the GTX 1080?

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novyigod

New Participant

Skylake 100%
To Ghetto - yes, it will.
Also I do like the new DJI Mavic 2 Zoom drone. It will release in a matter of few weeks and its priced for $999.

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Nelsan

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Its all about the price. Skylake is 10% faster (DDR4-3000 or better). I got my Haswell i5 System with about 25% rabatt.

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tommet

Inspiring

IMO, It's not really about Skylake vs Haswell - it's more about the bandwidth available on the motherboard chipset. Although it's an oversimplification think 20 PCI 3.0 lanes on Z170 vs 8 PCI 2.0 on Z97. Currently performance will be pretty similar, but down the road I think a Skylake/z170 setup will buy you more years than a Haswell/z97 will at this point.

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