I've been looking at refreshing my system as well. I'm not sure why you'd consider a Haswell system over SkyLake?
The price difference between something like an Intel i5-4590 (Haswell) and an Intel i5-6500 (Skylake) is ~$15. And the price difference between 8GB of DDR3 (1600Mhz) and 8GB of DDR4 (2133Mhz) is ~$20 (at least for Kingston). I don't know where you're shopping to see three-fold price differences. On 2 February 2016 at 19:51, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@outlook.com> wrote: > I’m a bit ignorant of this, being a “slow adopter” – so would appreciate > some opinions. > > Apart from being ready for another self-build, a 15yo releative is keen > to build himself a gaming PC that will last a few years [his choice of > graphics card is based on the Nvidia GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 chipset, which is > expensive: the Asus ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970, (Base: 1140MHz, Boost: > 1279MHz), 4096MB (7010MHz) GDDR5, PCIE3.0, Dual DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort i > over $500 at a couple of places I’ve checked]. > > Someone was telling me that the LGA 2011-3 supports both DDR3 and DDR4 > RAM, and there are some motherboards about that have slots for both types > of memory. > > Is that right? > > The socket is used for the Intel Haswell-E and Haswell-EP CPUs. It was > released in 2014 so now there should be some manufacturers supporting > motherboard builds for people like me who would stuff it with DDR3 until > the cost of DDR4 comes down by a factor of 3 or so .. > > > > Ian Thomas > > Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia > > >
